Remember His Name - Album Version (Edited)

SOUP

It's me Daakir

And I was sitting at the television feelin' disturbed

Yo I just got the word of Denker and 83rd

Some cat that got clapped

AKIL (Gangsta rapper?)

SOUP

Perhaps

But I was looking at the face of one particular cat

Now I done seen him before

AKIL (Can you remember where at?)

SOUP

Well it was either at the liquor store or laundromat

Or at a party n' shit

A drive thru of the Quick 'n' Split but

The fellas he ran with they no longer exist

AKIL

O dude peep this

I know dude

I've been knowin him all my life

Ever since I was young

I used to see them shooting dice

On occasions I would see him once or twice

With all types, many different walks of life

He tried to keep in touch

But I knew what was up

Every time he came around and showed his face

I duck

In the mid-eighties the nigga went crazy

He had a lot of ladies selling their babies

The nigga was shady

But he had a lot of friends that he would visit on the weekends

Thrill seekin'

Influenced by His teachings

My daddy knew him, yo

He met him at a hotel

My homeboy Johnny kicked it with him in a jail cell

A lot of people met him with a female

Doing real well, connected with the drug sale

The rich and the poor

For better for worse

The last and the first

Walk the earth but can't avoid his turf

And it hurts my brain

It's driving me insane

It's a shame I can't remember his name

I think Tuna know dude

Soup I ain't tryin to be rude

But my wife just cooked

I'm bout to grub on some food

SOUP

Aight peace, Tun and Sev probably running the street

I'm bout to give these young brothers a beep

CHALI (Yo, Salaam Alaikum)

SOUP Yo, wa alaykum Salaam

CHALI Yo what's up on 83rd

Man a feudin' is on

The reason that I called

That was the cat from my building

You seen him?

CHALI

Ya we met that brother out in Pasadena

Remember 7?

MARC 7

On Marengo

No my mistake we was right between Fair Oaks and Lake

Tryin to take us a lunch break

MARC 7

And cop us a --sess sack

CHALI

But had to drive right past the place where they rest at

MARC 7

We drove in a hatchback

CHALI

Corolla these cats pack pistolas

The Cadillac they drove

MARC 7

It was brown and black

CHALI

Patrolling the hood

Looking for trouble

Saw us purchasing trees

Lurking with speed

They pulled the strap

And was irking to squeeze

MARC 7

You jerk and you bleed

CHALI

We do it in reverse and we flee

MARC 7

Or should we say fled

CHALI

They wanted to make us more than play dead

Flashing his heat

MARC 7

Two cars were moving fast in the street

CHALI

That's when I meet that dude

Was in his back passenger seat

SOUP (Yo that shit was deep)

CHALI

But still I can't remember his name