Dead Pictures

It's after midnight while I let this pen write
 In my cell it's just me and this dim light
 As my thoughts get spilled on a notebook
 They shot my homie and I told his girl don't look
 Cause if she saw what I saw it would have haunted her
 I heard the paramedics laughing with the officer
 I guess they see it as just another dead body
 And I know it hurt when his daughter said "Mommy,
 Where's daddy I ain't seen him in a long time?"
 How can mommy talk she can't even stop crying
 The punch line is tomorrow may never come
 That's where the cops get 1 8 7 from
 It means murder not death by natural causes
 It means homie's clothes redder than Santa Clause's
 In Hillwood many died facing obstacles
 I thank God it's not me in that pile of skulls
 Slugs around the block boys
 Thugging till they drop laws
 Putting G's on lock
 So we flush it when they knock
 Caught up in the system
 These haters play the victim
 Wanna see us fall
 Like dead pictures on the wall
 I saw the reaper in my sleep so I might got a death wish
 When vultures come around I react so selfish
 If you ain't out of the hood you probably think that I'm crazy
 Lotta niggas in jail or they pushing up daisies
 So many motherfuckers dropping out this shit like flies
 Heard a friend of mine just committed suicide
 Left his family behind found him hanging from the ceiling
 Eyes wide open I just can't imagine the feeling
 So many funerals here I am in all black
 Prices put up my head so I'm packing a strap
 When my life is on the line I bring them killas out
 I find your residence and bring the drama to your house
 Now all what's left is a memory of your existence
 Dead pictures on the wall bloody murder's my vision
 Slugs around the block boys
 Thugging till they drop laws
 Putting G's on lock
 So we flush it when they knock
 Caught up in the system
 These haters play the victim
 Wanna see us fall
 Like dead pictures on the wall
 They found my homie Desperado in a garbage heap
 Wrapped up throat slit man the scars are deep
 That day it felt like the whole city was crying
 Lil D if you hear me nigga give me a sign
 That nigga that had murdered you got twisted by Jason
 Had to tell you 'cause I know that ya'll in different locations
 Have you seen Lil Lex? the other day he was killed
 Niggas don't got no hustle had to take what he built
 I'm afraid to even open up today's newspaper
 'Cause the Crow is taking souls like the old Shoemaker
 It's enough to make you blow up, throw up or go nuts
 My people dying and I fucking love em so much
 My homie's brother got killed in a car chase
 Cops tried to pull him over back on Park Place
 He hauled ass but it ended when he crashed his Taurus
 And all he had was some motherfucking traffic warrants
 Slugs around the block boys
 Thugging till they drop laws
 Putting G's on lock
 So we flush it when they knock
 Caught up in the system
 These haters play the victim
 Wanna see us fall
 Like dead pictures on the wall