Fugees, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, Pras - Red Intro(1996)

[00:10.92] Yo, this fucker I was wit the other day, I was chillin'
[00:12.50] With Scott and the minute that we got in front of our
[00:14.83] Crib with a shotgun. Cause jokers gonna be bustin' up
[00:18.05] In there trying to get food, clothing, shelter, TV's, forks,
[00:21.60] Radios or whatever they can get there hands on. Shit
[00:23.72] Is getting mad ill out here man. Joker's running out here
[00:26.92] Like with MASKS on; I was with my man Pee, he think
[00:29.25] He like Charlie Chan or Robert De Niro
[00:31.02] Or Bruce Lee or some shit, jumping from behind trees on
[00:33.76] Muhfuckas, like Cowboys BANG BANG or whatever you
[00:37.00] Know. Trying to shoot a joker he had beef with, he wound
[00:39.79] Up shootin my man up in the street, tyring to be Cowboys
[00:42.55] They can't even shoot, trying to be gangsta's but when the
[00:45.48] Beast come on the muthafuckin' block everybody break out.
[00:48.09] They beat my man Bob G. up the other day, cops, pigs vampin'
[00:50.65] On him, everybody just standin' around just watching that
[00:54.34] Shit take place. Cause they only gangsta's when it comes to
[00:58.54] Being gangsta's to themselves. They want to be Corleone, Luigi,
[01:00.84] Or Gambino or Gotti or whatever the fuck. They run around callin'
[01:06.04] Themselves Rahiem or Fuquan or Mustapha cause we think they
[01:11.38] Got power, but fuck them, I got power. I got power, I got family,
[01:14.75] I got Family Business on Avon, on Chancellor, on Prince Street
[01:18.11] On Chadwick, on Stratford on Chancellor on Vailsburg. All of the
[01:22.27] Brick City. That's my family, we gonna settle The SCORE, once
[01:25.12] And for all. I'm not lettin' nobody I'm going out like
[01:31.12] A bandit. And all of these ZEALOTS trying to steal and trying to
[01:33.04] Bite what I got like all of these big record companies, these
[01:36.36] Corporations these stores they try to rob me. Naw man, I'm going,
[01:39.57] I'm a get mine. Me and my girl we gonna go out together
[01:41.89] We gonna be a soldier kid. When I go out, she go out. And we
[01:45.08] Gonna make what we believe Manifest cause if you ain't Ready
[01:46.82] Now, you ain't never gonna be ready . . .
[01:47.12] I'm always ready.
[01:47.68] Ras Baraka
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