Prodigy of Mobb Deep - Veteran’s Memorial lyrics

Memories play back like film
I flash back we was little
Niggas living most real
1989's when we first met
We first clicked over convo gettin twisted
In dun gram earth crib cutting outta school
Watching cable it seemed like the over day
Through the eyes of a stranger we was kids
But in our own minds we was grown mens
Outside on the block we would play the bench
And y'all play the rock
Every chance y'all got
As I sat back and just watched
Hey, what can I say?
The same back then as I am today
I can recall me, Jamil and Jamal
In the room drinking straight
Vodka with they moms
When I walk home with the big nefertiti charm
Back with the light blue camoflauge suit god
Me and Hav' doing it hard trying to get on


We sample songs on the box
With record and pause
Killa B didn't even get his first firearm
And I was still holding one shot derringers

Who would think anyone of us
Would cease to exist
Left with just thoughts of
The past to reminisce
Sometimes I see a chick walking
Past with ya kids
Or find an old flicka of some 1-2-fifth
All the shit that we been
Through it boils to this?
Dun, I wish we could start it all over again

95 we on top touring the states
A lotta times we even took the click overseas
Came along way from the hallway
Sitting in the staircase with bacardi
Bring the honeycomb speaker outside to bang
While we would share drinks with
The other that came
Triple L stayed taking they
Cash in dice games
Killa Black grew to keep an ice grill
Dun was not playin'
Yammy, the most infamous told me one day
'Put the bogies down 'fore I
Pound you out P'
But it was all love, we was each others duns
We held each other down
Borrowed each other guns
Its hard to believe that niggas so strong
Could die so easily forever be gone
I could still feel the wet
Of your palm against mine
Cause we did our hand shake all the time
Why it have to be your time
To go and not mines?
Spilled tears contemplating to
My delf cryin'
All the laughs we shared and fights we had
All the nights we would get nice, damn
Plates of food we split in half
I dedicate the rest of my life
To all my niggas that passed

Who would think anyone of us
Would cease to exist
Left with just thoughts of
The past to reminisce
Sometimes I see a chick walking
Past with ya kids
Or find an old flicka of some 1-2-fifth
All the shit that we been
Through it boils to this?
Dun, I wish we could start it all over again

What's the fuckin' deal
Motherfuckin' Scarface nigga
Killer for Bean, Fugi, Gooey
I can't take no more nigga
Corey, Black Ed, the fuck
Knahmsayin'? I'll Will burnin'
Harry, fuck yo, I can't take no more man
Frankie, Spank, whattup man? Straight up
My grandmoms man, my granddad man
Grandma Brooks, straight up my pops man
Straight up man, that's it
All my dead, all my dead
Man, the little babies man, no more man
Abortion babies man
I can't take no more man
I'll never forget you
All my dead it's all love man
Motherfuckin' Yambo, in a minute
We'll be there
Motherfuckin' Yammy, straight up
I can't wait
You was my strength nigga, I miss y'all
I can't believe you gone nigga
(You was supposed to be right here)
What the fuck happened?
Ain't nobody else goin' away man
You ain't takin' nuttin' else from me man
Nobody can't take nuttin' else from me man
That's it
I dare you! Come try, it's over man
You can't take nuttin' else from us yo
That's my word, I put my life
On it I'll be next nigga, straight up
I'll stand up for that
'Cause ain't none of my niggas goin'
That's enough we had enough
It's the Veteran's Memorial right here man
Straight up, man we love y'all, one love