[Intro:
   sample]
   Someday I'm gonna be walkin down the streets mindin my own
   business
   And bam, I'm gonna be shot by some pig whose gonna swear
   That it was a mistake, I except that as a part of my destiny
   *says a sentence in Spanish* (something about dying like a dog)
  
   [Intro: Raekwon]
   What up kid? That's right, that's right
   Yo, yo yo, aiyo, aiyo
  
   [Chorus: Raekwon]
   Let my niggas live
   We show and prove gettin paper
   Catch me in the caper on 'shrooms yo
   Let my niggas live
   We real niggas that's god-body
   Challenge anything, make major moves
   Let my niggas live
   We giants, live off the land lions
   Post with irons, no cryin rules
   Let my niggas live, aiyo let my niggas live
   Handle your bid and kill no kids
  
   [Raekwon]
   Million man feet, whole family eat
   Yo, ya niggas is weak, got a bird beak, churp churp speak
   Kids that's rich, thatta, run in ya bitch
   And by the third week, yo mark my word, me and my herbs speak
   That's that fire, move like swims, yo
   Invisible pens that right like leak blends
   Hit with the JF Kennedy shot, smash with the acapoco rifle got
   got
   Boud off but got clocked
   Legendary hand, custom, made it shit, gladed
   Word up, design ya alphabet, refs get graded
   We in Get High Saloons, big bag of 'shrooms, arms limp
   Home of Allah's ten, big rooms
   So what we up in here, modeling large with rigirous moves
   Tired guards bust my ham at frauds
   Call them a live merchant, dressed in all red
   That's right y'all, gucci jumper, X5 gettin more hed
  
   [Chorus]
  
   [Nas]
   I scream at the mirror curse, askin God why me
   Run in the black church, gun in my hand, y'all try me
   I'm God's son, son of man, son of Marcus Garvy
   Rasta fari irie, hell alli salasi
   Police'll try to break us, but the streets raised us
   It takes more than metal bars, we destined for ours
   I hear murder plans for dope fiends, with elephant hands
   Snots in they nostril, the blocks is hostile
   It's no pots to piss in, glocks is spittin
   Rocks cookin, underground, body stiffin, cops lookin
   Bird shit, drop on the window pane, the oxygen is cocaine
   It drove lot's of men to die with no name
   I've been on both nut down throats
   Pee on bitches with famous, pretty dick, put stiches in the anus
   I'm the animal that Hugh Hefner created
   The only nigga Sharde dated, the most hated, Nas, nigga
  
   [Chorus]
  
   [Inspectah Deck]
   Roughneck, depth in the set
   Bang 'em twice in the neck, C.O. flip and jerk the whole yard rep
   Block bets, pop berettas, glocks and tech's
   You no threat, gun talk the language of the project
   Takin shorty with the black tail stance, leather pants
   Yellin "Fuck a man", makin killings off a lapdance
   Plus the young guns runnin the slums, funds is major
   Drug drought gut you huntin for crums, stuck to the razor
   Semi-auto's roar in the buildin halls
   Some pimp's a bloodsport, the slugs is still in wars
   Call it a New York state of mind, gotta take mine
   In the daytime, the jakes'll hit you 41 times
   So I live by the sword and obey hood laws
   Make my team click like high heels and wood floors
  
   [Chorus]
  
   [Outro: Raekwon, (RZA), {upset mother}]
   *two gun shots* *cryin*
   Damn, what happened, they shot son?
   (At least they shot shorty huh?)
   Oh man, damn, don't say that man? They dead
   (I see shorty walkin, must of had a pack)
   {They killed my baby, my baby, my baby, killed my baby...}