[00:01.55]Technique is ill son  watch how I spill one
[00:04.62]
[00:05.40]Peace to Biggie  2Pac  Big L and Big Pun
[00:08.35]Havoc on the streets of Staten  snitches
[00:11.44]House niggas  children watch
[00:13.00]As they produce the same pattern
[00:14.65]
[00:15.49]Somebody raped our women
[00:17.47]  murdered our babies
[00:18.76]Hit us with the cracks and guns
[00:20.58]In the early 80's
[00:21.68]For those that murdered me shall
[00:23.95]Stand before God
[00:25.44]To fall at the hands of fate
[00:27.14]Then out comes the rod
[00:28.63]Bring it back  bring it back
[00:30.20]Bring it back
[00:31.31]
[00:36.46]What the f**k is going on
[00:37.69]I can't go to sleep
[00:39.78]Feds jumping out their jeeps
[00:41.27]I can't go to sleep
[00:42.41]
[00:43.05]Babies with flies on they cheeks
[00:44.60]It's hard to go to sleep
[00:46.67]Ish bowled two 6's twice
[00:48.22]I couldn't go to sleep
[00:49.76]Aiyyo we deep in the stairs
[00:51.44]We carry big guns
[00:52.53]Whippy got hit up with the big shit
[00:54.89]
[00:55.76]Bong bong
[00:56.90]Stop at the cheeba spot
[00:58.59]Then pass the leak spot
[01:00.14]Drove past y'all niggas again  you took a cheap shot
[01:02.85]Not knowing  f**king with me you
[01:05.27]Get your meat chopped
[01:07.05]You thought we fell on our face
[01:08.84]  you need to be stopped
[01:10.28]Call on the chariots  call on an ambulance
[01:12.81]
[01:13.75]You better smile  my nigga you on Candid Cam
[01:16.79]Gangsta broad  these be the laws
[01:19.02]Walk with big balls
[01:20.15]Nigga  motherf**king eunuch
[01:21.02]  I even take which was yours
[01:23.40]I'm the nigga that made you  man
[01:25.45]When your rap wasn't doing well
[01:27.85]I'm the nigga that gave you a hand
[01:31.78]
[01:35.23]Don't kill your brother  learn to love each other
[01:39.78]
[01:42.33]Don't get mad  cause it ain't that bad
[01:46.70]
[01:48.81]Look at who you are  you've come too far
[01:53.21]
[01:55.89]It's in your hands  just be a man
[02:00.43]
[02:02.45]Get the jelly out your spine
[02:04.22]
[02:05.73]Cobwebs out of your mind
[02:07.51]
[02:09.25]I can't go to sleep  I can't shut my eyes
[02:12.70]They shot the father at his mom's
[02:14.95]Building seven times
[02:15.89]They shot Malcolm in the chest
[02:17.78]Front of his little seeds
[02:19.12]Jesse watched as they shot King on the balcony
[02:22.55]
[02:23.11]Exported Marcus Garvey cause he tried to spark us
[02:26.42]With the knowledge of ourselves and our forefathers
[02:29.92]Oh Jacqueline you heard the rifle shots crackling
[02:32.91]
[02:33.45]Her husband's head in her hands
[02:35.18]You tried to put it back in
[02:36.95]America's watching  blood-stained
[02:38.66]
[02:39.23]Ink blotches
[02:40.37]Medgar took one to the skull for
[02:42.18]Integrating college
[02:42.94]What's the science  Somebody
[02:45.46]This is trick knowledge
[02:47.06]They try to keep us enslaved and
[02:48.93]Still scrape for dollars
[02:50.09]Walking through Park Hill  drunk as a f**k
[02:52.80]Looking around like these Devils
[02:54.59]I'm ready to break this world down
[02:56.50]They got me trapped up in a metal gate
[02:59.06]Just stressed out with hate
[03:00.23]And just give me no time
[03:01.58]To relax and use my mind to meditate
[03:03.51]What should I do  grab a blunt or a brew
[03:06.00]Grab a  22 and run out there and
[03:08.64]Put this f**king violence in you
[03:11.02]I can't go to sleep  I can't shut em  son   I