New York streets where killers'll walk like Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Barnes was the 70's But there's a long of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the side of things kings, some died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm to blast heat 40-side of Vernon, I turned well he me "What you up to, the gon' bust you" I was a drunk off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars 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 gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing bones Hoping my ace get his case His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother 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 aisle I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He grabbed a officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
Some niggas fuck they enemies in ass when they catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I won't Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, label, real killers Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the game something crazy music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, the fuck, I turned to punch them niggas ain't slow, nigga tried 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 rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The still alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his room and the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me with a who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She passed me the indigo, but the Should of never tippy-toed, thought my were closed Opening the hotel do', to let her goons in But I in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See thought I had something to do, with all the drama I was with 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 when you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change