Nas, FerQuan - Just a Moment lyrics

Can we please have a moment of silence
That's for my niggas doing
Years in confinement
And for my soldiers that passed over
No longer living
That couldn't run whenever the reaper
Came to get 'em
Can we please pour out some liquor
Symobolizing let's take in time
To consider that
Though our thugs ain't here, the love is here
And we gon' rep til slugs kill us here
This for my dogs
Stuck in the struggle trying to gain
Smoking trauma
Sniffing Ra while selling cocaine
Trapped in the game
Not knowing how to stop and get by
To live it alive
So instead they live it to die
Can we please have a moment of peace
For every G that fell for
His flag in the streets
Blooding and thugging, folking and loking
Criping and creeping, Latin and Kinging
Or just for poor righteous teaching

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all
And even though life must go on
We'll still mourn
While wishing y'all were home

Yeah and can we have
Another moment of silence
For brothers who died
From Black-on-Black violence
From here to the Dark Continent
Where rebels sell diamonds
To clients allover the world
Got little Black girls dying
And can we please pour some more liquors
For Will, Bokeem, Bar, Pappy my niggas
Here's another Warrior Song from
Nasty and Quan
It's to him I pass the baton to carry this on
Street's Disciple
Salute to those who's gone with bullets
And I promise through rhyming Quan gon'
Rep his life to the fullest
And can we please have a moment of truth
For soldiers and troops away
With helmets and boots
And families back home who pray
They make it home safe
Hoping that they don't get hit
With a stray or missiles
This is just a moment to let you
All know that we miss you
Mommy I'm still here
Wishing I was there with you
Let's take 'em home

As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all
And even though life must go on
We'll still mourn
While wishing y'all were home

And can we please have a moment to mourn
For Pac, Biggie and Pun
'cause through us they live on
Jam Master Jay, Freaky Tah and Aaliyah
Big L and Left Eye
When we die we hope to see ya
Can we please have a moment for children
Who got raped or murdered or
Trapped in the system
Who never knew their father
Never learned to dream
But was guided by drug dealers
Killers and crack fiends
For single mothers that's forced to
Play mom and dad busting her ass to give her
Kids shit she never had
For my niggas in the pen
Hoping rhymes'll get 'em signed
So when released
They can say bye to a life of crime
For every mother that held a
Son in the street bleeding
Crying a song of sorrow to
Dark and deep for speaking
Just a moment outside the day to day struggle
To let the ones we really care
About know that we love 'em
As day comes and night falls
For the rest of our life we'll miss y'all
And even though life must go on
We'll still mourn
While wishing y'all were home