It Ain’t Safe

Lyrics

[Intro] Yo Fatboy, yo Fatboy, guess what kid Yo dude, don't come in my room without knockin' Son I'm sayin' yo, niggas just smoked Woody around the corner kid Word to mother son, niggas smoked that nigga, it's real in the buildin' Who, who smoked him? I don't know kid, niggas said it could've been anybody kid Word kid Niggas said it might have been the... Woody Yo man, that's fucked up Shit is real, it ain't safe no more [Verse 1] Whose family I often ask when I drop past And look for so called friends that I grew up with But true friends are hard to find, my mother once told me: ''Most that you know are just associates'' Paid no heed to the lesson bein' taught Thought I was a genius (Bang!) till I got caught Set up, wet up, 2Pac said: ''Keep your head up'' The needy, the greedy, they all wanna bе me Or see me fall but regardlеss I stand stall 6 feet 1 and dark, rough like tree bark Observin' my cipher, will I peep the vipers? The low-life snakes, the common, the fakes I'm sorry doesn't mean what was done was a mistake Now I'm strapped like bamboo, I got moves to make Some may say: ''Chill, it ain't no need for a war'' But I'm keepin' it real, it ain't safe no more [Chorus: Samples] It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) [Verse 2] I'm livin' in a crack era where rowdy niggas' Fingers are quick to serenade triggers Sectionin' and welfare's a petrified state Cracks are major, shorties 10 with the sky pager Hoods be on the attack 'cause they unemployed So give it up 'cause they quick to stab your life boy Last night a man lost his only life He died beside his wife, somebody did 'em with a rebel knife While laser put you in the catacombs Brothers are sworn a stone for goin' on a murder syndrome I often ponder on the facts of how we kill each other Devils be comin' in all sizes, shapes and colors I literally saw a man's brain tissue in the street congeal I'm in a minor phase of hell, and like the flesh on a dead carcass Times is raw, it ain't safe no more [Chorus: Samples] It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) [Verse 3] I used to say my man, now I say this kid I know 'Cause friends don't violate it, if they do, they gotta go But if they gotta go, they never really were your friends But nowadays friends even fry you in the end So when you stand alone, you know alone that's how you stand You have to trust your instincts before you trust the next man Trust got my man Woody murdered on the next block Trust got me shot for some cash 'bout my man's Glock So pack a joint and stay on point, don't be sleepin' Even chicken heads be on the streets schemin' and creepin' So keep everybody in they place Just 'cause they smile in your face don't mean that it's safe [Chorus: Samples] It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back) It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back, back) [Outro] There will come a time when a man will kill a man and not know why he has killed that man. And the one bein' slain will not know the reason for what he's bein' killed. That time is now...