Black hoods  cops and projects 
Sewers flooded wit foul blockage 
The gutters wild and every child watches 
Chains and top locks get ripped off hindges  doors kicked off 
Drunks stagger off  smeared off  wipe your beard off 
Crippled dope fiends in wheelchairs stare  vision blurry 
Cause burried deep in their mind are hidden stories 
Bet heand's a mirror image of the 70and's error 
Heand's finished for the rest of his life til he fades out 
The liquor store workers miss him but then it plays out 
So many ways out the hood, but no signs say out 
Mental slave house where gats go off 
I show off, niggas up north 
Prisonology talks till they time cut off 
You used to chill you short, prepare deep thought 
They hit the streets again, get it on 
Get this paper and breed again 
Planet leave somethin behind, so your name will live on 
No matter what the game lives on...... 
Chorus: (there is no chorus, the beat just plays on) 
Uh, yo, if this pianos 
The cake and my words to the candles 
Light it up, make a wish and them angels will grant you 
And patience one try, puttin those angles as bamboo 
They lit it up, (nas inhales 2 times) 
Hit it up, (nas inhales once) now they dismantle 
Think the whole world is crazy, got a nine 
Watch where you walk, two dollar fine 
Sign of the times, hearin new york high satin 
United nations quietly takin toll on your soul 
Take it or leave it, just my evaluation 
Stack newly guns, teach the girls karate school your sons 
Not to hate, but to stay awake 
Cause the scars a razor make is nothin in comparison 
To the gas left on his whole mask, if we dont get it controlled fast 
Might as well be, laughing with malcom xand's assassin 
As we die slow, parishin brain dead from an ericson 
Words of the medicine, two teaspoons for goons 
A couple of it for those thuggin it 
Yall sing the tune....... 
Chorus 
Another day another dollar my mother will holler 
She said go and see the world for myself, in my brothers impala 
Pops was smooth from his top to his shoes 
He sang the blues, guitar strings he played smokin in school 
Two pellican hats, picture this yo, 70and's cat 
He rolled his music in the back of the crib, i did my homework 
At night the windows and speakers, pumpin life out 
A fight people screamin, cause somebody pulled a knife out 
So i look at this room, iand'm hooked to this tune 
Every night the same melody 
Hell soundin so heavenly...........