veteran's memorial

memories play back like film

i flash back we was little niggas livin most real

1989's when we first met

we first clicked over convo' gettin twisted

in dunn grand earth crib cuttin outta school

watchin cable it seemed like the other day

through the eyes of a stranger we was kids

but in our own minds we was grown mens

outside on the block we would play the bench

and y'all play the rock every chance y'all got

as i sat back and just watched hey

what can i say?

the same back then as i am today

i can recall me

jemel and jamal

in the room drinkin straight vodka with they moms

when i walk home with the big nefertiti charm

back with the light blue camoflauge suit

god me and hav' doin it hard

tryin to get on

we sampled songs on the box with record and pause

killer b didn't even get his first firearm

and i was still holdin one shot derringers

who would think anyone of us would cease to exist

left with just thoughts of the past to reminisce

sometimes i see a chick walkin past with ya kids

or find an old flicka of some 1-2-5th

all the shit that we been through it boils to this?

dun

i wish we could start it all over again

ninety-five

we on top tourin the states

a lotta times we even took the click overseas

came along way from the hallway

sitting in the staircase with bacardi

bring the honeycomb speaker outside to bang

while we would share drinks with the other that came

triple l stayed takin they cash in dice games

killer black grew to keep an ice grill

dunn was not playin

yammy

the most infamous told me one day

put the bogies down 'fore i pound you out p"