[Verse 1]
Don't say sticks and stones, they might break your bones
But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome
I'm talkin about the toe-taggin, huh, the body-baggin
Man, n***as are dyin, huh, mommas are cryin
Casket buyin, who, me dyin, leave my family cryin?
Hell no, I cause, um, bloodbaths and showers
Send me commissary, motherf** them flowers
Thoughts of slaughter, of leaving my daughters
Hours and hours of fears running through my mind
As I pick up the Zig 9
Beef starts with the shove then ends with the shovel
And n***as standing on your corner reminiscing of you
But your a** is out and you're dead and gone
So who'd you rather be? The murdered, or the murderer?
n***as got me stressed, I got my Tek and my vest
And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse
Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse
For we'll be tried by 12 and fertilizing daisies
Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies
Due to the fact that d**h is a must
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
n***as getting bust for in God we trust
So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down
You must be casket-bound
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Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
n***a, I sign my name on the book at your funeral
The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
[Verse 2]
La-di-da-di, Saturday night and we like to party
The punks are f**ing around so we might catch a body
Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody
So what they tryin to get? I already got it
Chump motherf**ers just a-schemin on my sh**
But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip
And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
Aw sh**, murder commit
And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic
The witness say I'm wicked but that's how I kick it
Cause I'll be the ba*tard who blasts and didn't get blasted
Boy kiss dem casket, I cut your wig back kid
s**er, look who died, body will be identified
Momma and poppa will cry, your b**h-a** man says he'll testify
To see me tried, but his a** lie'd
Upon the same corner that you did and I'm still facing a bid
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