New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz from Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of high-profile Worldwide on the thorough side of Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked 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 entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch when watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my at a young disciple, I almost 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 While he looking at of pretty girls Showing little 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 in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em They you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke game crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back around the old that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my from Pelican Bay The say, "Nas I got your back, the fools don't play" I rolled with Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack 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 some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't with you He responded cool, but me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame when you look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a