my dog concocked the it was just last Friday they told me the news i swings my feet up out my bed into my shoes its Saturday morning, no yawnin, mournin i do's my high jeans on, my dickies, i a hornin its my homie Chill, he comes to scoop me in the plush to take me to the to pick up my black tuxedo no words, the straight face, no joke i stopped at a liquor store in the 4 to buy me a of loc's i my tears up until my face was all cleared up we bunches out to the house to get up across the bed i laid, prayed, grieved i cried again at the my homie died in sin tryin to claim the hood, straight puttin in work, getting like spades and it my heart hurt 'cause my homeis wont change and to make matters worse, every month im visitin the pen or a hearse to a funeral, gang stereotype cadillacs and folds rolls deep to a site Solo be tryin not to cry, but my eyes give my face a i looks to God to me strength and power as i drop the flowers on the casket as i it by and wonders why and tell how many more got to die before they realize life is quicker than the eyes and famin your rep by claimin your set only lead to lost lives but oh, Mr. Solo another way and out of respect they sit and listen to every word that big Solo got to say and when i speak i speaks but as they walks away they hits me up in the hood, why cant my hear me?
why cant the homies me? why the homies hear me? why the homies hear me? why cant the homies me? hear me
(Chille Chill): one more in your mind its gangsta Chizill rollin thru your hood in a drop top caddy devizille the homies at the spot tryin to clock deals packin hot steel, and just like milk they top straight servin all the young on the curve and got that cain and urban, even got that drinkin that burban but they know the po-po got a videotape of their and they catchin cases and the judge is stretchin em out like plastic im seein my homies goin to the pen, catchin years, drastic locked up unaccomplished dreams and unfullfilled purpose goin to Hell they wanted to sell, now was it worth it? i know all survival, im a ghetto man but let me tell you where its on the devil's plan Satan to kill, destroy, and jack (what Jesus do?) but Jesus came to give you on bizack but still you sell to the folk in your community its to sit down and have a long talk, loc, just you and me i breaks em off to God it hurts me dearly to see my homies hustle and get by the cops, why cant the homies hear me?
why cant the hear me? listen to me homie, yeah why the homies hear me? why the homies hear me? why cant the homies me?
(Mr. Solo): uh, my homies be hitting me up im the same Solo but no im changed, and no i dont no more dont even trip with me 'cause Solo owe none of you i know Abe was talkin about, my hood was takin me under too had to go for self, had to get me some help, so now i can help else i found the to pull my homies up off the devil's shelf i see you see, do you see what i see i go to my neighbourhood, the wall is filled RIPs i see OGs i up to 'cause they was loc'ed out i comes to the hood to find my big is smoked out (smackin) i tell them the Blood of Christ is able to change your life wouldnt listen and they overdosin every night and my homegirls, no i cant about em i told em the brother was a hustler, "you can do him" but she keeps bringin him home, now she's pregnant alone, and now he's gone please draw near me so my homies can hear me
why cant the hear me? tell me why why cant the hear me? oh why? why the homies hear me? why cant the homies me?
why? talk to me homie why? i wanna hear what you've got to say why? why? face to face, G to G, talk to me why? why? God understands you're goin through why? why? ive right there where you are why? open up and let the Love of God shine in your heart why? why? He wants to set you free, He want to set you free, He did me why? oh
im inside God i dont wanna see you die, oh die, dont die yeah,