Alive On Arrival

Down at the best spot<br>Its me and JD and they sellin more birds than a pet shop<br>The spot`s hot and everybody nervous<br>That`s when the blue car served us<br>Oh why did fools had to let loose<br>Heard six pops from a deuce deuce<br>Big Tom had to push us<br>13 niggaz runnin straight to the bushes<br>For they gats so they could draw down<br>But why a motherfucker like me had to fall down<br>Not known why I dropped out<br>Fuck it, still can`t afford to get popped out<br>So now I gotta jet<br>Only ran one block, but my shirt soakin wet<br>Tryin to see if we got him<br>Looked down at my sweatshirt red at the bottom<br>Didn`t panic but I still looked cracked out<br>Yelled to the homies then I blacked out<br><br>Woke up in the back of a tray<br>On my way, to MLK<br>That the county hospital jack<br>Where niggaz die over a little scratch<br>Still sittin in the trauma center<br>In my back is where the bullet entered<br>Yo nurse I`m gettin kind of warm<br>Bitch still made me fill out the fuckin form<br>Coughin up blood on my hands and knees<br>Then I heard "freeze nigger don`t move"<br>Yo, I didn`t do a thing<br>Didn`t wanna go out like my man Rodney King<br>Still got gaffled<br>Internal bleeding as the bullet starts to travel<br>Now I`m handcuffed<br>Being asked information on my gang affiliation<br>I don`t bang, I rock the good rhymes<br>And I`m a victim of neighborhood crime<br><br>I need to see a MD<br>And ya`ll mothafuckers giving me the third degree<br>Look at the waiting room<br>Its filled to the rim like the county jail day room<br>Nobody gettin help<br>Since we poor<br>The hospital move slow<br>Now I`m layed out<br>People steppin over me to get closer to the tv<br>Just like a piece of dog shit<br>Now will I die on this nappy ass carpet<br>One hour done passed<br>Done watched two episodes of M*A*S*H<br>And when I`m almost through<br>They call my name and put me on ICU<br>Halfway dead<br>No respect and handcuffed to the bed<br>Now the trauma starts<br>Cause the bullet must be just a hair from my heart<br>So I begin the ass kissin<br>Just to get looked at by an overworked physician<br>Got the chills, but my temperatures 103<br>Only got a band-aid and an IV<br>That`s when I start cussin<br>Police steady askin me who did the bustin<br><br>Why oh why can`t I get help<br>Cause I`m black, I gots to go for self<br>Too many black bodies the hospital housin<br>So at 10 P.M. I was Audi 5000