The Oath

[Intro: Kumasi from "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" sample] One thing you have to realize If you opened them up, there would be a stamp under their shirt that Says 'Made in America" Ok, not no place else They weren't made in Taiwan or you know, Indonesia They were made in America [Interlude: N.O.R.E. + sample] The family is the family This oath is this oath And I will die before I break it And when we grow, we grow as one "I've sworn an oath" [Verse 1: N.O.R.E.] Late night fistfights, with bare knuckles Nowadays, niggas probably wouldn't dare scuffle It's big guns aimed at your nozzle, big Roscoe Donnie Brasco wish death to they vato Cigarette smoking, on the crater for the corner store Same place as the ambulance and corridor Growing up seeing dead bodies in the lobby I used to hate the smell of it, then I got used to it Just for the hell of it, young man, intelligent I always know that the police was the enemy And every dead president I make will be a friend of me Bitches ain't shit, cuz most of them is evil And most of them hoes start more wars than we do Circle, cycle, three sixty trifling When a baby is born somebody else life end From the birth canal to the hearse, we enlighten [Interlude: Capone + sample] The family is the family This oath is this oath And I will die before I break it And when we grow, we grow as one "I've sworn an oath" [Verse 2: Capone] Ayo, dead bodies found in the building, OD'ing on heroine Early morning, needing they medicine Elephant arms, used to control the bombs Islam, ay Shallah, niggas bulletproof kufis Just to live out another script in this life's movie The corner's snatch you, murder if you have to Dead niggas can't talk, they haunt like a castle I wasn't the type that go out tagging I spray your face like a PD, I was chopping and bagging Capone-N-Noreaga, that's a blood oath, prick fingers Like Albert Anastasia, the wildest nature My calibrators on a higher level, I riot with the devil Walk righteous, canaries in them bezel Death before dishonor, money over bitches I'm my brother's keeper I throw the world in the sleeper, I'm so eager to blast Bilingual, I be speaking in cash [Interlude: Raekwon + sample] The family is the family This oath is this oath And I will die before I break it And when we grow, we grow as one "I've sworn an oath" [Verse 3: Raekwon] Shallah, a letter to the loyal, we dedicated, most of us elevated Or fell into a pine box that's ultra suaded Cast iron metal, new Beretta's, blue leathers Snake bites, Timberlands, few gelettas Reward me a God, I'm a multiple crop, multiple stocks They violate us they get multiple shots You might get picked off, or toast two with Heinekens We under the building, designer gems on with uzi's, hoodie coogi's All I know is prosper, lobster fish, this is a mobster dish Fly around in Masi's, sipping sakes Twenty one iron down allegiance, the days of repentance We hate bosses, we just know the consequences Used to sniff, pull out then squeeze, now I roll with a gift My only rift is why we coaching them thieves We just Allah babies, save us from the block, and keep our family one And pray five times a day, saves alot [Interlude: Busta Rhymes + sample] The family is the family This oath is this oath And I will die before I break it And when we grow, we grow as one "I've sworn an oath" [Verse 4: Busta Rhymes] Russian Roulette, nigga—pull it! Shots tear smell us when you move like you stupid Pop 'berg, water boil bubble when I cook it Look it, the criminal mind niggas that's crooked Speak third person, nigga, build with my liaison We move quiet, nigga, more secretive than a Mason Based on, the coppers handle niggas when they bust 'em I'm honoring an oath, while we live by the old customs Politic with foreign niggas, regular, we fly the jets Speaking in code, when they struggle, unravel the dialect Every kind of foreign currency is what we try to get it Crap table gamble, nigga, hunt your million dollar bet Better know I must collect, hope you got it for me And an oath is something I learned is alluded as a shorty, now I hope you niggas don't mistake it Will defend it and later in a grave before we break it