[Intro: 360 Degree] My youth let me tell you a story about Baldo Banton Me swear the man there run things Back then me a youth The youth them Admire him The ghetto youth they want to be just like him They want to be a hero leader Run things Him have all the girls Yeah man you think me no want one too [Verse 1: Centri] 1. Kingston Jamaica Gun shot him wake up 2. No time to bake up or for her to put on make up 3. Manley Seaga wars have just start up 4. Him nah shake up he equipped and fully armored 5. Cool calm collective temper of molten lava 6. Name Bando Banton beginning of a saga zen 7. Legendary by all means necessary 8. Streets stay hot from February to February 9. Every now he thinks why is he gangsta 10. He grew up in the gutter facing nothing but problems 11. He coulda been farmer righteous like his father 12. Tried a little harder maybe even a doctor 13. But at that second he sees enemies approaching 14. 10 seconds later nothing but guns smoking 15. The one man standing with the cannon says the quote 16. Rude boy gone dead taking me for joke and my gun provoked blah Hook: Some boys see me gun nozzle and take a we fi joke Boy you gwan dead before you see me gun smoke See me gun nozzle and take me fi joke You gwan dead, from a me you provoke [Verse 2: Centri] 1. Drug lords and Crooked Police Forces 2. Pit stops to see the mob bosses 3. Round table the henchmen look nauseous 4. Master don shows pictures of many corpses 5. Bad man slammed the table screaming crosses 6. Banton we taking to many losses 7. But him no like no raising of them voices
8. But him no like no strangers giving him choices 9. Peter Tosh calm him down as the song play 10. He'll k** you like the Ackee fruit cooked up the wrong way 11. Gunshot Banton not care who fired them 12. Everyone's an enemy he's thinking expire them 13. Bullets flying henchmen keep dying 14. Bystanders diving Bossman who keeps crying 15. Puts barrel down the boss man throat before he quote 16. Big fat man choke on gun smoke when me gun provoked Hook: Some boys see me gun nozzle and take a we fi joke Boy you gwan dead before you see me gun smoke See me gun nozzle and take me fi joke You gwan dead, from a me you provoke [Verse 3: Centri] 1. A life sentence in prison Baldos facing 2. The judge makes a joke while he waiting 3. God forsaken many lives you have taken 4. Why you k** so much what you no like Jamaicans 5. Banton says it was self preservation 6. Around me people's hearts fill with satin 7. It's amazing peace I'm embracing 8. But if they try to come for my life guns are blazing 9. The judge takes a 2nd look at his case then 10. He says Baldo I'm a give you probation 11. Cause I respect your right to self defense 12. Do what you must Protect the life of your self wife and kids 13. Baldo walks out the court room smiling 14. The whole town of Kingston is Irie 15. Baldo looks at the crowd before he spoke 16. Beware of the quiet man riot when me gun provoked Hook: Some boys see me gun nozzle and take a we fi joke Boy you gwan dead before you see me gun smoke See me gun nozzle and take me fi joke You gwan dead, from a me you provoke