New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 40-side of Vernon, I well he asked me "What you up to, the cops bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world hoeing While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial is over, it's real for the soldier in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, leaving everybody
niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but crazy Now I'm around the old school that 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 don't play" I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw Never saw so many men and I knew the ho responsible The still alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and shot the too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me with a who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, mack daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, thought my were closed Opening the room do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet three See honey thought I had something to do, all the drama Cause I was 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 here this how
All I gotta say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we gon' get up if that's how we get down? A shame you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all gotta make a change