Released on May 28, 1996

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[Intro]

Sup, how was your ride?

It was long, but I'm aight

True, true

So you takin care of yourself in here?

No question, I gets down for mines

Yeah I know, I heard a lot about you

Word? I'm sayin' tho—

Anyway, if you don't mind me askin, how'd you get into all of this?

Yo, it's a long story...


[Verse 1]

I started off light, knockin' off y'all packs for this kid Pat

He told me to take thirty and bring him the rest back

It didn't take long for my clientele to swell

Snitches started to tell, broke niggas was jail

'Cause they couldn't outhustle me, so they tried to muscle me

But I ain't pussy, y'all, I leave em dead like a Kennedy

Took a half a year to get a half a brick

My own shit, now I make profit on every flip

No more hand-to-hands (Uh-uh), I'm the big man now

Push a black Land Cruiser, pack a chrome trey-pound now

I'm smellin all the animos' in the air

Pat spreadin' rumors that he gon' take me outta here, what?

The fuck the bloodclot thinkin'?

My plan's to roll up in an old black Lincoln and leave him dead and stinkin'

And I'm a man of my word, word

I seen him on the curb smokin' herb

I made the Continental swerve

And hopped out and started lettin' off shots

And didn't stop until I seen his body drop

Then a nigga like me just skated

I know he was packin' steel, that made it drug-related

You know I'm sayin'?


[Chorus]

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

That's why guns we be totin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

That's why guns we be totin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'


[Verse 2]

I'm on the run from po-po

Some crab niggas pulled the bitch move

My blood pressure's high but I play it calm and smooth

Everybody's my enemy, can't trust no one

The last time I trusted trust I almost got done

So keep your eyes open and beware of the ruckus

'Cause life ain't nothin' but thirsty, gritty motherfuckers

I ran with niggas that will kill your mom dead

Keep it real is who I pumped into them niggas little heads

My granddad, he used to call me Killer, now I am

Everybody where I used to chill, fuck them

My mind was playin' tricks on me, shorty

Once I was like, "Turn yourself in and do the time" (Yo, fuck that)

The pigs wanted five, tell my moms I love her

And stay strong and don't fall

I'm in the hands of the Lord


[Chorus]

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

That's why guns we be totin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'

That's why guns we be totin'

Things happen, so keep your eyes open

Sheisty ones be scopin'