DEFENDER'S RAP

• Broken glass in the hallway, bloodstained floors
• Neighbors, look at every bag you bring through your doors
• Lock the top lock, momma shoulda cuffed me to the radiator
• Why not? It might've saved later from my block
• N.Y. cops, hookers crawlin off the stroll, coughin
• Stitches in they head, stinkin and I dread thinkin they be snitchin
• But who else, could it be, shook at these, unmarked vans
• Parked in the dark -- NARC's, where's your heart?
• Hustlers starvethey bust a U-e I jog
• To my building -- come out later wearin camouflage
• See the sergeant and the captain -- strangle men
• Niggaz gaspin for airtil they move no more and just stare
• With dead eyes -- tired of riots, shit is quiet
• Simple-minded fools infiltrate grimy crews
• Overcrowded cribs, uncles home from bids, sister's pregnant
• Father's on drugs, moms is smokin, beds is piss-infested
• Had eight partners growin up, eight turned to seven
• Seven turned to six niggaz, got two in heaven
• Six of us, holdin it, now it's five rollin thick
• The sixth one's parole flippedfive niggaz, went to fo' quick
• When he went O.T., college life, converted into gangbangin
• Four niggaz still hangin, years passed and slang changin
• Three of us now, fourth nigga ain't around
• We all thought he was real -- he did the snake shit
• Fake shit -- beat his ass down, yo his mouth
• Could've got us all wasted, what a fuckin clown
• All I got left in the end is two of my best friends
• And we all goin out, to the death for these ends,