New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't wait for him, she in the straight hoeing While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother during the jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling They had the coke game something Sold out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me with a dame who was Gave the ass up, I'ma daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change