New York streets where killers'll walk Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince from and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of high-profile Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned well he me "What you up to, the gon' bust you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two cars entered the block And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, them bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he at centerfolds of pretty girls they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, it's for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I to crack 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 he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy Sold out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from 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 dawg Pelican 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 the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital they crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me with a dame who was Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were the hotel room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, had her people killed up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking 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 gon' get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you ain't at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change