New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day me, as I'm about to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I If God sent him, two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living The D.A. who tried him was A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being hearing is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em make you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they but they crazy Now I'm around the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my 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 men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me with a who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes closed Opening the room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, that had her killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He responded cool, but told me out here how motherfuckers
All I really say is that 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 when you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all gotta make a change