New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem legends, the drugs kept the hood from starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of high-profile on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day me, as I'm about to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I 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 flinch they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them my ace get his case thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being 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 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 leaving
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so don't 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I won't Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke game crazy music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, 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 they Now I'm back the old school that raised me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude my dawg from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and 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 were Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the blow, wet three kids See honey I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, had her people killed up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but me out here 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 when you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody make a change