Block Episode

[Masta Ace]

Woke up this morning hearing shots below my project window

The TV's on from playing all night on Nintendo

jumped out of bed tryin to see what's up with all the noise and

I see somebody else has caught a case of lead poison

This type of shit around my way is a regular occurance

because the same shit just happened to my nigga Terrence

a week later now somebody else is laying dying

surrounded by a crowd of people and his momma crying

the way he's laying there it looks to me that he's a goner

I seen the cats who just did it run around the corner

I start to wonder who it is and why they had to wet him

I bet I knew him or at least I bet I probably met him

I can't pretend I'm shocked like electrocution

cuz any night there could be an execution

my momma told me that that thug shit will get you buried

the next day there's your name in the obituary

I asked her why we gotta live in this environment

She said Your grandfather drank up his retirement

plus when I fucked around and had you I was just a baby

Just maybe if I wasn't being miss lady

things could've been a little bit better

threw on my jeans and my double knit sweater

I hit the block tryin to find out who got done in

Who had the gun and who that was I seen running

[Chorus]

Another body on the ground cold and

another day another lost soul and

same shit in every zip code

no matter where you go

its just another block episode

another story on the street told and

another turn down the wrong road and

sit back and watch it unfold

yo I'll let you know

just another block episode

[Punchline]

Yo, I roam the streets with my peeps and the gun by my crotch

I got beef with this cat that resides on my block

he getting popped i swear when I see him it's on

He'll just be a tattoo on his best friends arm

my friends screaming "Punch be calm" y'all can save it

He borrowed 5 G's two months ago, still ain't pay it

This girl hit me on the cell about his location

I grabbed my gun jumped in the hoopty then I started racing

turned off the lights a block away so he don't peep the caper

I see him and a bunch of cats by the bodega

Don't wanna kill him I just wanna teach this cat a lesson

Stepped on the gas grab the gun cocked back the weapon

shot up the whole corner but hit him in the kneecap

that's cool cuz dead niggaz can't pay your cash back

I'm nutting to laugh at I keep bad temper

I hit him a bystander and one of his crewmembers

(gunshot)