New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But a long list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned well he me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when they I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I gave 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 he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial is over, it's real for the soldier in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I won't CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but crazy Now I'm back around the old school raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg from Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I rolled with some down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me with a dame who was the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the Cause I was with a crew, 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 gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change