Tried By 12 - East Flatbush Project

[00:10.32]Don't say sticks and stones
[00:12.00]They might break your bones
[00:13.25]But the nine millimeter, it'll bore your dome
[00:15.65]I'm talkin about the toe-taggin
[00:17.22]Huh, the body-baggin
[00:19.07]Man, *************s are dyin, huh, mommas are cryin, casket buyin
[00:22.31]Who, me dyin, leave my family cryin?
[00:24.53]Hell no, I cause, um, bloodbaths and showers
[00:26.88]Send me commissary, mother************* them flowers
[00:29.46]Thoughts of slaughter, of leaving my daughters
[00:32.04]Hours and hours of fears running through my mind
[00:34.61]As I pick up the Zig 9
[00:36.29]Beef starts with the shove and ends with the shovel
[00:39.96]And *************s standing on your corner reminiscing of you
[00:42.87]But your ass is out and you're dead and gone
[00:45.20]So who'd you rather be?
[00:46.85]The murdered, or the murderer?
[00:48.63]*************s got me stressed - I got my Tek and my vest
[00:51.86]And I sing who Jah bless, let no man curse
[00:54.06]Or one of us will leave here tonight in a hearse
[00:56.74]For we'll be tried by 12
[00:58.26]And fertilizing daisies
[00:59.76]Crying mommas and cousins and crying babies
[01:02.28]Due to the fact that death is a must
[01:04.65]Ashes to ashes and dust to dust
[01:07.47]*************s getting bust
[01:08.97]For in God we trust
[01:10.25]So if you're comin to my town and try to slow the dough down
[01:12.48]You must be casket-bound
[01:14.26][01:25.46][02:15.41][02:25.96]
[01:14.81][01:23.06][02:15.97][02:23.44]Cause I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
[01:16.90][02:18.38]*************
[01:17.71]I sign my name on the book at your funeral
[01:19.71][02:20.93]The Zig's on my hip with an extra clip
[01:25.98]La-di-da-di
[01:27.51]Saturday night and we like to party
[01:29.83]The punks are ************* around so we might catch a body
[01:32.54]Early Sunday morning, don't really wanna hurt nobody
[01:35.80]So what they tryin to get?
[01:37.52]I already got it
[01:38.60]Chump mother******s just a-schemin on my *************t
[01:41.13]But little do they know I got the Zig on my hip with an extra clip
[01:44.97]And I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6
[01:47.81]Aw *************t - murder commit
[01:50.10]And there goes another statistic runnin' through ballistic
[01:52.70]The witness say I'm wicked
[01:54.45]But that's how I kick it
[01:55.44]Cause I'll be the bastard who blasts and didn't get blasted
[01:58.04]Boy kiss dem casket
[02:00.07]I cut your wig back kid
[02:01.63]Sucker, look who died
[02:03.16]Body will be identified
[02:05.04]Momma and poppa will cry, *************-ass man says he'll testify
[02:08.62]To see me tried, but here's I slide
[02:11.61]Upon the same corner that you did
[02:13.79]And I'm still facing a bid
[02:18.97]I sign my name at the book at your funeral