New York where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs the hood from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat 40-side of Vernon, I well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' 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, brushed my Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, don't die he's living proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial is over, it's real 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 a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now chilling They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me onto heron blunts, or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but they Now I'm back around the old school that me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I rolled with some Crips down to a funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga still in a hospital Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet three See thought I had something 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 people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame when you ain't at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody make a change