New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince Queens and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from cars, Nicky Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one 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 drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God him, cause two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't wait for him, she in the straight hoeing While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being hearing is over, it's real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I forget CD's double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of car, that 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 they Now I'm back around the old school that me New gangstas, we lounging, out in L.A. see A dude wrote my from Pelican Bay The letter say, "Nas I got your back, the don't play" I with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, and things He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile Should of tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed the hotel room do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had something to do, all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out here this how
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 when you ain't at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change