[Intro: Inspectah Deck]

One-two, one-two, the High Chief

Yeah, yo, so alone, baby

[Pre-Verse: Inspectah Deck]

I'm just lookin' out of the window

Watchin' the gunshots blow

Thinkin' how we all was turnin' out

Keepin' my head above water

Got to make a weight when I can ('Cause I can)

[Verse 1: Inspectah Deck]

Temporary lay off, cop pay offs, daily rip offs

Informer tip off, clips lick off

The judge got hit off, boss got knocked off

Worker made a come off, cash got dropped off

Buildings got burnt out, sisters got turned out

Work out of the yard up North, tryna burst out

Pissy elevators, dirty cop favors

Tongues hiding razors, minors turn majors

Wave the bigger tools, shootout inside the school yard

The game ain't' changed, niggas done made their own rules

They buildin' plans, let's pull a million dollar scam

Watch for taped conversations, Jakes and dollar vans

The black market, labelled the movin' target

Dwellin' in the heartless projects

Evil eyes hawkin', the BBS rims flossin'

The beat walk in, harassin' the street walkin'

They keep talkin', like the Rebel might slow up

They set me up to go up, the witness didn't show up

[Pre-Verse: Masta Killa]

They got their drugs on 'em (Slippin')

Bare approach the look out

[Verse 2: Masta Killa]

Be off the block by ten, the kite was sent

Then all those who dare to oppose were sent back

Chained to the train track, protect your jaw

These silverback niggas eat their oatmeal raw

Cee Allah sawed the shotti, Preme went down for a body

He killed Poppy, dusted in the lobby

Toxy off shocky, cops be harassin'

Tryna stop cash in the episodes pass

I flash back to guns and crack stashed in grass

You movin' savage

Please warn him of his ways and actions before I blast him

Then the homicide was justified when I arrive

Black tints on the glass with the stocking cap mask

It's all official, steel pistol style whip you to the gristle

While my team be stomping you out after the whistle

[Verse 3: GZA]

I went from the slums of Hell to paradise in Heaven

From a slingshot to a wall of MAC-11's

I drank with the Devil and ate with the Reverend

We talked numbers and I told 'em that mine was seven

The total amount of hits behind the collapsed building

That had exploded in a frenzy of killings

Bodies lay near tons of twisted metal

Of a structure and atomic force, it leveled

From the tale of the tape, the product failed in comparison

The weight, the height, the reach was not a year within

Sight, the significant, difference was the ammo

Wrecking y'all individuals in the nano

Second by second, heat blazed through the night

Leaving a dazzling array of neon lights

The primary reason of mission for them spitting

The fire that kept hitting them ducks that kept sitting

But the informants x-rays gave off electrons

Within a few next days, entire sets gone

Clinical precision's used to remove the eyelids

Those responsible for my brothers with high bids

Life in the hood is an award winning film

Lived out by savages who can't escape the realm

A place where the young meet and greet with guns

In the park they interrupt the pure innocent fun