New streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long list of celebrities Worldwide on the side of things Livest kings, died, one guy, one time One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the cops gon' you" I was a teen off brew, stumbled I wondered If God sent him, cause two squad cars entered the And at us, I ain't flinch when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, 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 ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, it's for the soldier in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the back I want to a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for power, cause all we want is his freedom He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year that I forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, label, real killers the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they chilling They had the coke game something Sold music out the trunk of they car, shit amazed me Put me onto heron blunts, or something Took a puff, the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga to play me I left around them dudes, they cool but they crazy Now I'm around the old school 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 don't play" I rolled with some Crips to a Crenshaw funeral saw so many men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The still alive in a hospital they crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He me with a dame who was half-Mexicano Gave the ass up, I'ma mack daddy She passed me the indigo, but the of never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on some Jet Li I let the blow, wet three kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the Cause I was with a crew, that had her killed Called up my cousin, told him I fucking with you He responded cool, but me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really say is that If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever get up? How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get A when you ain't look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk gotta make a change