Just a Moment

[Produced by L.E.S]

[Intro: Quan]

This is just a moment

Dedicated to my mother, my grandmother, my father

All my niggas in the pen', all my niggas that died in the struggle

Love y'all

[Verse 1: Quan]

Can we please have a moment of silence?

That's for my niggas doing years in confinement

And for my soldiers that passed over, no longer living

That couldn't run whenever the reaper came to get 'em

Can we please pour out some liquor?

Symbolizing this, taken time to consider that

Though our thugs ain't here, the love is here

And we gon' rep 'til slugs kill us here

This for my dogs, stuck in the struggle trying to gain

Smoking trauma, sniffing raw while selling cocaine

Trapped in the game, not knowing how to stop and get by

To live it alive, so instead they live it to die

Can we please have a moment of peace?

For every G that fell for his flag in the streets

Blooding and thugging, folking and loc'ing

Cripping and creeping, Latin and King'ing

Or just for poor righteous teaching

[Hook: Quan]

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

[Verse 2: Nas]

Yeah, and can we have another moment of silence?

For brothers who died from Black-on-Black violence

From here to the Dark Continent where rebels sell diamonds

To clients all over the world, got little black girls dying

And can we please pour some more liquors?

For Will, Bokeem, Bar, Pappy, my niggas

Here's another Warrior Song from Nasty and Quan

It's to him I pass the baton, to carry this on

Street's Disciple, salute to those who's gone with bullets

And I promise through rhyming, Quan gon' rep his life to the fullest

And can we please have a moment of truth?

For soldiers and troops away with helmets and boots

And families back home that pray they make it home safe

Hoping they don't get hit by a stray or missiles

This is just a moment to let you all know that we miss you

Mommy, I'm still here, wishing I was there with you

Let's take a moment

[Hook: Quan]

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

[Verse 3: Quan]

And can we please have a moment to mourn?

For Pac, Biggie, and Pun, 'cause through us they live on

Jam Master Jay, Freaky Tah, and Aaliyah

Big L and Left Eye, when we die we hope to see ya

Can we please have a moment for children?

Who got raped and murdered, or trapped in the system

Who never knew their father, never learned to dream

But was guided by drug dealers, killers, and crack fiends

For single mothers that's forced to play mom and dad

Busting her ass to give her kids' shit she never had

For my niggas in the pen, hoping rhymes'll get 'em signed

So when released, they can say bye to a life of crime

For every mother that held a son in the street, bleeding

Crying a song of sorrow, too dark and deep for speaking

Just a moment, outside the day-to-day struggle

To let the ones we really care about, know that we love 'em

[Hook: Quan]

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

As day comes and night falls

For the rest of our life, we'll miss y'all

And even though life must go on, we'll still mourn

While wishing y'all were home

[Outro: Quan]

Yo

To my baby brother Tech

We know you was little Dex, nigga

And to Fez, big bro holdin' it down for you, boy – just come home

I love you, my nigga

I do this for you and me

When I shine, you shine

And most important, to my sister Tia, out there in Iraq

Just know that we got the babies

My nephew, he's gon' be fine

Put my life and my blood on that

We love y'all

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