New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a list of high-profile celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to 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 cars entered the And looked at us, I flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to the dice do Yeah man, throwing them my ace get his case thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at of pretty girls they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A dude, killed his mother during the case jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's real for the Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em make you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, cool 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 say, "Nas I got your back, the fools don't play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral saw so many men slaughtered and I knew 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 plugged me with a dame who was Gave the ass up, I'ma mack 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 blow, wet three kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking you He responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If that's how our gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A when you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody gotta a change