Get Down

[00:03.34] (Get, get, get down)
[00:07.70] Uh, uh, uh
[00:15.49] New York streets where killers'll walk like Pistol Pete
[00:18.02] And Pappy Mason, gave the young boys admiration
[00:21.28] Prince from Queens and Fritz from Harlem
[00:23.25] Street legends, the drugs kept the hood from starvin'
[00:26.22] Pushin' cars, Nicky Barnes was the '70s
[00:28.41] But there's a long list of high-profile celebrities
[00:31.02] Worldwide on the thorough side of things
[00:33.20] Livest kings, some died, one guy, one time
[00:36.28] One day grabs me, as I'm about to blast heat
[00:38.55] 40-side of Vernon, I turned while he asked me
[00:41.44] "What you up to? The cops gon' bust you"
[00:43.71] I was a teen drunk off brew
[00:45.25] Stumbled, I wondered if God sent him
[00:47.20] 'Cause two squad cars entered the block
[00:49.08] And looked at us, I ain't flinch when they watched
[00:51.06] I took it upstairs, the bathroom mirror, brushed my hair
[00:53.68] Starin' at a young disciple
[00:55.14] I almost gave my life to what the dice do
[00:57.38] Yeah man, throwin' them bones
[00:59.32] Hopin' my ace get his case thrown
[01:01.35] His girl ain't wait for him, she in the world straight hoein'
[01:04.56] While he lookin' at centerfolds of pretty girls showin'
[01:06.91] They little cooch, gangstas don't die, he's living proof
[01:09.86] The D.A. who tried him was lyin'
[01:11.55] A white dude, killed his mother during the case
[01:14.03] Hung jury, now, the D.A. is being replaced
[01:16.48] Pre-trial hearing is over, it's real for the soldier
[01:19.34] Walks in the courtroom, the look in his eyes is wild
[01:22.19] Triple-homicide, I sit in the back aisle
[01:24.42] I wanna crack a smile when I see him
[01:26.24] Throw up a fist for Black Power, 'cause all we want is his freedom
[01:29.18] He grabbed a court officer's gun and started squeezin'
[01:31.75] Then, he grabbed the judge, screams out, "Nobody leavin' everybody"
[01:34.53] Get down, get down!
[01:37.03] Get down, get down!
[01:40.18] Get, get, get, get, get, get, get down!
[01:44.25] Everybody
[01:44.85] Get down, get down, get down, get down!
[01:50.37] Get, get, get, get, get, get, get down!
[01:54.52] Some niggas fuck their enemies in their ass when they catch 'em
[01:57.11] Weird-ass niggas who dangerous, so don't test 'em
[01:59.51] They make you disappear, this a year that I won't forget
[02:02.64] Sold CD's double platinum, met mo' execs
[02:05.46] Southern niggas, independent label, real killers
[02:07.52] Know the business, ran Tennessee for years, now, they're chillin'
[02:10.42] They had the coke game somethin' crazy
[02:12.33] Sold music out the trunk of their car, that shit amazed me
[02:15.21] Put me onto her-on blunts, sherm or somethin'
[02:17.87] Took a puff, what the fuck? I turned to punch them
[02:20.12] Southern niggas ain't slow, nigga tried to play me
[02:22.33] I left from around them dudes, they cool but they crazy
[02:25.53] Now, I'm back around the old school that raised me
[02:27.58] New York gangsters, we're loungin', out in L.A.
[02:30.15] See, a dude wrote my dog from Pelican Bay
[02:32.79] The letter say, "Nas, I got your back, the fools don't play" (get down)
[02:35.24] I rolled with some Crips down to a Crenshaw funeral
[02:38.19] Never saw so many men slaughtered, then, I knew the hoe
[02:40.78] Responsible, the nigga still alive in a hospital
[02:43.38] Midnight they crept in his room and shot the doctor too
[02:46.28] See, my cousin's in the game, thuggin' and thangs
[02:48.20] He plugged me with a dame who was half-Mexicano
[02:50.83] Gave the ass up, I'm a mack daddy Soprano
[02:53.27] She passed me the indigo, but the imbecile
[02:55.46] Shoulda never tippy-toed, thought my eyes were closed
[02:58.06] Openin' the hotel room door to let her goons in
[03:01.21] But I moved in a manner on some Jet Li shit
[03:04.04] I let the hammers blow, wet three kids
[03:05.82] See honey thought I had somethin' to do with all the drama
[03:08.57] 'Cause I was with a crew that had her people killed
[03:10.81] Called up my cousin, told him I ain't fuckin' with you
[03:13.45] He responded, "Cool," but told me out here this how motherfuckers
[03:16.58] Get down, get down, get down, get down!
[03:21.93] Get, get, get, get, get-get-get down!
[03:25.99] Everybody
[03:26.55] Get down, get down, get down, get down!
[03:32.06] Get, get, get, get, get, get, get down!
[03:38.41] All I really gotta say is that
[03:40.68] If that's how our people gon' get down, how we ever gon' get up?
[03:45.37] How we ever gon' get up if that's how we get down?
[03:48.79] A shame when you really look at it
[03:50.81] My folk against your folk, but we all kinfolk
[03:55.30] Somebody got to make a change
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