Just a Moment

Lyrics

[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 One