Respect

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

1970 something, **** I don't sweat the date

My moms is late so I had to plan my escape

Out the skins, in this world of fly girls

Tanqueray and Hennessy until I cold hurl

Ten months in this gut, what the ****?

I wish moms would hurry up so I could get buck

Wild juvenile ripping mics and ****

New York, New York, ready for the likes of this

Then came the worst date, May 21st

2:19, that's when my momma water burst

No spouse in the house so she rode for self

To the hospital, to see if she could get a little help

Umbilical cord's wrapped around my neck

I'm seeing my death and I ain't even took my first step

I made it out, I'm bringing mad joy

The doctor looked and said, "He's going to be a bad boy"

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

Now I'm thirteen, smoking ****, making cream

On the drug scene, **** a football team

Risking ruptured spleens by the age of sixteen

Hearing the coach scream ain't my lifetime dream

I mean I want to blow up, stack my dough up

So school I didn't show up, it **** my flow up

Mom said that I should grow up and check myself

Before I wreck myself, disrespect myself

Put the drugs on the shelf? Nah, couldn't see it

Scarface, King of New York, I want to be it

Rap was secondary, money was necessary

Until I got incarcerated, kinda scary

C74-Mark 8 set me straight

Not able to move behind the great steel gate

Time to contemplate, damn, where did I fail?

All the money I stacked was all the money for bail

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

Ninety-four, now I explore new horizons

Mama smile when she see me, that's surprising

Honeys is tantalizing, they freak all night

Peep ducking cops on the creep all night

As I open my eyes and realizing I changed

Not the same deranged child stuck up in the game

And to my **** living street life

Learn to treat life to the best, put stress to rest

Still tote your vest man, **** be tripping

In the streets without a gat? Nah, **** you're slipping

If I'm pimping on The F with **** on my breath

Original hustler with the muffler on the ****

Respect to the macks in the Ac's

To the freaks in the Jeeps, lick **** to my peeps

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

Me holla respect, to all the gun men dem

Gun men alone, keep gun men friend

Fire bun, fi all the informer dem

Informer lone keep informer friend

Now this is Diana King doing a Yankee thing

In a Biggie Small's thing, do it, Ja

Have Mercy

The gunman in all de party

And everybody feel irie

And everybody just follow me, follow me, follow me

Have Mercy

The wul ah we in ah de party

And everybody look irie

Now di man them sexy, sexy, sexy

Do it