Now I used to walk with the gun, now I walk like a man   And I walk what I talk and I walk, never ran   And I never say never but I mean hardly ever   And if shootin' is the solution then you're not that clever      If you don't know shit then you still know better   Human life is so precious it could never be measured   Have you ever had a load of it? Cock back the heat   Poppin' on the next nigga while he walkin' up the street      Trigger off safety spacin' an opportunity   These niggaz wanna waste me it ain't nothing new to me   Soon as he walked by I was ready to bust   But he just posted up like he was waitin' on the bus      Now I'm all punked up with a steroid trigger   'Cause most of y'all are easy just some paranoid niggaz   Used to walk with a gun but I never did use it   What's the point of holdin' heat if you ain't gon' shoot it   Stupid      It was a late night sunset, me and him out   Lookin' at the ladies to come up on some trim   Everybody wildin' out 'cause the summer's about to end   He had the hypnotic, he was missin' with the hand      Of that mean green laid back with the deep lean   On low pro shit, that's how we rolled on the scene   Two girls lookin' probably in they late teens   But these days you can't tell but I figured what the hell      So we yell out, hey girl, they yell back   Maybe two in the front, maybe two in the back   But they had this dark tag, couldn't see through the black   We roll up ask 'em where their party at      They just start to laugh and I knew it was a trap   But I couldn't roll out 'cause the strip was so packed   Now I'm lookin' at this nigga in this motherfuckin' hat      Start talkin' that bullshit like we was on some bullshit   My nigga used to bang but we ain't know no thug shit   I tried to dismantle it but you know Los Angeles   This nigga kept talkin' so my boy had to handle it      He jumped out the Lex, snatched the dude at his hat   I put it in park, jumped out to get his back   But as I did that, I heard two shots   I turned to my right and I see my dude drop      Time stopped, couldn't believe what I seen   I was struck by reality when the two girls screamed   I saw his killer stand up put the gun in his jeans   Saw him wince from the pain as the heat burned his waist   Then he turned up the block disappeared without a trace      I remember his face but what I remember most   Was when I got to my knees and held my nigga close   And asked not to leave us in the name of Christ Jesus   But he's gone and all I got left is his blood on my sneakers      It was a year to this day that my best friend died   For weeks I sat alone in my room and cried   And I tried to pretend everything was fine   But my soul couldn't rest until vengeance was mine      It was a year to this day that my best friend died   For weeks I sat alone in my room and cried   And I tried to pretend everything was fine   But my soul couldn't rest until vengeance was mine      The day began with me standin' at his grave with his mother   His old girlfriend, his two younger brothers   We said a few words faces covered with tears   How we missed him so much and we wished he was here      Then his girl said a poem, put some roses on his stone   And we said our goodbyes and they all went home   I thought I'd use this time for me and him to be alone   I broke out the Hen', poured a little out for him      Told him who was gettin' married, who had went to the pen   How the homie named his newborn son after him   But as the sun went down the talk came to an end   So I said a quick prayer, Amen      And I shook in the lab plus the well wrote tracks   And I headed up saw the homie Eyezeer   I asked him what he doin', he was way out of bound   That he had a freak that lived on that side of town   He always kept the heat just in case it went down      A clown, I rolled down my window 'bout to light a ciga   Hey, is that that nigga, that? Hey give me the motherfucking gun   Man, drive around the block and post up for a minute   I hit you on the shirt, hit the corner nigga bend it      Splendid now with vengeance in my grasp   I couldn't dream of a better day for me to catch his ass   Slippin' while he dippin' into the ride by himself   I slid up behind him in the shadows hell of stealth      He started to breakin' stuff, I said, I didn't want a dime   Remember what you was doin' last year at this time   He looked into my eyes with both shock and surprise   When I split his face with the Glock right before he could reply      He cried as I pressed the heat against his cheek   The I squeeze two times for the homie, rest in peace      It was a year to this day that my best friend died   For weeks I sat alone in my room and cried   And I tried to pretend everything was fine   But my soul couldn't rest until vengeance was mine      It was a year to this day that my best friend died   For weeks I sat alone in my room and cried   And I thought that's what I wanted until the problem was confronted   Now I'm haunted by remorse that I wished I hadn't done it