New York streets where walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys Prince from and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the thorough side of kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast 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 cars entered the block And looked at us, I flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he at centerfolds of pretty girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof 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 look in his is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, cause all we is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
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 I won't forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, label, real killers Know the business, ran for years, now they chilling They had the game something crazy music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, sherm or Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm back around the old school that 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 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 in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, thugging and He plugged me with a who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, mack daddy Soprano She me the indigo, but the imbecile of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the room do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the hammers blow, wet kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama Cause I was with a crew, that had her people up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking with you He responded cool, but told me out this how motherfuckers
All I gotta say is that If that's how our people get down, how we ever gon' get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A shame you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a