Shadow of Death

Yeah, Los Angeles, "Welcome to the Terrordome"

City of Satan, angels can't even get along

No lie, my town covered in darkness

Hoping that the sun just shine on us

Rolling up the kush, now I'm letting my mind wander

Into another place, I ain't tryna go down under

Life is like a race and we all tryna finish it

Shit never fair, strays hitting the innocent

The good die young where I'm from and it's sad to say

That somebody gotta die today

Tomorrow's never promised, but we living for the moment

Nigga, time never stops, it just keeps on going

Crackers just gave my young nigga four life sentences

Twenty-five times four, nigga, do the math

And the hood never have witnesses

Cause if we did, then them shots gon' blast

As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna

Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends

This ain't the way my life bout to end

So I'm quick to grab on my pen and

Give 'em something my people sure to defend

Give 'em something that I know is all the way real

Just wakin' up, mind playing tricks on me

Got the fifth on me, gotta take a risk homie

Was a ball player till the coach pissed on me

Keep it real, I could take you down the list homie

Be a tradition, see these Chucks be a mission

Burner be the fuel to the flame, the key to the ignition

If you banging, be serious

Boys run up in your pad, point-blank, period, moms ain't hearing it

Niggas said 'cuz lil nigga got blasted

Oh well, give a shit, shouldn't half-assed it

Only time you with it, when your niggas all tripping

Caught your ass slipping, now I'm stepping up my crip and steady dipping

Riding through the city in lights, living it trife

Wrong intersection, ready to fight

Hopping out with my own agenda, who the contender?

Better hope this motherfucker jam (BLAHH!)

Uh, as I'm hearing the first and second verse

I try to analyse the feeling that's felt in the song

I want to tell Rock and Q to go to church

But that's a hypocrite because I ain't been in so long

I stare at the world from a righteous point of view

And realize a crisis coming

Novocain couldn't numb it, the pain is unbearable times two

Let's rally a team, summon, and school the youth

How you feel about it?

Man, I feel the same way as you

It hurts my soul, like a needle piercing through the bottom of my shoe

And if you behind bars

Hold your head,

And if you in close range with a nigga with a gun in his waste

I pray the intervention

I got a cousin in jail and handful of homies in heaven

But earlier than expected, what the hell?