Thugz Mansion (N.Y.) [feat. 2Pac & J. Phoenix]

I want you to close your eyes and

Envision the most beautiful place in the world

If you in the hood and the ghetto street corner

Come on this journey

The best journey

Some mansion

Acres of land and swimming pools and all that, check it out

I'm capable of anything

My imagination can get me wings to fly like doves over the streets

Watching many things

Kids walking home from school on drug blocks, missionaries

Pass out the papers that read love God

I see faces, cases, judges and jurors, masons, lawyers, and cops

I watch 'cause every thug's face is my mirror

But this was one in particular

This kid he was the vintage stick 'em up pro

Sixteen years old, did his jail sentence, nowhere to go

Every morning calls his comrade to come and get him to smoke

He insane, already gone mad

Blames himself for his setbacks, dangerous street corners where it sits at

Sling from dusk to dawn

Detectives act like they maniacs chasing him, his asthma's flaring

Smoking like a chimney on Remy, of course he not caring

He need a place to go to keep his mind expanding

I give him a helping hand

Bring 'em out to Thugz Mansion

Every corner, every city, there's a place where life's a little easy

Little Hennessy, laid back and cool, every hour 'cause it's all good

Leave all the stress from world outside

Every wrong done will be alright

Nothing but peace, love

And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion

Dear mama, don't cry your baby boy's doing good

Tell the homies I'm in heaven and they ain't got hoods

Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night

It had me shook, drinking peppermint schnapps with Jackie Wilson

And Sam Cook

Then some lady named Billie Holliday sang

Sitting there, kickin' it with Malcom 'til the day came

Little Natasha sure grown

Telling the lady in the liquor store that she's forgiven

So come home

Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us

When Miles Davis cutting loose with the band

Just think, all the people that you knew in the past

That passed on, they in Heaven, found peace at last

Picture a place that they exist together

There has to be a place better than this in Heaven

So right before I sleep, dear God what I'm asking

Remember this face, save me a place in Thugz Mansion

Every corner, every city, there's a place where life's a little easy

Little Hennessy, laid back and cool, every hour 'cause it's all good

Leave all the stress from the world outside

Every wrong done will be alright

Nothing but peace, love

And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion

A place where death doesn't reside

Just thugs who collide, not to start beef, but spark trees

No cops rolling by, no policemen, no homicide

No chalk on the streets, no reason

For nobody's mama to cry, see, I'm a good guy

I'm trying to stick around for my daughter

But if I should die, I know all of my albums support her

This whole year's been crazy

Asked the Holy Spirit to save me, only difference from me

And Ossie Davis, gray hair, maybe

'Cause I feel like my eyes saw too much suffering

I'm just twenty some odd years

I done lost my mother and I cried tears of joy

I know she smiles on her boy

I dream of you more, my love goes to Afeni Shakur

'Cause like aunt Jones, she raised a ghetto king in a war

And just for that alone she shouldn't feel no pain no more

'Cause one day we'll all be together, sipping Heavenly champagne

Where angels soar with golden wings in Thugz Mansion

Every corner, every city, there's a place where life's a little easy

Little Hennessy, laid back and cool, every hour 'cause it's all good

Leave all the stress from the world outside

Every wrong done will be alright

Nothing but peace, love

And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion