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

**** 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

*****, time never stops, it just keeps on going

Crackers just gave my young ***** four life sentences

Twenty-five times four, *****, do the math

And the hood never have witnesses

Cause if we did, then them shots gon' blast

[02:04][03:05]As I reflect, I start realizing I wanna

[02:08][03:09]Make a way one day for me and my momma, family and friends

[02:14][03:15]This ain't the way my life bout to end

[02:16][03:17]So I'm quick to grab on my pen and

[02:19][03:20]Give 'em something my people sure to feel

[02:21][03:22]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

****** said 'cuz lil ***** got blasted

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

Only time you with it, when your ****** 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 ************ 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, pause

And if you in close range with a ***** with a gun in his waist

I pray the intervention is divine

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

But earlier than expected, what the hell?