[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has been known to be blood Over bread, men who bled to death, dead Strapped to beds, bombs dynamite lead Money, power, respect, street cred, It's scary aint it? Picture yourself going out as a a Mural, pictures of us painted all over street corners Fans meet to mourn us, while we the coroners tried to warn us So many piggy off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, history in rap, in fact so sad to see us re-enact These tragic events, which us back To where we left of March 9th to come from hard knock lifes And it out of the bottom to hit the spotlights Once the artist, is our lives Cast out for all And he who lasts the longest must be the In this jungle Where this dog eat dog mentality from This origin, is usually originated from cats are starving Or it could just be somebodys aura just horrifies And applies to his persona or the in his entourage That intimidates the to the point You know he's gangster, he aint gotta say shit you just believe it
[ Verse 2 ] [ Trice ]
Since Big taught us niggas to big I'm been about my business then so it aint Cheers It aint how we live, what he said he did it for Brooklyn This I took in, chills through my skin Vicious, experienced in the same sights as him It's excited Obie to write these poems Rolling, going the same shit he spoken Open up my eyes there's no limit in skies When 2 Die was a sick part of my life Pummin .45, plotting to pop my mind Then that eye Jamaican, I'd so many times Rewind Got me to walk a straight and get up on my grind Get up out the system, who could him better signs? No pop of could top Big Poppas rhymes So possibly I'd be popular That's the inspiration I got from my P.I
[ 3 ] [ P Diddy ]
I a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, enter The phenomenal artist of any and all time I a Frankenstein, my designs impressed Backpackers and press who said my house was a Critics lash, I made a fortune of his past an' All is did was a dynasty off of his passion And I'm addressing the absent to who he is The original king of New York Wallace This is a promise on Diddy's I'm a father to and teach ya with all the drama even bother, or repeat All of your albums play to back And I visit your grave our friendships intact An ammaculate concept, extravagant wounds left in my heart, I'm yelling God bless Regardless to yelling that 'east-west' I seen the game loosing, I'm just the reset When the ressurection of you shines through an Lyrical enough, doing the same crown of thorns pay homage, brooklyns finest Wether it's or Harlem it'll be instant stardom, ni99a!