Fugees - Red Intro Lyrics
Yo, this *****er I was wit the other day, I was chillinWith scott and the minute that we got in front of ourCrib with a shotgun. cause jokers gonna be bustin upIn there trying to get food, clothing, shelter, tvs, forks,Radios or whatever they can get there hands on. shitIs getting mad ill out here man. jokers running out hereLike with masks on; I was with my man pee, he thinkHe like charlie chan or robert de niroOr bruce lee or some shit, jumping from behind trees onMuh*****as, like cowboys bang bang or whatever youKnow. trying to shoot a joker he had beef with, he woundUp shootin my man up in the street, tyring to be cowboysThey cant even shoot, trying to be gangstas but when theBeast come on the mutha*****in block everybody break out.They beat my man bob g. up the other day, cops, pigs vampinOn him, everybody just standin around just watching thatShit take place. cause they only gangstas when it comes toBeing gangstas to themselves. they want to be corleone, luigi,Or gambino or gotti or whatever the *****. they run around callinThemselves rahiem or fuquan or mustapha cause we think theyGot power, but ***** them, I got power. I got power, I got family,I got family business on avon, on chancellor, on prince streetOn chadwick, on stratford on chancellor on vailsburg. all of theBrick city. thats my family, we gonna settle the score, onceAnd for all. Im not lettin nobody Im going out likeA bandit. and all of these zealots trying to steal and trying toBite what I got like all of these big record companies, theseCorporations these stores they try to rob me. naw man, Im going,Im a get mine. me and my girl we gonna go out togetherWe gonna be a soldier kid. when I go out, she go out. and weGonna make what we believe manifest cause if you aint readyNow, you aint never gonna be ready . . .Im always ready.
