Block Episode

[Masta Ace]<br>Woke up this morning hearing shots below my project window<br>The TV`s on from playing all night on Nintendo<br>jumped out of bed tryin to see what`s up with all the noise and<br>I see somebody else has caught a case of lead poison<br>This type of shit around my way is a regular occurance<br>because the same shit just happened to my nigga Terrence<br>a week later now somebody else is laying dying<br>surrounded by a crowd of people and his momma crying<br>the way he`s laying there it looks to me that he`s a goner<br>I seen the cats who just did it run around the corner<br>I start to wonder who it is and why they had to wet him<br>I bet I knew him or at least I bet I probably met him<br>I can`t pretend I`m shocked like electrocution<br>cuz any night there could be an execution<br>my momma told me that that thug shit will get you buried<br>the next day there`s your name in the obituary<br>I asked her why we gotta live in this environment<br>She said Your grandfather drank up his retirement<br>plus when I fucked around and had you I was just a baby<br>Just maybe if I wasn`t being miss lady<br>things could`ve been a little bit better<br>threw on my jeans and my double knit sweater<br>I hit the block tryin to find out who got done in<br>Who had the gun and who that was I seen running<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Another body on the ground cold and<br>another day another lost soul and<br>same shit in every zip code<br>no matter where you go<br>its just another block episode<br>another story on the street told and<br>another turn down the wrong road and<br>sit back and watch it unfold<br>yo I`ll let you know<br>just another block episode<br> <br>[Punchline]<br>Yo, I roam the streets with my peeps and the gun by my crotch<br>I got beef with this cat that resides on my block<br>he getting popped i swear when I see him it`s on<br>He`ll just be a tattoo on his best friends arm<br>my friends screaming "Punch be calm" y`all can save it<br>He borrowed 5 G`s two months ago, still ain`t pay it<br>This girl hit me on the cell about his location<br>I grabbed my gun jumped in the hoopty then I started racing<br>turned off the lights a block away so he don`t peep the caper<br>I see him and a bunch of cats by the bodega<br>Don`t wanna kill him I just wanna teach this cat a lesson<br>Stepped on the gas grab the gun cocked back the weapon<br>shot up the whole corner but hit him in the kneecap<br>that`s cool cuz dead niggaz can`t pay your cash back<br>I`m nutting to laugh at I keep bad temper<br>I hit him a bystander and one of his crewmembers<br>(gunshot)<br><br>[Wordsworth]<br>yo yo yo yo, last thing I heard was a blast car circling past<br>I wasn`t nervous thought they might be searching for gas<br>soon as Rob came out dispersing the trash<br>car sped and lead went through his windows curtains and glass<br>dove in the dirt and the grass <br>I look bullet struck my right arm<br>glass in my left palm I lost my neck charm<br>I knew it was punch cuz Rob owed him money<br>but never had it always got new kicks and gear to match it<br>I`m in the ambulance I thought that beef was squashed<br>that`s why when he seen Punch he crossed the street and dodged<br>See Rob`s records with the DA and ???<br>my records 4.0 GPA going to Harvard<br>Athletes 100 miles and running he`s a convict<br>other hand my high school football team I lead in yardage<br>boys regardless blood pressure dropped artery vessel clogged<br>cardiac arrest next my chest was shocked IV<br>oxygen mask bleeding heavily<br>we need to get to the hospital fast I`m doing 70<br>why I gotta be a casuality of war did good most my life <br>my career was growing gradually and more<br>hearing "hold on, you`ll be alright, you`re gonna make it"<br>sirens up ahead construction on the pavement<br>slowed down from this moment I didn`t have a chance<br>see he didn`t have his flash can`t believe I died in the traffic jam<br><br>(*ambulance siren*)