New York streets killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long list of high-profile on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one 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 drunk off brew, I wondered If God him, cause two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch they watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my 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 straight hoeing While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living The D.A. who him was lying A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle 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 he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass they catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to me I left from around them dudes, they but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my dawg from Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the fools play" I rolled some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still in a hospital they crept in his room and shot 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 me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out here how motherfuckers
All I really say is that If that's how our people 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 is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change