Once upon a time
You was here
But if your legacy
Ain’t made clear
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

Once upon a time
You was here
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

357 blue steel
Snub nose
Six hollow tips
Outfits spectaculous
I come in my savage fit
Excuse me
What’s your name is
She like watch
But it’s scandalous
With a kiss
I ain’t worried about that sucka shit
I’m dipping off to get rich
I got a legacy
I’m trying to make clear
And a friend to stand here
I got army guns
And if you thinking about war
My n***a let’s have some fun
You could feel them shots
Tupac on the flow
A mass a day in the studio
My friends
Feel like the world purple
For a Crip
And take a trip
And vacay
Off the flip
Mentality different
Cannabis twisted
Militant killer tree
So imagine if his hands up
And you kill me
Cause the color of my skin
That’ s fucked
(News announcer: An unarmed Black behavioral therapist shot by police on the street. Watch just moments before the shooting you can see his hands raised in the air)
Once upon a time
You was here
But if your legacy
Ain’t made clear
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

Once upon a time
You was here
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

Sometimes I wonder why
We stay blazing
Getting high tryna
Forget my n***as
Who ain’t make it
In a world
Were it feels forsaken
I never ride naked

I got some bitches
That’s caking
They getting caked
Cause they baking
I’m way too
Real to be fucking with
Bustas and bitches
That be faking
This ain’t no mother fucking movie
N***a gotta keep it real
Can’t be bougie
I’m going bougie bad ass
On that ass
In a flash
To find my cash
And they mad
I’m giving they bitch
Something she never had
A real dad
And she glad
To do the math
On the Ath
For that wavy n***a
Getting shined on
It’s all gravy n***a
Fuck you pay me n***a
Cause stipulations
Bigger when you living the legacy
As a mob figure

Just me and my
Mob n***as
I thought I was
All alone
My killers
Be reaping it
The evens and odds
N***a
Some of my n***as die
From haters
Some of my n***as die
From getting paper
You shouldn’t hate
To see a n***a
Living major

With a 9MM
The only flavor
I savor neighbor
Time gone by
Puffing on this lie lie
My life a motion picture
For some of you
That’s hard to swallow
Follow me close
You can feel my n***a ghost
His spirit
Living through a G
I can keep your name
In these streets
The way it was meant to be
My n***a Bukkis

Once upon a time
You was here
But if your legacy
Ain’t made clear
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there
Once upon a time
You was here
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

What your life like
I found mine
Praise God
I wake up
With a sound mind
You lose a lot of sleep
And I’m on cloud nine

Cause sooner ender doom ya
Cause I gotta provide
Gotta struggle and strive
Get by
And try to stay alive

Yeah
It’s n***a hunting season
They don’t move this heat this breathing
Leave you bleeding
They don’t even need
A reason
As black folk
Boy we better
Stick together
They gonna round us up
We don’t get our shit
Together

Teach the the children
About the pilgrim
Show them that
He was a villain
Steady calling us n***as
But really them n***as chillin
Our brothers hanging from trees
Blood staining the leaves
Call us evil
Take Crayolas
Paint a picture
Really?
(We are exploited, we are downtrodden‚ we are denied not only civiil rights but even human rights. So the only way we are going to get some of this oppression and exploitation‚ away from us signs for us‚ is to come together against the common enemy.)

Next time you might not be there
Next time you might not be there

Once upon a time
You was here
But if your legacy
Ain’t made clear
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there

Once upon a time
You was here
Next time
You might not be there
Next time
You might not be there


Nipsey Hustle, “If you share this it’s just like everything else. Africa was full of natural resources. All the diamonds they came and got ‘em.. All the gold they came and got it. All the n***as they came and got us. The main thing is the continent is raped of all its resources. So you know what I mean. I guess the word the call it is colonialism. When they come and colonize your land and take your resources. (figured just thought you was a regular game banger). Yeah you know (using words like that) Yeah we said it earlier, I educated myself. At one point I was ignorant and lost. But you gotta know yourself before you do anything . Before you can make a make a record‚ before you can have an opinion, you gotta know yourself. You know the same thing going on with rap music, the same thing going on with all of our culture. Whether it is gang banging‚ whether it is trapping down south, whether it is hip hop, whatever it is. Like you know, if a motherfucker see it as an asset or as resource, we don’t got no means to…