New York where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete And Pappy Mason, the young boys admiration Prince from Queens and Fritz Harlem Street legends, the drugs kept the from starving Pushing cars, Nicky was the 70's But there's a long of high-profile celebrities on the thorough side of things Livest kings, some died, one guy, one One day grabs me, as I'm about to heat 40-side of Vernon, I 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 cars entered the block And looked at us, I ain't flinch they watched I it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair Staring at a young disciple, I almost gave my life to what the do Yeah man, throwing them Hoping my ace get his thrown His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight While he looking at centerfolds of pretty Showing little cooch, gangstas don't die he's living proof The D.A. who him was lying A dude, killed his mother during the case Hung jury, now the D.A. is being Pre-trial hearing is over, it's real for the in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild Triple-homicide, I sit in the aisle I to crack a smile when I see him Throw up a fist for black power, all we want is his freedom He grabbed a court gun and started squeezing he grabbed the judge, screams out, nobody leaving everybody
Some niggas fuck they enemies in they ass when catch 'em niggas are dangerous, so don't test 'em They make you, disappear, this a year I won't forget Sold double platinum, met mo' execs Southern niggas, independent label, real Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now they They had the coke something crazy Sold music out the trunk of they car, that shit me Put me onto blunts, sherm or something Took a puff, what the fuck, I turned to them Southern ain't slow, nigga tried to play me I left around them 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 dawg Pelican Bay The say, "Nas I got your back, the fools don't play" I with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral Never saw so men slaughtered and I knew the ho responsible The nigga alive in a hospital Midnight they crept in his and shot the doctor too See my in the game, thugging and things He plugged me a dame who was half-Mexicano the ass up, I'ma mack daddy Soprano 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 in a manner, on some Jet Li shit I let the blow, wet three 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 with you He responded cool, but told me out 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 get up if that's how we get down? A shame when you look at it My is yo' folk, but we all kinfolk Somebody gotta make a