New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, the young boys admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But a long list of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the side of things Livest kings, 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 cops gon' you" I was a drunk 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 it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the straight hoeing While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die living proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to crack a when I see him up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court officer's gun and squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em make you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs niggas, independent label, real killers Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me onto 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 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 Crips down to a Crenshaw Never saw so many men and I knew the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of never tippy-toed, my eyes were closed Opening the room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the I was with a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, him I ain't fucking with you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really gotta say is If how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we gon' get up if that's how we get down? A when you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a