New York streets killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Mason, gave the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz from Street legends, the drugs kept the hood starving Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long list of celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one 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 bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I If God him, cause two squad cars entered the block And looked at us, I flinch when they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost my life to what the dice do man, throwing them bones Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who tried him was A white dude, killed his mother the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's 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 court gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I won't Sold double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I to punch them niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left from around them dudes, they cool but crazy Now I'm back around the old that raised 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 fools play" I rolled with some Crips to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho The nigga alive in a hospital 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 daddy Soprano She passed me the indigo, but the Should of tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See honey thought I had to do, with all the drama Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed up my cousin, told 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 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 Somebody make a change