Colombia Ruffhouse Records present

A Refugee Camp production

Fugees, The Score

And now for our feature presentation

Yo, I was **** with, the other day, I was chillin' with Scott and this **** was like

And the minute we gotta sit in front our crib with a shotgun

'Cause jokers gonna be bustin' up in there tryna get food, clothing, shelter

TVs, forks, radios, whatever they get they hands on, kid

This shit is getting mad ill out here, man

Jokers running around, like, with masks on

Until my man Petey think he like Charlie Chan, or Robert De Niro, or Bruce Lee or some ****

He be jumping from behind trees on ****

Or cowboys, bang-bang, or whatever, you know

Like my man, he tried to shoot a joker he had beef with

He wound up shootin' my man up in the street, in the hospital

Trying to be cowboys, they can't even shoot

Trying to be gangsters, but when the beast come on the **** block, everybody break out

They beat my man Bob G. up the other day

Cops, pigs just vampin' on him, yo

Everybody standin' around just watching that **** take place

This always take place

Because they only gangsters when it come to being gangsters to theyself

They wanna be Corleone or Luigi or Gambino or Gotti or whatever the **** that is

Some people don't even like you, you know what I'm sayin'?

They run around callin' theyself Rahim or Fuquan or Mustapha

No ****, 'cause we think they got power

**** them, I got power, I got power, I got a family

I got family business on Avon, on Chancellor, on Prince Street

Chadwick, on Stratford, Chancellor, uh, uh, Vailsburg

All of the Brick City, boy, that's my family

We gon' settle the score, once and for all

I ain't gon' sit around and let jokers kill me softly, kid

I'm going out, I'm going out like a bang

And all of these zealots out here tryna steal and tryna bite and take what I got

Like all these big record companies, these, uh, corporations, these stores, they try to rob me?

Naw man, I'm going— I'ma get mine, and my girl, we gon' go out together

She gon' be a soldier, kid, when I go out, she go out

And we gon' make what we believe manifest

**** that, 'cause if you ain't ready now, you ain't never gon' be ready