New York streets where killers'll like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz from Street legends, the kept the hood from starving cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to the dice do Yeah man, them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother during the Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced hearing 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 want to crack a when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody everybody
Some niggas they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em They you, disappear, this a year that I won't forget Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling They had the game something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but crazy Now I'm back around the old school 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 Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The nigga still alive in a Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me with a dame who was 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 room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet three 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 responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
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 you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta a change