| Lookin through a window, thinkin' of a mission | 
| Hear gunshots, another homeboy missin | 
| The streets, crazy as hell but what a brother know? | 
| A drive-by in a black 6−4 | 
| Who did it and why? | 
| Another gang cause they hate him | 
| The person they killed, he wasn’t even gangbangin | 
| Comin' from school, mindin his own alone | 
| But it’s the homeboy’s brother, so I guess it’s on | 
| 16 — dead, missin' half his face | 
| His family screams and he dream of a better place | 
| You’re either down or out | 
| I’ma stay down and talk loud | 
| Put on my khakis and still walk proud | 
| It’s either do do or die or get done for nuthin' | 
| I won’t run from a gun, nigga, shoot me some | 
| I’ma die a? | 
| full? | 
| death, it’s ignorant still | 
| But it’s ill cause sometimes people have to kill | 
| You put your flags on, Locs on, claims the ??? | 
| And get your jack on, sometimes you get blown away | 
| You wanna live in fear but it’s tragic | 
| An innocent child in another closed casket | 
| I’m thinkin' about my brother | 
| Been thinkin' about my future | 
| I got to get off the streets and work it out | 
| And face reality… | 
| A closed casket because he didn’t have no face | 
| Lost in space and his brother has the only trace | 
| Say, brethren, is you simply get a Uzi and blast? | 
| Are you sure to get away, or does it matter to ask? | 
| I know you feel kinda guilty cause they thought he was you | 
| And everybody in the hood makes you wanna pursuit | 
| The others brothers from the gang that you shot at first | 
| And now you roll in limousines and your brother a hearse | 
| I couldn’t doubt if it was me, I wouldn’t wanna do a murder | 
| Yeah, I might slip just a lil' bit further | 
| We livin' in a ghetto and the ghetto is a kettle | 
| Sittin' on the furnace and it won’t let go | 
| You feel guilty so you shoot back and you hit black | 
| And they hit back, another black’s ??? | 
| Another mother in tears, another kid in the grave | 
| The Lord gave us the freedom but till death we’re enslaved | 
| I’m thinkin' about my brother | 
| And thinkin' about my future | 
| I got to get off the streets and work it out | 
| And face reality | 
| Cause I know one day I will see a vision | 
| Of the other side, oh no no… | 
| And what a mother, because you wanna gee, she face danger | 
| Shootin' at the house and she just a stranger to a banger | 
| The brother of the brother you shot | 
| Now your brother was got, your boy, you’re ready to pop | 
| At the park you look gee’d, mad, even notorious | 
| You carry your rag, your reputation, it embroils | 
| Yeah, you can murder and you won’t be phased | 
| But when the death hits home to the death you a slave | 
| Boy, your grave will take a Uzi and retaliate | 
| Are you afraid of the fact that it might be bait? | 
| Because I heard a lil' rumour on the L.A. streets | 
| That tell the price on your head, can you face the G? | 
| Your homeboys might help, but maybe they won’t | 
| Maybe they can use dollars, are you gettin the point? | 
| Cause it’s straight game and death’s no joke | 
| You better get out of the fire or you smell the smoke | 
| It’s no jokin', I became a G because I had to | 
| (So the streets took control of you) | 
| I’m a gangsta, a gangsta on a new L. P | 
| A closed casket, a mother and the S.C.C |