[Intro]
Yo Fatboy, yo Fatboy, guess what kid
Yo dude, don't come in my room without knockin'
Son I'm sayin' yo, n***as just smoked Woody around the corner kid
Word to mother son, n***as smoked that n***a, it's real in the buildin'
Who, who smoked him?
I don't know kid, n***as said it could've been anybody kid
Word kid
N***as said it might have been the...
Woody
Yo man, that's fucked up
Shit is real, it ain't safe no more

[Verse 1]
Whose family I often ask when I drop past
And look for so called friends that I grew up with
But true friends are hard to find, my mother once told me:
''Most that you know are just associates''
Paid no heed to the lesson bein' taught
Thought I was a genius (Bang!) till I got caught
Set up, wet up, 2Pac said: ''Keep your head up''
The needy, the greedy, they all wanna bе me
Or see me fall but regardlеss I stand stall
6 feet 1 and dark, rough like tree bark
Observin' my cipher, will I peep the vipers?
The low-life snakes, the common, the fakes
I'm sorry doesn't mean what was done was a mistake
Now I'm strapped like bamboo, I got moves to make
Some may say: ''Chill, it ain't no need for a war''
But I'm keepin' it real, it ain't safe no more
[Chorus: Samples]
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)

[Verse 2]
I'm livin' in a crack era where rowdy n***as'
Fingers are quick to serenade triggers
Sectionin' and welfare's a petrified state
Cracks are major, shorties 10 with the sky pager
Hoods be on the attack 'cause they unemployed
So give it up 'cause they quick to stab your life boy
Last night a man lost his only life
He died beside his wife, somebody did 'em with a rebel knife
While laser put you in the catacombs
Brothers are sworn a stone for goin' on a murder syndrome
I often ponder on the facts of how we kill each other
Devils be comin' in all sizes, shapes and colors
I literally saw a man's brain tissue in the street congeal
I'm in a minor phase of hell, and like the flesh on a dead carcass
Times is raw, it ain't safe no more

[Chorus: Samples]
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
[Verse 3]
I used to say my man, now I say this kid I know
'Cause friends don't violate it, if they do, they gotta go
But if they gotta go, they never really were your friends
But nowadays friends even fry you in the end
So when you stand alone, you know alone that's how you stand
You have to trust your instincts before you trust the next man
Trust got my man Woody murdered on the next block
Trust got me shot for some cash 'bout my man's Glock
So pack a joint and stay on point, don't be sleepin'
Even chicken heads be on the streets schemin' and creepin'
So keep everybody in they place
Just 'cause they smile in your face don't mean that it's safe

[Chorus: Samples]
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back)
It ain't safe no more (Go watch your back, back)

[Outro]
There will come a time when a man will kill a man and not know why he has killed that man. And the one bein' slain will not know the reason for what he's bein' killed. That time is now...