One Love (feat. Q-Tip)

What up, kid? I know shit is rough doin' your bid

When the cops came, you shoulda slid to my crib

Fuck it, black, no time for lookin' back, it's done

Plus, congratulations, you know you got a son

I heard he looks like ya, why don't your lady write ya?

Told her she should visit, that's when she got hyper

Flippin', talkin' 'bout he acts too rough

He didn't listen, he be riffin' while I'm tellin' him stuff

I was like, yeah, shorty don't care, she a snake too

Fuckin' with them **** from that fake crew that hate you

But, yo, guess who got shot in the dome piece?

Jerome's niece on her way home from Jones Beach

It's bugged, plus little Rob is sellin' drugs on the dime

Hangin' out with young thugs that all carry nines

And nighttime is more trife than ever

What up with Cormega? Did you see him? Are y'all together?

If so, then hold the fort down, represent to the fullest

Say what's up to Herb, Ice, and Bullet

I left a half a hundred in your commissary

You was my **** when push came to shove

One what?

One love

One love, one love, one love, one love

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One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

Dear Born, you'll be out soon, stay strong

Out in New York, the same shit is goin' on

The crackheads stalkin', loudmouths is talkin'

Hold, check out the story yesterday when I was walkin'

That **** you shot last year tried to appear

Like he hurtin' something, word to motha, heard him frontin'

And he be pumpin' on your block

Your man gave him your Glock

And now they run together, what up, son? Whatever

Since I'm on the streets, I'ma put it to a cease

But I heard you blew a **** with a ox for the phone piece

Wylin' on the Island, but now in Elmira

Better chill 'cause them **** will put that ass on fire

Last time you wrote, you said they tried you in the showers

But maintain, when you come home, the corner's ours

On the reals, all these crab **** know the deal

When we start the revolution, all they probably do is squeal

But chill, see you on the next V-I

I gave your mom dukes loot for kicks, plus sent you flicks

Your brother's buck-wylin' in four main, he wrote me

He might beat his case, till he come home, I'll play it low-key

So stay civilized, time flies

Though incarcerated, your mind dies

I hate it when your moms cries

It kinda makes me wanna murder, for real-a

I even got a mask and gloves to bust slugs, but one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

Sometimes I sit back with a buddha sack

Mind's in another world, thinkin', how can we exist through the facts?

Written in school textbooks, bibles, et cetera

Fuck a school lecture, the lies get me vexed-er

So I be ghost from my projects

I take my pen and pad for the weekend, hittin' Ls while I'm sleepin'

A two-day stay, you may say I needed time alone to relax my dome

No phone, left the nine at home

You see, the streets had me stressed somethin' terrible

Fuckin' with the corners have a **** up in Bellevue

Or HDM, hit with numbers from eight to ten

A future in a maximum state pen is grim

So I comes back home, nobody's out but Shorty Doo-Wop

Rollin' two Phillies together, in the 'Bridge, we call 'em ooh-wops

He said, "Nas, **** caught me bustin' off the roof

So I wear a bulletproof and pack a black tre deuce"

He inhaled so deep, shut his eyes like he was sleep

Started coughin', one eye peeked to watch me speak

I sat back like The Mack, my army suit was black

We was chillin' on these benches where he pumped his loose cracks

I took the L when he passed it, this little bastard

Keeps me blasted and starts talkin' mad shit

I had to school him, told him don't let **** fool him

'Cause when the pistol blows, the one that's murdered be the cool one

Tough luck when **** are struck, families fucked up

Coulda caught your man, but didn't look when you bucked up

Mistakes happen, so take heed, never bust up at the crowd

Catch him solo and make the right man bleed

Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul

Only twelve, tryna tell me that he liked my style

Then I rose, wipin' the blunt's ash from my clothes

Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose

And told my little man I'ma ghost, I broze

Left some jewels in his skull that he can sell if he chose

Words of wisdom from Nas, try to rise up above

Keep a eye out for Jake, Shorty Wop, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

To all my **** locked up

From Queensbridge and all over

One love, one love, one love, one love

To my man Goon, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

To my man Herb, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

To my man Late Luciano, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

Can't forget my motherfuckin' heart, Big Bo, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

To Oogie, yeah, one love

One love, one love, one love, one love

One love