New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the boys admiration from Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a list of high-profile 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 turned well he me "What you up to, the gon' bust you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair at a young disciple, I almost gave my life 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 world straight While he at centerfolds of pretty girls they little cooch, gangstas 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 hearing is over, real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court officer's gun and started Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas fuck enemies 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 double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, independent label, killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they had the coke game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed 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 crazy Now I'm back the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A wrote my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got back, the fools don't play" I rolled with Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight they crept in his and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me with a 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 were Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the blow, wet three kids See honey 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 ain't fucking you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if how we get down? A shame you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody make a change