[ Verse 1 ] [ ]
It has been said, that there has known to be blood shed Over bread, men who have to death, dead to beds, bite bombs dynamite lead Money, power, respect, cred, yeah It's scary it? Picture yourself going out as a hero Picth a Mural, pictures of us painted all over corners Fans to mourn us, while we meet the coroners Notorious to warn us So many piggy bank off of, Biggie's back and Landmarks, history in rap, in fact It's so sad to see us tragic events, which lead us back To where we left of 9th to come from such hard knock lifes And it out of the bottom to hit the spotlights the artist, this is our lives Cast out for all And he who lasts the longest must be the In this concrete Where this dog eat dog comes from This origin, which is usually originated cats are starving Or it just be somebodys aura that just horrifies And to his persona or the sizes in his entourage intimidates the people to the point You know that he's gangster, he aint gotta say shit you just it
[ 2 ] [ Obie Trice ]
Since Big taught us niggas to big I'm been about my business then so it aint Cheers It aint how we live, it's he said he did it for Brooklyn This I took in, sent through my skin Vicious, I've experienced in the sights as him It's what excited Obie to write poems Rolling, going the same shit he spoken Open up my eyes there's no limit in them When 2 Die was a sick part of my life Pummin .45, plotting to pop my mind Then that crooked eye Jamaican, I'd so many times Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my Get up out the system, who give him better signs? No pop of mine could top Big Poppas So possibly I'd be popular That's the inspiration I got my nigga P.I
[ Verse 3 ] [ P ]
I took a coal, a diamond, I his mind, enter The phenomenal artist of any and all time I made a Frankenstein, my impressed Backpackers and press who said my 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 the adolesence absent to who he is The original of New York Christopher Wallace is a promise on Diddy's honor I'm a father to and teach ya with all the drama Don't even bother, or All of your play back to back And I your grave cause our friendships intact An concept, extravagant progress Bullet left in my heart, I'm yelling God bless to critics yelling that 'east-west' I seen the loosing, I'm just pressing the reset When the ressurection of you shines an individual Lyrical enough, doing the crown of thorns literally pay homage, brooklyns finest Wether Queens or Harlem it'll be instant stardom, ni99a!