New streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long list of high-profile Worldwide on the side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day me, as I'm about to blast heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' 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 flinch when they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do Yeah man, them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't for him, she in the world straight hoeing he looking at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who tried him was A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, it's for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They make you, disappear, this a year I won't forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the of they car, that shit amazed me Put me heron 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 dudes, they 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 dawg Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the fools play" I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me with a dame who was the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the Cause I was with a crew, that had her people Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking you He responded cool, but told me out here this how
All I really gotta say is If that's how our gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we gon' get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody make a change