The Return

The crime got so bad, we were losing like four or five hundred a year, and like two a night

were being murdered

We were all wondering who would be next

My momma said don't take your life for a joke, putting stock in the words that you wrote

about that rap and that dope, and the big black gat that you tote

Plus I know you shooting dice, that's why your ass so broke

And I said, ma, my life is really real, and I'd really appreciate it if you really chill

And them ain't just words, ma, that's really skill

Ask anybody on the hill, your son is really ill

And she said, Charles, ain't nothing wrong with being good, but have a plan B, cause plan C is the hood

Look at your pops, he thought he understood, but he never really could with all them blunts and backwards

You just like him with them stunts and crack goods

Police come around, you front and act good

Y'all the same, you can talk, that smack good

Gone till November, come back and act Suge, like

It's the return

It's the return, it's the return, it's the return, it's the return,

It's the return, it's the return, it's the return, it's the return

My mama said, it's your pops on the phone, man, I ain't seen that **** since he been gone

Since then I've been grown, since then I got a whip of my own

Plus some nickel slick nigg with chrome plated microphones

I rock beats with metronomes and sympty tones

Looked at the receiver, picked it up, I heard, what up, homes

I heard you like to go down south, that's good

Keep that work out your house, keep respect in your mouth for your moms

And if you gotta harm, do harm

And if you do time, do it calm

And if you gotta rhyme, be the bomb

And **** want war, transform and spawn to Genghis Khan

Don't be alarmed, you got charm

Keep a chick on your arm, keep your prick on her lip balm

God protects you with these life songs

You was a blessing, don't forget these lessons like..

It's the return

My mama said you like the prodigal son

First you leave, then you come

Don't put leave in the sun like a night crawler

I cut her off, I said Mic Brawler

She fired back, nah, bullshitter, life staller

Go to church, approach the altar

Or better yet, get a job, see what life offers

And keep your Johnson out the Johnson daughter

I'm feeling smaller like, hey, little Walter

Tony, Toni, Tone, time to leave it alone

Time to get my own home, go off on my own

I did that, I left the womb, but I came back

I left again with my then girlfriend and..

That's when he came through the door on my carpeted floor

To meet the girl I adore

Must have been 20 years or more

I hadn't seen him, he's here in the flesh

And I'm not impressed, he's like..

It's the return

The city was undergoing a horrific wave of violence

as a result of the crack epidemic

United States of America, open the door

D.C. in the early 1990s came to be known

as the murder capital of the country