[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has known to be blood shed Over bread, men who have bled to death, Strapped to beds, bite bombs lead Money, power, respect, street cred, It's scary aint it? Picture yourself out as a hero Picth a Mural, pictures of us painted all street corners Fans meet to us, while we meet the coroners Notorious tried to us So many piggy off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, history in rap, in fact It's so sad to see us These tragic events, which us back To we left of March 9th to come from such hard knock lifes And it out of the bottom to hit the spotlights Once the artist, this is our Cast out for all And he who lasts the must be the strongest In this concrete Where dog eat dog mentality comes from This origin, which is originated from cats are starving Or it could just be somebodys aura that horrifies And applies to his persona or the in his entourage That intimidates the to the point You know that he's gangster, he aint gotta say you just believe it
[ Verse 2 ] [ Trice ]
Big taught us niggas to think big I'm been about my business since then so it aint It aint how we live, it's what he he did it for Brooklyn I took in, sent chills through my skin Vicious, I've in the same sights as him It's what excited to write these poems Rolling, through the same shit he spoken up my eyes there's no limit in them skies When Ready 2 Die was a sick of my life that .45, plotting to pop my mind Then that eye Jamaican, I'd so many times Rewind Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my Get up out the system, who could give him better No pop of mine could top Big Poppas So I'd be popular huh? the inspiration I got from my nigga P.I
[ 3 ] [ P Diddy ]
I took a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, The most artist of any and all time I made a Frankenstein, my impressed Backpackers and press who said my was a mess Critics lash, said I made a of his past an' All is did was build a dynasty off of his And I'm addressing the adolesence to who he is The original king of New Christopher Wallace This is a promise on Diddy's I'm a father to ya'll and teach ya with all the even bother, or repeat All of albums play back to back And I visit your grave cause our friendships An ammaculate concept, progress Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yelling God Regardless to critics that 'east-west' I seen the game loosing, I'm just pressing the When the ressurection of you shines an individual enough, doing the same crown of thorns literally I'ma pay homage, finest Wether it's Queens or Harlem be instant stardom, ni99a!