How long will they mourn me   Yeah! This for my nigga Kato   It's still on nigga   Thug Life, Thugs for life   Ha Ha yeah, how long will they mourn me   Yeah nigga   2Pac in this muthafucka      [Tupac]      All my homies drinking liquor   Tears in everybody's eyes    Niggas cried to mourn a homies homicide   But I can't cry    instead I'm just a shoulder   Damn, why they take another soldier   I load my clip before my eyes blurry, don't worry   I'll get them suckas back before your buried (shit)   Retaliate and pull a 187    do real niggas get to go to heaven ?   How long will they mourn me, bury me a muthafuckin 'G'   Bitch don't wanna die    then don't fuck with me   It's kinda hard to be optimistic    When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted   Y'all don't hear me doe, I'm trying hard to make amends   But I'm losing all my muthafuckin friends (damn)    They should've shot me when I was born   Now I'm trapped in the muthafuckin' storm   How long will they mourn me ?      [Chorus]      I wish it would have been another   How long will they mourn me   How long will they mourn my brother   (Got them niggas all dead and shit)   How long will they mourn me   I wish it would have been another   (Nate Dogg)   How long will they mourn me   How long will they mourn my brother   (Gotta keep this shit goin' on, Yo Syke)      [Syke]      How long will they mourn me   Every muthafuckin' day homie   You stayed down when tha other niggas didn't know me   From my heart to the trigga you my fuckin' nigga   And things won't be the same without ya nigga   I remember kickin' back, you wanted to lack   And goin' half on a muthafuckin' hundred sack   Smokin' blunt after blunt and steady drinkin'   Hung around so much, you knew what I was thinkin'   Tell me Lord, why you take big Kato ?   So confused not knowing which way to go   I'm goin crazy and runnin' out of fuckin' time   I can't take it, I'm losin' my fuckin' mind   So day after day    ride after ride   We'll hook up on the other side   Watch over your family and your newborn   Till we meet again homie   How long will they mourn me ?      [Chorus]      I wish it would have been another   (Yo Kato)   How long will they mourn me   (It's still on nigga)   How long will they mourn my brother   How long will they mourn me   I wish it would have been another   (Yeah)   How long will they mourn me   How long will they mourn my brother   (Rated R, Double Jeopardy, Mack 10)      [Rated R]      Damn a nigga tired of feeling sad   I'm tired of putting in work   I'm tired of cryin while watching my homies leave the earth   I know soon one day I'll be in the dirt   And my peoples'll be mournin'   When they get a call from the coroner   All niggas can say is that's fucked up   And get tossed up   Reminiscing how we grew up (my nigga)   Rest and love to my nigga Kato   See you in the crossroads real soon   For now let me pour out some brew   I'll be always thinkin' of ya homie   Rest in peace   How long will they mourn me ?      Ya know life's a fuckin' trip   And everybody gotta go   But why the fuck it have to be my nigga Kato   Another nigga fell victim to the chrome   It's enough to make you crazy   It's fuckin' with my dome   Ya only live once on this earth   A nigga had it bad, since the day of my mutahfuckin' birth   But niggas say they down and they always be my homie   But when a nigga gone   How long will ya mourn me ?      [Chorus]      Yeah!   I wish it would have been another   (Mack 10 in this muthafucka)   Yeah, how long will ya mourn me   How long will ya mourn my bother   (Thug Life boy, Nate blowin' that shit,    Nate Dogg do that shit nigga)   I wish it would have been another   Yeah! How long will ya mourn me   How long will ya mourn my brother   (This for my nigga Kato and all his kids)   How long will ya mourn me   I wish it would have been another   How long will ya mourn my brother