Veteran's Memorial

[Verse 1]

Memories play back like film

I flash back, we was little niggas, living most real

1989's when we first met

We first clicked over convo, gettin' twisted

And dunn ran Earth's crib, cutting outta school

Watching cable, it seemed like the other day

Through the eyes of a stranger, we was kids

But in our own minds, we was grown mens

Outside on the block, we would play the bench

And y'all play the rock every chance y'all got

Whilst I sat back and just watched

Hey, what can I say?

The same back then as I am today

I can recall me, Jamil, and Jamal

In the room drinking straight vodka with they moms

When I'd walk home with the big Nefertiti charm

Back with the light blue camoflauge suit, god

Me and Hav' doing it hard, trying to get on

We sample songs on the box with Record and Pause

Killa B didn't even get his first firearm

And I was still holding one shot derringers

[Chorus]

Who would think any one of us would cease to exist?

Left with just thoughts of the past to reminisce

Sometimes I see a chick walking past with ya kids

Or find an old flick of us on 1-2-5th

All the shit that we been through, it boils to this?

Dunn, I wish we could start it all over again

[Verse 2]

'95, we on top, touring the States

A lotta times we even took the click overseas

Came a long way from the hallway

Sitting in the staircase with Bacardi

Bring the honeycomb speaker outside to bang

While we would share drinks with the other that came

Triple L stayed taking they cash in dice games

Killa Black grew to keep an ice grill, dunn was not playin'

Yammy, The Most Infamous, told me one day

"Put the bogies down, 'fore I pound you out, P"

But it was all love, we was each other's dunns

We held each other down, borrowed each other guns

It's hard to believe that niggas so strong

Could die so easily, forever be gone

I could still feel the web of your palm against mine

'Cause we did our handshake all the time

Why it have to be your time to go, and not mines?

Spilled tears, contemplating to my delf, cryin'

All the laughs we shared, and fights we had

All the nights we would get nice, damn

Plates of food we split in half

I dedicate the rest of my life to all my niggas that's passed

[Chorus]

Who would think any one of us would cease to exist?

Left with just thoughts of the past to reminisce

Sometimes I see a chick walking past with ya kids

Or find an old flick of us on 1-2-5th

All the shit that we been through, it boils to this?

Dunn, I wish we could start it all over again

[Outro]

What's the fuckin' deal?

Motherfuckin' Scarface, nigga

Killa, for Bean, Fugi, Gooey

I can't take no more, nigga

Corey, Black Ed, the fuck, namsayin'?

Ill Will burnin', Harry

Fuck yo, I can't take no more, man

Frankie, Spank, whattup man? Straight up

My grandmoms, man

My granddad, man

Grandma Brooks, straight up

My pops, man... straight up, man

That's it, all my dead, all my dead...

Man, the little babies, man, no more, man

Abortion babies, man

I can't take no more, man

I'll never forget you, all my dead, it's all love, man

Motherfuckin' Yambo, in a minute, we'll be there

Motherfuckin' Yammy, straight up, I can't wait

You was my strength, nigga, I miss y'all

I can't believe you gone, nigga

(You was supposed to be right here)

What the fuck happened?

Ain't nobody else goin' away, man

You ain't takin' nothin' else from me, man

Nobody can't take nothin' else from me, man, that's it

I dare you! Come try, it's over, man

You can't take nothin' else from us, yo

That's my word, I put my life on it

I'll be next, nigga, straight up

I'll stand up for that, 'cause ain't none of my niggas goin'

That's enough, we had enough

It's the Veteran's Memorial right here, man

Straight up, man

We love y'all, one love