[Rock Shabazz:]

Ayo I can't really deal with death

To this day, it's the part of life I can't accept

Cause many died but most of 'em never lived

She passed away but I see her face in her kids

Pallbearers covering a grave with a lid

Spirits arise

The more there's memories inside

The less sincerity in smiles

That's why the elderly just sigh cause they people is gone

Early Sunday morning calls, man it's hard to be strong

Cause when I heard that this nigga died, I was like "Word!"

But when I hear that this nigga died, I was like...Damn

And when I heard that he died I was flippin, I can't believe it

And when I heard that she died, I was just quiet

Couldn't even cry, still in the shock

Hard to imagine like a dimepiece dyin

These niggaz always ready to die until they're on the brink

Seeing babies in coffins 'll make you think

This shit is real deep, deeper than six feet

Posessed by the ghosts of stray bullet victims I speak


[Hook:]

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life

[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life


[Crayon:]

With all due respect

To the lives of Pac and Biggie

But brothers die every day on the blocks of my city

Only the hood rats remember

Life just goes on

Blunts burn, mothers mourn

Malt liquor is pourn

And just like that your gone over petty shit

Some nigga gets emotional and pulls a semi quick

And then you hit

Your soul floats away

Spread the word around the way

In the barbershop I heard somebody say

Them niggaz died too soon

Man I cried too much

Lost my only homie now he lying dead in the dust

Nobody gives a fuck

He was just a man living

Caught in the middle of shit

Innocent as a infant

Made me ask

What's this life worth? Why we here for?

Then I asked God how much them guns cost?

Why he done for when he need to breathe more

Theres plenty thugs in my hood and they all hard

When you fill'em with embalming fluid

Guess we all stupid

Dying over bullshit


[Hook]


[Rock Shabazz:]

Follow me... to the wake of a gangmember

In the back twenty kids with beads and bandannas

But only one that weeps is his damn mama

Getting held up by his stronger grandmother

She asked me "Is it pain if it can't be explained?"

I said Ms.Jeremie, I partly feel like I'm to blame

I could've told him, Blood and Crip, it's all the same

Like blood is blue when traveling inside the vein

We die in tragic ways but the world don't change

Cars crash but you still speedin'

Guns blast but you still holdin heat and, not watchin what you eatin

Start a family and then you pass away and leave em

If I die don't be fake with me

Over-rehearsed words of empty sympathy

Fake tears dripping over what's left of me

The gullible'll keep it gully

Y'all niggaz gotta stop killing over women and money

Give peace a chance or I say in advance


[DJ Premier] Rest In Peace [Nas] God bless your life..