New streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, gave the young admiration Prince from and Fritz from Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from Pushing cars, Nicky Barnes was the But there's a long of high-profile celebrities Worldwide on the thorough of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat of Vernon, I turned well he asked me "What you up to, the gon' bust you" I was a teen drunk off brew, stumbled I If God sent him, cause two squad cars the block And looked at us, I ain't when they watched I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, my hair Staring at a disciple, I almost gave my life to what the dice do Yeah man, throwing them my ace get his case thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the straight hoeing While he looking at centerfolds of girls Showing they little cooch, don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A white dude, killed his mother the case jury, now the D.A. is being replaced Pre-trial hearing is over, real for the soldier Walks in the courtroom, the in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I want to crack a smile I see him up a fist for black power, cause all we want is his freedom He a court officer's gun and started squeezing Then he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving
niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when they catch 'em Weird-ass niggas are dangerous, so test 'em They make you, disappear, a year that I won't forget Sold CD's platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now chilling They had the coke game something music out the trunk of they car, that shit amazed me Put me heron blunts, sherm or something a puff, what the fuck, I turned to punch them Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to me I left from around dudes, they cool but they crazy 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 to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so many men and I knew the ho responsible The nigga still alive in a Midnight crept in his room and shot the doctor too See my cousin's in the game, 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, my eyes were closed Opening the hotel room do', to let her in But I moved in a manner, on Jet Li shit I let the hammers blow, wet kids See honey thought I had something to do, with all the Cause I was a crew, that had her people killed Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fucking you He cool, but told me out here this how motherfuckers
All I really say is that 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 when you ain't look at it My folk is yo' folk, but we all Somebody gotta make a