Block Episode

Woke up this morning hearing shots below my project window
 The TV's on from playing all night on Nintendo
 jumped out of bed tryin to see what's up with all the noise and
 I see somebody else has caught a case of lead poison
 This type of shit around my way is a regular occurance
 because the same shit just happened to my nigga Terrence
 a week later now somebody else is laying dying
 surrounded by a crowd of people and his momma crying
 the way he's laying there it looks to me that he's a goner
 I seen the cats who just did it run around the corner
 I start to wonder who it is and why they had to wet him
 I bet I knew him or at least I bet I probably met him
 I can't pretend I'm shocked like electrocution
 cuz any night there could be an execution
 my momma told me that that thug shit will get you buried
 the next day there's your name in the obituary
 I asked her why we gotta live in this environment
 She said Your grandfather drank up his retirement
 plus when I fucked around and had you I was just a baby
 Just maybe if I wasn't being miss lady
 things could've been a little bit better
 threw on my jeans and my double knit sweater
 I hit the block tryin to find out who got done in
 Who had the gun and who that was I seen running
 Another body on the ground cold and
 another day another lost soul and
 same shit in every zip code
 no matter where you go
 its just another block episode
 another story on the street told and
 another turn down the wrong road and
 sit back and watch it unfold
 yo I'll let you know
 just another block episode
 Yo, I roam the streets with my peeps and the gun by my crotch
 I got beef with this cat that resides on my block
 he getting popped i swear when I see him it's on
 He'll just be a tattoo on his best friends arm
 my friends screaming "Punch be calm" y'all can save it
 He borrowed 5 G's two months ago, still ain't pay it
 This girl hit me on the cell about his location
 I grabbed my gun jumped in the hoopty then I started racing
 turned off the lights a block away so he don't peep the caper
 I see him and a bunch of cats by the bodega
 Don't wanna kill him I just wanna teach this cat a lesson
 Stepped on the gas grab the gun cocked back the weapon
 shot up the whole corner but hit him in the kneecap
 that's cool cuz dead niggaz can't pay your cash back
 I'm nutting to laugh at I keep bad temper
 I hit him a bystander and one of his crewmembers
 yo yo yo yo, last thing I heard was a blast car circling past
 I wasn't nervous thought they might be searching for gas
 soon as Rob came out dispersing the trash
 car sped and lead went through his windows curtains and glass
 dove in the dirt and the grass
 I look bullet struck my right arm
 glass in my left palm I lost my neck charm
 I knew it was punch cuz Rob owed him money
 but never had it always got new kicks and gear to match it
 I'm in the ambulance I thought that beef was squashed
 that's why when he seen Punch he crossed the street and dodged
 See Rob's records with the DA and???
 my records 4.0 GPA going to Harvard
 Athletes 100 miles and running he's a convict
 other hand my high school football team I lead in yardage
 boys regardless blood pressure dropped artery vessel clogged
 cardiac arrest next my chest was shocked IV
 oxygen mask bleeding heavily
 we need to get to the hospital fast I'm doing 70
 why I gotta be a casuality of war did good most my life
 my career was growing gradually and more
 hearing "hold on, you'll be alright, you're gonna make it"
 sirens up ahead construction on the pavement
 slowed down from this moment I didn't have a chance
 see he didn't have his flash can't believe I died in the traffic jam