[00:03.239]{"{"}Verse 1}
[00:10.715]They got a ***** shedding tears, reminiscin on my past fears
[00:14.093]Cause **** was hectic for me last year
[00:16.337]It appears that I've been marked for death
[00:18.448]My heartless breath, the underlying cause of my arrest
[00:21.284]My life is stressed, and no rest forever weary
[00:24.315]My eyes stay teary for all the brothers that are buried in the cemetery
[00:27.775]****'s scary, our black on black crime legendary
[00:30.458]But at times unnecessary, I'm gettin worried
[00:33.113]Teardrops and closed caskets, the three strikes law is drastic
[00:36.765]And certain death for us ghetto bastards
[00:39.000]What can we do when we're arrested, but open fire
[00:41.495]Life in the pen ain't for me, cause I'd rather die
[00:44.141]But don't cry through your despair
[00:46.131]I wonder if the Lord still cares, for us *****s on welfare
[00:49.476]And who cares if we survive
[00:51.621]The only time they notice a ***** is when he clutchin on a four-five
[00:55.200]My neighborhood ain't the same
[00:56.980]Cause all the little babies goin crazy and they sufferin in the game
[01:00.469]And I swear it's like a trap
[01:02.541]But I ain't given up on the hood it's all good when I go back
[01:05.997]Hoes show me love, *****s give me props
[01:08.786]Forever hop cause it don't stop... on my block
[01:12.217]{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac mini skit}
[01:20.707]{"{"}Verse 2}
[01:26.963]Now ****'s constantly hot, on my block, it never fails to be gunshots
[01:30.621]Can't explain a mother's pain, when her son drops
[01:33.288]Black male living in hell when will we prevail
[01:36.107]Fearin jail but crack sales got me livin well
[01:38.844]In a sense I'm suicidal with this Thug's Life
[01:41.615]Stayin strapped, forever trapped in this drug life
[01:44.175]God help me, cause I'm starvin, can't get a job
[01:46.918]So I resort to violent robbings, my life is hard
[01:49.897]Can't sleep cause all the dirt make my heart hurt
[01:52.618]Put in work and shed tears for my dead peers
[01:54.984]Misled from childhood where I went astray
[01:57.856]Till this day I still pray for a better way
[02:00.542]Can't help but feel hopeless and heartbroke
[02:03.401]From the start I felt the racism cause I'm dark
[02:06.033]Couldn't quit, the bull**** make me represent
[02:08.810]Hit the bar and played the star, everywhere I went
[02:11.885]In my heart, I felt alone out here on my own
[02:14.269]I close my eyes and picture home... on my block
[02:17.424]{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac mini skit once again}
[02:20.770]{"{"}Verse 3}
[02:32.490]And I can't help but wonder why
[02:34.116]So many young kids had to die
[02:36.234]Caught strays from AK's in a drive-by
[02:38.828]Swollen pride and homicide, don't coincide
[02:41.573]Brothers cry for broken lives, mama come inside
[02:44.313]Cause our block is filled with danger
[02:46.376]Used to be a close knit community but now we're all cold strangers
[02:49.943]Time changes us to stone, them crack pipes
[02:52.545]All up and down the block exterminatin black life
[02:55.231]But I can't blame the dealers
[02:57.249]My mama's welfare check has brought the next man chrome wheels
[03:00.772]****'s real, I know ya feel, my tragedy
[03:03.488]A single mother with a problem child, daddy free
[03:06.126]Hangin out pickin up game, sippin cheap liquor
[03:08.863]Gamin the hoochies hopin I can get to sleep with her
[03:11.896]It's a man's world, stayin strapped
[03:13.926]Fantasies of a ***** livin phat, but held back
[03:17.214]Pipe dreams can make the night seem hopeless
[03:19.769]Wide eyed and losin focus... on my block
[03:23.002]{"{"}Richie Rich & 2-Pac skit once again}
[03:29.815]{"{"}Verse 4}
[03:38.076]And block parties in the projects lastin way past daylight
[03:41.703]A young ***** learned to break night
[03:43.662]Used to play fight with my homies but they stuck in the pen
[03:46.603]I send them ends, but it's tough on a friend, in my mind
[03:49.258]I see the same ************s ballin
[03:51.708]Alcohol will make a lazy ***** slip and fall, misses call
[03:54.795]I know the young *****s understand this
[03:57.016]Growing up in this world where everything is scandalous
[03:59.740]I reminisce on tha fast times, past crimes
[04:02.951]Tryin to cop a slice of pizza with my last dime
[04:05.388]Can't explain, just what attracts me to this dirty game
[04:08.150]Gold chains, some extra change, and the street fame
[04:11.039]And what's strange is that everybody knows my name, swear they all know me
[04:14.576]And lots of cash make a ***** change
[04:16.418]I hit the green just to maintain, feelin pain
[04:19.257]For all the *****s that I lost to the game... from my block
[04:22.673]{"{"}Outro with Richie Rich vocals}
[04:27.403]Rest in peace to all the ************s who passed away
[04:30.174]From all the blocks that I'm from
[04:32.360]One-twelve street, 7th Avenue, New York, Uptown, knahmsayin?
[04:38.158]183rd and Walt, my block, that's right
[04:42.894]122nd and Morningside, my block, that's right
[04:47.321]Decatur Avenue, Baltimore, my block, that's right
[04:51.753]In the jungle of Marin City, that's my block, that's right
[04:55.746]Los Angeles, haha, that's my block too
[05:00.616]Oakland, can't forget Oaktown, that's my block for sure
[05:04.102]And all the other blocks around this ************
[05:07.365]Houston, Florida, St. Louis, Tennessee, Miami, Chicago
[05:10.256]All y'all *****s stay kicking up dust