Emmett Till had an open casket
Jet Magazine showed Till's corpse
Beaten, mutilated, shot through the head
His mama chose to show the world
Can't deny the atrocities
That's why everything I say
The truth to fulfill all the prophecies
I hit my knees and give thanks
For those who paved the path to roy alty 40 plus I'm still fresh,
You pressed play on the tape
Battle rappin' and backpackin'
so that track rappin' will never do
The tape was blue, my hood was lit
Cloak would tell the gang,
Affiliated and tolerated, no disrespect
And anybody that violated
Tell me how it sound, tell me how it feel
To know that they was fak in',
and all my real ones feel this,
and all my real ones feel this,
tell me how it sounds, tell me how it feels,
to know that they was faking,
and all my real ones feel this,
and all my real ones feel this,
I only rap about what I know about,
you pay some real niggas,
like gangsta kids said, lets
with future killers and millionaires,
Now I watch the homies' kids
Rival gangbangers coachin'
I know that peace is real,
There's power in the hood,
power live on every block
The revolution can't start
Street rules, that G code, that real shit
For real thugs, real bloods,
Street rules, G code, that real shit
For real thugs, real bloods,
Tell me how it sounds, tell me how it feels
To know that they was faking,
And all my real ones feel this
And all my real ones feel this
Tell me how it sound, tell me how it feel
To know that they was fake
and know that he was real
And all my real ones feel this
And all my real ones feel this
And all my real ones feel this
And all my real ones feel this
You press play on the tape