[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has been to be blood shed Over bread, men who bled to death, dead to beds, bite bombs dynamite lead Money, power, respect, street cred, It's scary aint it? Picture yourself going out as a Picth a Mural, of us painted all over street corners Fans meet to mourn us, while we the coroners Notorious to warn us So many piggy off of, Biggie's back and Pac's Landmarks, history in rap, statistically in so sad to see us re-enact These tragic events, which lead us To we left of March 9th to come from such hard knock lifes And make it out of the to hit the spotlights Once the artist, is our lives out for all eyes And he who lasts the must be the strongest In this concrete Where dog eat dog mentality comes from This origin, which is usually originated cats are starving Or it could just be somebodys aura that just And applies to his persona or the sizes in his That intimidates the people to the You know that gangster, he aint gotta say shit you just believe it
[ 2 ] [ Obie Trice ]
Big taught us niggas to think big I'm been about my business since then so it Cheers It aint how we live, it's what he he did it for Brooklyn This I in, sent chills through my skin Vicious, experienced in the same sights as him It's what excited Obie to write these Rolling, going through the same he spoken Open up my eyes there's no in them skies When Ready 2 Die was a sick of my life that .45, plotting to pop my mind Then that crooked eye Jamaican, I'd so many Rewind Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my Get up out the system, who could give him better No pop of mine top Big Poppas rhymes So possibly I'd be huh? That's the inspiration I got my nigga P.I
[ 3 ] [ P Diddy ]
I took a coal, a diamond, I moulded his mind, The most phenomenal artist of any and all I made a Frankenstein, my impressed and press who said my house was a mess Critics lash, said I made a of his past an' All is did was a dynasty off of his passion And I'm addressing the absent to who he is The king of New York Christopher Wallace This is a promise on honor I'm a father to and teach ya with all the drama even bother, or repeat All of your albums play back to And I visit your grave cause our friendships An ammaculate concept, extravagant wounds left in my heart, I'm yelling God bless Regardless to yelling that 'east-west' I seen the game loosing, I'm just the reset When the of you shines through an individual Lyrical enough, doing the same crown of literally I'ma pay homage, brooklyns Wether it's Queens or Harlem be instant stardom, ni99a!