The Fugees Red Intro Lyrics

Crib with a shotgun. cause jokers gonna be bustin up
In there trying to get food, clothing, shelter, tvs, forks,
Radios or whatever they can get there hands on. s___
Is getting mad ill out here man. jokers running out here
Like with masks on; I was with my man pee, he think
He like charlie chan or robert de niro
Or bruce lee or some s___, jumping from behind trees on
Muhfuckas, like cowboys bang bang or whatever you
Know. trying to shoot a joker he had beef with, he wound
Up shootin my man up in the street, tyring to be cowboys
They cant even shoot, trying to be gangstas but when the
Beast come on the m____fuckin block everybody break out.
They beat my man bob g. up the other day, cops, pigs vampin
On him, everybody just standin around just watching that
s___ take place. cause they only gangstas when it comes to
Being gangstas to themselves. they want to be corleone, luigi,
Or gambino or gotti or whatever the f___. they run around callin
Themselves rahiem or fuquan or mustapha cause we think they
Got power, but f___ them, I got power. I got power, I got family,
I got family business on avon, on chancellor, on prince street
On chadwick, on stratford on chancellor on vailsburg. all of the
Brick city. thats my family, we gonna settle the score, once
And for all. Im not lettin nobody Im going out like
A bandit. and all of these zealots trying to steal and trying to
Bite what I got like all of these big record companies, these
Corporations these stores they try to rob me. naw man, Im going,
Im a get mine. me and my girl we gonna go out together
We gonna be a soldier kid. when I go out, she go out. and we
Gonna make what we believe manifest cause if you aint ready
Now, you aint never gonna be ready . . .
Im always ready.