This one goes out to all
the soldiers in the streets.
I didn't make it to dance too.
It could be the last dance.
So I want you to stop.
Stop and think for a minute.
Why are you killing yourselves?
me why
Why are brothers killing brothers?
My brother
Why is anyone killing each other?
Street soldier God help me
What's up God help me
Just another day, another drive -by,
just like that somebody else dies,
but you have a number
Is it up to date?
I can't worry about that
How many times do you think
you can take someone else
Before the knock at the door
comes and you recognize it
It's death
Looking you straight in the eyes
I got to be strong
A street soldier checking in, it's life
That's the way a street soldier lives
I don't know about you my brother
But I don't want to go out like
that
How many times can someone tell you
that killing makes a man?
On the block that I grew up on,
if you was living, you was in, man.
Yeah, I see what you mean.
So many people locked down.
It's hard to keep up with all
the names.
Another victim.
Another sucker to the game.
can't knock a man
for trying to survive.
I wouldn't do that, I know what's up.
You know what time it is, man.
But why survive for four or five years
and check in the rest of your life?
I want to give up my life like that.
Nah, it just don't seem
to make sense.
There's got to be another way.
What's up, skilled soldier?
What are you going to do?
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, nine,
You've seen them go to hell.
One day you're just kickin' it, laughin',
lovin'.
You've gotten so cold,
so used to it,
watching your brother die.
It's not like you
Sometime I wonder
You're walking but are you really alive?
You lost the ability to love
What a price to pay
Sisters and brothers
They don't even know
you anymore
They don't even come your way
When you first started slinging that dope
You know, you said you was
doing it for the money.
Now the same crackhead jokes
you used to make about somebody else,
they making them about you man,
life sure is hard.
I remember you man,
when you weighed about 210,
you know, trying to handle
your business.
Now you're weighing a buck
and a quarter.
Don't go out like this.
Don't go out like this,
it's never too late,
pull yourself together man,
killin it where it is,
to live is great,
if you can live, pray for me man. you