Step by step
Heart to heart
Left right left
We all fall down
Step by step heart to heart
Left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit
Torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
I'm supposed to be the soldier
Who never blows his composure
Even though
I hold the weight of the whole world
On my shoulders
I am never supposed to show it
My crew ain't supposed to know it
Even if it means goin' toe to toe
With a benzino it don't matter
I'd never drag them in battles
That I can handle unless I absolutely have to
I'm supposed to set an example
I need to be the leader
My crew looks for me to guide them
If some shit ever just pop off
I'm supposed to be beside them
Now ja said I tried to squash it
It was too late to stop it
There's a certain line you
Just don't cross and he crossed it
I heard him say hailie's name
On a song and I just lost it
It was crazy
This shit be way beyond some jay-z and nas shit
And even though the battle was won
I feel like we lost it
I spent too much energy on it
Honestly I'm exhausted
And I'm so caught in it I almost feel
I'm the one who caused it
This ain't what I'm in hip-hop for
It's not why I got in it
That was never my object for someone to get killed
Why would I wanna destroy something I help build
It wasn't my intentions
My intentions was good
I went through my whole career
Without ever mentionin'
Now it's just out of respect
For not runnin' my mouth
And talkin' about something
That I knew nothing about
Plus dre told me stay out
This just wasn't my beef
So I did I just fell back
Watched and gritted my teeth
While he's all over TV
Down talkin' a man who literally saved my life
Like f**k it I understand this is business
And this shit just isn't none of my business
But still knowin' this shit
Could pop off at any minute 'Cuz
Step by step heart to heart
Left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
There used to be a time
When you could just say a rhyme
And wouldn't have to worry about
One of your people dyin'
But now it's elevated
'Cuz once you put someone's kids in it
The shit gets escalated
It ain't just words no more is it
It's a different ball game
Callin' names and you ain't just rappin'
We actually tried to stop the 50
And ja beef from happenin'
Me and dre had sat with him
Kicked it and had a chat with him
And asked him not to start
It he wasn't gonna go after him
Until ja started yappin'
In magazines how we stabbed him
F**k it 50 smash them
Mash them and let him have it
Meanwhile my attention
Is pullin' in other directions
Some receptionist at the source
Who answers phones at his desk
Has an erection for me and thinks
That I'll be his ressurection
Tries to blow the dust off his mic
And make a new record
But now he's f**ked the game up
'Cuz one of the ways I came up
Was through that publication
The same one that made me famous
Now the owner of it
Has got a grudge against me for nothin'
Well f**k it that mutherf**ker can get it too
F**k him then
But I'm so busy being pissed off
I don't stop to think
That we just inherited 50 beef with murder inc
And he's inherited mine
Which is fine ain't like either of us mind
We still have soldiers
That's on the front line
That's willing to die for us
As soon as we give the orders
Never to extort us strictly to show
Hey support us
We'll maybe shout them out
In a rap or up in a chorus
To show them we love them back
And let them know how important it is
To have run you never and
Who sulked us up in our corners
Their loyalty to us is worth
More than any award is
But I ain't tryna have none
Of my people hurt and murdered
There ain't words
That I can't think of a perfecter way to word it
Then to just say
That I love you all too much to see the virdict
I'll walk away from it all
Before I let it go any further
But don't get it twisted
It's not a plea that I'm coppin'
I'm just willin' to be the bigger man
If you all can quit poppin' off
At your jaws with the knockin'
'Cuz frankly I'm sick of talkin'
I'm not gonna let someone elses coffin rest
On my conscience 'Cuz
Step by step heart to heart
Left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit torn apart
We never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers
