New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, the young boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a long of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the 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 gon' you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they cooch, gangstas don't die he's living 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, it's real for the Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to crack a when I see him Throw up a fist for power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling They had the coke game crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to me I left from around them dudes, they cool but they Now I'm back the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled with some Crips to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, mack daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, my eyes were closed 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 kids See honey I had something to do, with all the drama I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out here this how
All I gotta say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame when you look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a