The Invitation - Saigon, Fatman Scoop, Q-Tip

Ain’t nothin' stoppin this murder in this Metropolis

I represent the poor and profitless corner monopolists

The pessimist outnumber the optimist on the block and it’s

Coppers that got binoculars cause I can feel them watchin us

(Feel em watchin us) If only they knew what we had a pocket of

They probably swarm in without a warning pointin Glocks at us

Get down… but this is gettin us paid

So at a very tender age we learned the tricks of the trade

Copping coke to cooking it to chipping it with the blade

To baggin and pitchin to gettin rid of it in a raid

Most of us would never get to the stage, when its lawyers and bail

Hell we’re happy to get sticked in the cage

And it’s crazy we be out here for days upon days

Makin just enough to get some licks, some kicks, and some haze

It’s a damn shame we’re placed in a no win situation

The party is in the pen and the blow is the invitation

Fishkill, Rikers Island you don’t stop

Greenhaven all day you don’t stop

Hold it down in Rahway you don’t stop

You gotta strive in Elmira you don’t stop

Sullivan, Coxsackie you don’t stop

All my peoples Auburn you don’t stop

And last but not least for the sure shot

It’s the abandoned nation

Theresa baby daddy got a bad habit of smoking money up

She gettin some stripper paper but saving up for a tummy tuck

Little man hungry as fuck he only one-years-old

But knows he’s unlucky and such

As he grows he gets bitter now he acts up in class

He curses his teachers out tellin them they can kiss his ass

Soon as he didn’t pass his mama whoopin his ass

His pops is not around the boy is block bound

(Block bound) Not even 12 months later

He sucking on 40-ounces and pissing in elevators

Idolizin the guys with big rides that’s gettin the quick paper

And now he despises the shit-taker

He 13 goin on 26 and a half

His only dream was to have bricks and a stash

Poppin the clutch and hittin the gas, so then he start dabblin

In the coke game pitchin for halves

Now he sittin in a cell with an unpeculiar bail

He happened to make a sale to an unfamiliar male

Who was an undercover cop his photo is at the station

The party is in the pen and the blow is the invitation

Bayview, San Quentin you don’t stop

North Branch, Connally you don’t stop

Huntsville, Buckingham, and you don’t stop

Greenville, James River you don’t stop

The party is in the pen and the government is promotin it

That’s the reason I don’t be believin in all this votin shit

They bring the coke in this bitch, ain’t no poppy seeds

In the p’s please, there’s nothing but a whole lot of hopelessness

That’s where all the focus is, makin sure the blacks

Stay in the back the same place that uh, Scoliosis is

How can they lie with such compulsiveness we just sit around

Acting like as if this is how we supposed to live

Fuck outta here, I can swear in bout a year

I’ll have these suckas in explainin why the hell they still got us here

Still being treated like shit still gettin beat

With nightsticks, still attractin heat in my six

That’s why we ride still drink Barcardi and the Gin

Cause whitey trying to invite me to the party in the pen

A body will get your ass up in VIP

And the burner will get you in without showing your ID

The coke that’ll get you in especially if you cook it up

You RSVP to the party in the P

-enitentiary Saigiddy I am the truth

I ain’t one of these kids that lie to the youth, I’m living proof

Comstock in the house it don’t stop

Sing Sing, uh you don’t stop

Attica come on you don’t stop

And Attica come on you don’t stop

Out in Greenhaven you don’t stop

And what it do Rahway you don’t stop

Out west in Lompoc you don’t stop

Is San Quentin in the house and you don’t stop

Over in Ironwood you don’t stop

What about Arrendale you don’t stop

North Branch do it up you don’t stop

Over in Connelly you don’t stop

Saigon the Yardfather you don’t stop

Just Blaze on the beat he keeps it hot

And last but not least for the sure shot

It’s the abandoned nation

Comstock’s in the house hands up (hands up)

Sing Sing’s in the house hands up (hands up)

Attica’s in the house hands up (hands high)

Greenhaven’s in the house hands up (to the sky)

Rahway’s in the house hands up (put em up)

Lompoc’s in the house hands up (keep em up)

Elmira’s in the house hands up (hands high)

Sullivan’s in the house hands up (put em up, put em up)