Intro - His name was Rasool/ Carmel complected boy fro the 22/ Rough on the outside/ But on the inside he was cool/ Rasool was a king/ But also a fool
Back on the block again with the same crew/ Tariq from the west side / Little John form the avenue / Always seen um/ bout a quarter to two/ Shaking hands with everybody/ But at the same time sharing the blues/ And oh how he passed it on / Shaking hands till what was in his pockets was gone/ He'd be outside in the cold with his bubble goose on / But inside / I knew he wasn't warm/
Around 10:30 on that dreary night/ His bowaz said they were hungry they were hungry/ Wanted to get a bite/ But they didn't send a runner/ Rasool knew it wasn't right / But he stayed anyway to get the chain he liked /
And oh how the shots rang in the streets/ Hitting everybody in the surrounding vicinity / Children of the children / One young father to be / And Rasool lay dead in my north Philly Street /
At fifteen years old/ It was the first death I'd seen / But the game ain't designed for no kind of winning / And oh this is a friend of Rasool/ Telling you to think about what you do and who you call your crew/ The very choices you make/ May make a Rasool out of you/ Now you don't want that do you?
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