Year of the Dragon (feat. Ms. Lauryn Hill)

Yellow cheese bus, getting beatings if I cuss

Lay away another day in striped lees and le tigres

Rock the leather bomber, mama tried to stop

Paranoid cuz this boy around my neighborhood got shot

Name plate, hair straight, metal braces on my teeth

Fat laces on my feet, when crack first hits the streets

I used to push up on the girls, Salt N Pepa, push it, push it

D's in school cuz the music was my focus

Jokes in class, but when I learned I didn't pass

I knew it was my ass with my mother's leather lash

Belt buckle said Nelly-Nel, similar to Melle Mel

Mo' hits the third rail, beat street makes Gazelle sell

As the tale gets poetic, watch the streets turn magnetic

Tawana Brawney's rape is alleged

Hang out hooky places, watch street corners turn to oasis

Young men aspire to be Scarfaces

In the year of the dragon, lots of men disappear

As quiet as it's kept, they won't be back next year

Yo, yo, watch out for the black van

Yo, yo, planes exploding

Yo, close your doors

Yo, nobody's safe, Halloween, October 31st

Yo, close your doors

Yo, kids are disappearing

Yo...

Late at night, the light was bright on the Ave

I went to pick up cash from my cousin, Little Kev

He told me Joe had a dream, in jail he got steamed

His wife become a fiend, fucking Little Raheem

Damn, drugs will make you do terrible things

He told me when he get out, he's murdering by any means

The day came, I saw him on the train

He pulled his gun and aimed, and started firing like the Son of Cain

I saw civilians running for they life

Like the devil on judgement night, running from Christ

Ice and Amaretto, please, as I fell to my knees

Being shot by Ferguson, the vigilante

In the year of the dragon, lots of men disappear

As quiet as it's kept, they won't be back next year

So, CNN, know what I'm saying?

Ferguson is at court, and he's his own lawyer

You know what I mean, what's going on? Talk to me

This is definitely the last days

Jewish calendar has read me a rhyme for year 2000

Watch your back, watch your back, watch your back

Kleph, it kinda remind me of this chick I once knew

Used to be a dime, now she's strung out in Bellevue

See, the serpent play tricks, run game like the Knicks

Build you up just to lose the championship

I seen her reminisce over Wu-Tang, could it be that simple?

She lost her prince cuz there were thieves in the temple

Tragic depression made her lose all her teeth

Lost and turned out, gave her body to the streets

Sweet Mary, don't you weep, still waters run deep

So be careful of the company you keep

In the year of the dragon, lots of men disappear

As quiet as it's kept, they won't be back next year

Yo, I'm frustrated, you know what I mean?

I used to work at McDonald's, just got fired

I'm coming back in there and I'm spraying everybody

The boss, the manager

Yo, these are definitely the last days

Yo, here he comes with his gun

Yo, duck, duck

Black Panther

Yo, nobody's protected

Yo, 666, watch your back

Don't get caught in a rapture

Yo, AIDS, Moses, the Plague, watch your back

Pharaoh, let my people go

Yo, watch your back, last days

Nobody's protected

Yo, my little sisters, Rose and Sharon

Yo, yo, nobody's protected

Not even Rose and Sharon, nobody's protected

Yo, you try to come get my sister, I'mma get you first

I'mma be driving a hearse, yo, cuz nobody's protected