WHEN YOU SAY THEY TOOK YOU ON THE YARD AND HIT YOU UP, WHO WAS THEY. HOMEBOYZ? THE WHOLE GROUP? I MEAN WHO WAS TALKIN' TO YOU?
AS A YOUTH I WENT TO SAN QUENTIN AND TRACY AS REQUIRED BY MY PROBATION. "SCARED STRAIGHT" THEY CALLED IT, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE STILL CALLIN' IT.
AT QUENTIN WHEN IT CAME TO TALK ABOUT ME AND WHY I WAS THERE THE O.G. CRIP SPEAKIN' THOUGHT HE WOULD PULL MY CARD 'CAUSE MY DRUNK RETARDED ASS PROBATION OFFICER "ROGER LaFLURE" HAD MY PAPERWORK CATEGORIZIN' ME AS A BLOOD AND THE O.G. WAS GONNA LET ME KNOW HOW I WOULDN'T MAKE IT SO I INTERUPPTED HIM AND TOLD HIM MY P.O. GOT ME TWISTED AND THAT HE WAS SPEAKIN' TO A NORTENO AND NOT A BLOOD. AT THAT POINT HE BACKED OFF AND LET A VETERAN HOMEBOY STEP IN, TAKE ME ASIDE AND SPEAK TO ME FOR A WHILE TO SEE WHERE I WAS COMIN' FROM AND HE SEEN WHERE MY HEART WAS AT AND IN A WAY VOUCHED FOR MY YOUNG ASS, SO THE REST OF THE TRIP WHICH WAS TWO DIFFERENT SATURDAYS I WAS LEFT BE AND ONLY HE LACED ME UNLIKE MOST THE OTHER FOOLS THEY EITHER HAD CRYIN' OR BREAKIN' DOWN. THAT IS THERE JOB THO', TO HAVE YOU BREAKIN' DOWN.
IN TRACY IT WAS ALMOST THE SAME THING EXCEPT SOME ARYAN WAS TALKIN' HOW I WAS GONNA GET IT AND HOW THEY WERE RUNNIN' THINGS IN WHICH 'CAUSED ANOTHER VETERAN HOMEBOY TO STEP IN AND TOLD HIM HANDS OFF AND SPOKE TO ME AND BROKE IT DOWN. COME TO FIND OUT HIS CELLY WAS A HOMEBOY THAT WAS WHITE WHICH DISCREDITED EVERYTHING THE NAZI WAS TRYIN' TO SCARE ME WITH.
WHEN I TURNED EIGHTEEN AND STARTED HITTIN' COUNTY JAIL OFF AND ON I ALREADY KNEW A GRIP OF HOMEBOYZ FROM THE STREETS SO EVEN THO' I WAS TESTED A LIL' HARDER THAN USUAL BY OLDER HOMEBOYZ, MY NAME WAS VALIDATED BY MANY HOMEBOYZ 'CAUSE THATS ALL I RAN WITH, PUT IN WORK WITH AND LIVED AMONGST.
BASICALLY, WHEN YOU TOUCH DOWN THE REAL HOMEBOYZ GONNA SEE RIGHT THROUGH AND KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT 'CAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN THROUGH THE SHIT YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
HOWEVER, YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND I'M AN EXCEPTION. I MADE THE CUT YEARS AGO AND I'VE BEEN THROUGH TOO MUCH IN THIS LIFE TO EVER CONSIDER MYSELF ANYTHING OTHER THAN A NORTENO. UNFORTUNATELY, THE FACT THAT I AM MOSTLY IRISH AND STATE THE FACT THAT I AM A NORTENO IN MY MUSIC, I FEEL ALOT OF WHITE YOUNGSTAZ THINK IT AUTOMATICALLY OPENS UP THE DOOR FOR THEM TO CHOOSE TO RIDE FOR THE NORTE. WHICH IS NOT THE CASE. THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND IF THEY HAVEN'T ATLEAST GROWN UP WITH HOMEBOYZ THAT HAVE FAMILY ROOTS UP IN THIS AND HAVE A TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF WHATS GOIN' ON WITHOUT HAVING TO GO AND ASK QUESTIONS THEY SHOULD JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
