Now if you load your rifle right And if you fix your bayonet so And if you k** that man my friend The one we call the foe I'm about to open up your mind a little bit more this time (check it, check it) It's like a whole different world now, when a was younger I hung around this kid who was like my third brother Watched out for each other, felt another's pain And back in the day we even used to dress the same I know things changed from the world to the game But the strange thing is, I forget that kid's name We grew up on the same block, come for 20 years I forget how he looks but the past is very clear We wrote our first rhyme together Got drunk our first time together sh**, I thought we'd get signed together These are days when we still got along Chilled in the studio and k**ed every songs Hey yo, 1996, shortly after graduation He flipped his attitude, we started having situations Started acting weird, stealing sh** from the mall And I know it ain't that bad, but I'm the one who took the fall (What are best friends for, right?) Yeah, that's when I realized that this guy was a a**hole inside Lying, conniving, can't deal with that sh** Keep on getting me in trouble, I'm about ready to split Now if you load your rifle right And if you fix your bayonet so And if you k** that man my friend The one we call the foe [x2] Yo, I let the record keep spinning And everything is different now from the beginning And try to hang with him, and I can't say I miss him I'm trying to elevate, stay away from all the bullsh** and keep a mental state And as the days goes by, yo, the months and the years I was running in the clear but always felt that he was there Always felt he was around, I started feeling weird How's this kid affecting me when I ain't talked to him in years I couldn't take it son, I had enough! So I made my way downtown and got drunk as f**! 20 minutes walk home, took about a hour Tried to get sober quick by jumping in the shower Got out, slipped, hit the toilet, then my blood started to drip from the forehead I stumble to my feet and everything became clearer I saw my best friend, bleeding in the mirror Now if you load your rifle right And if you fix your bayonet so And if you k** that man my friend The one we call the foe [x2]