Brothers to Brothers (Intro)

Tweedy Bird Loc:

Yeah, uh, Ronnie Ron, I'd like to thank you, man, for giving me a opportunity, man, to get my album out there and my life straight, and, helping the brothers on Bangin' on Wax, the Bloods and Crips, do stuff with their lives man, 'cause it's much needed, man.

Ronnie Ron:

Hey, thanks a lot Tweed. You know, uh, I just wanna say, you know thanks to you for, uh, waking me up, man, because let me know that there was a problem in the street. You know, um, me, I'm tired of my little brothers dying, and if you wouldn't have taken the cover off my eyes for me to get involved to do something, I'd probably be doing what I normally do! You know, is making record but not this! Tweedy in the background: Yeah. I'm glad Tweed, you pulled my coat, man, so I could get involved with the Bloods and Crips man, to find out what the problem is. But what really gets me man, is brothers is killin' each other over colors man, blue and red, you know what I'm sayin'? Like I was telling all the Bloods and Crips, man, "if you a Blood, you a Blood from the heart, if you a Crip, you a Crip from the heart, man, but you still a black man!", you know what I'm sayin'?, and these little brothers dying out there man, I mean brothers will never, will NEVER see the age of twenty one, man, that gets me! Brothers dead thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, in the graveyard, man, I mean, our population is shrinking!

KeyLow G:

You know what Ronnie Ron, it's funny to me, that you mentioned about the colors and stuff like that, I noticed that they wearin' certain things now and... people why they making these type of things like the hats, they makin' hats with Crip rags and Blood rags, you know, and... they even got shirts and... I don't understand it, man! It is like, they make it out of the material which represents the gangs, man, you know, it's... this stuff is designed to kill one another, man, especially the black man, man. Ronnie: Right. We here to produce more bass, but it seem like the babies are getting killed, before we even populate, man! Ronnie: Right. We need to come together, man, and stop doing all this stuff. Man, we killin' each other we got other races killin' us also, man. In the minute, we don't know how far we gon' go in this life, man, you know! Ronnie: You're right, man.

Ronnie Ron:

Me, I know I'm not here to say the worst, I want everybody to understand that, man, I'm here, to do my part. If I can save one life, I'm doing my job and right now I think I'm doing a hell of a job with the... with the cats that I'm working with, man. Background: Yeah, that's right... You know right now, uh right now, I'm in communication right now, with about four-five thousand Bloods and Crips and there's about two hundred-three hundred thousand strong out there in the streets right now, man, I mean they all over right now. My whole thing is this, man... brothers, Bangin' on Wax, is something to watch these brothers come together. Watch these brothers, talk all that shit, man, and, about the colors, about this and that, and don't get caught up. They ain't killin' you in real life because of what you sayin'! The whole order of the game is to get that name callin' shit out, man, so brothers to understand, callin' me a Slob or a Ricket that don't mean shit, homeboy, I ain't gon' kill you because of that, you know what I'm sayin'? This is my little brother to see, that's what I want the people out there to understand, Bangin' on Wax designed to get that frustration out only! But yet still, they can come in the studio, we can kick it, we can go to Portland, we can travel, we can do things! Man, we did a concert in Portland, man. Two or three thousand Crips and Bloods, they said it would never happen, it happened. Now, ONE fight, these Bloods and Crips, rocked the house, man! Nobody trip, brothers tying their rags together, man, and we havin' FUN, and that's what I'm talkin' 'bout, man, brothers need to come together, man, this the '94! It's too many of our little brothers out there dying,
man, too many little brothers that lost their lives behind this Blood and Crip shit, man! You brothers lemme tell you something, man, you can NOT get caught up in these words, man!

Tweedy Bird Loc:

Yeah, all about uh, people are saying y'all givin' us this, we, "the brothers need to get up off they lazy-ass and do that". No, y'all need to get up there, and, help brothers like Ronnie Phillips doin', givin' brothers opportunity, brothers is willin' to work for, Ronnie Ron: That's right! It's just the opportunity, you know what I'm sayin', we don't make laws, people talk about the system holdin' us back. It's not the systems holdin' Black people down, it's the people that's runnin' the system. Ronnie Ron: That's right. You know what I'm sayin'? They need to change the laws and policies, man! Why you holdin' uh... a record to get some brother while you out there try to get him a job? Rather go to jail, he come out to jail, he can't get a job? They need to change that, that's that bullshit! Ronnie Ron: Alright, alright. They need to change that! When the brother come outta jail, it should be, "sayin' he should get a job, or go BACK!" Ronnie Ron: Alright, that's right. That's right...

KeyLow G:

See, I think the rapping is a better opportunity for us now anyway, because uh... is nothing else out there to do, man, I mean... in order to do... people say well I ain't in it for the money, that's bullshit, you know what I'm sayin'? I'm in it for the money to support my family, man, you know what I'm sayin'? And I'm also here, to help others, man, and I hear like all these other people "oh, rap this and that", there's nothin' else to do, man! I mean if you tired of being in a rap, the brother gon' be out there robbing people, man, then you gon' say "damn, what can we do to do that?", you gonna build more prisons for brothers to go do that, and that ain't nothin' but modern day slavery to me. Background: That's right, for real.

Ronnie Ron:

How can we deal with a problem, we can't face the problem? My thing is facing the problem, let these brothers get on tape, so we can face that problem, man. Let these brothers hit up face to face, and call each other all these names, you know what I'm sayin', get that set up, man, so he ain't got that frustration built up in you. I'm seein' in... I done seein' a thousand of Bloods and Crips don't have the same animosity had, before they came in here. The brothers lost all their animosity, man, because they realized now killin' my brother, man, what up killin' a brother over a color for? It ain't about that! Hey but, hey we wanna get down on a tape, man, we can rock wit' it, you know what I'm sayin'? But I ain't gon' kill a man 'cause he called me, a Cuz or Blood, it ain't about that, man! And that's what I'm talkin' about, fellas, is too many of us out there dying, man, this is real! We got a... man I'm tellin' you, brothers, you got a brother, cousin, family and friends, man, think about them, I know that a lotta loved ones are lost, man, I tell you nobody heart go out more than mine, man, but right now, we gotta find a solution, man, to save the next man, because our population, fellas, is shrinking, man, our little brothers is dying too early, I'm serious, man, we dying TOO early! And we need to stop the madness, man!

Tweedy Bird Loc:

Any-anybody out there, it ain't about tryin' to get a reputation, you have the... a lotta of you O.G.'s need to stand up and check the B.G.'s, man, you know on the real, you know what I'm sayin'? Because the brothers is growin' up, they lookin' at what you done, and you know what I'm sayin', and they ain't gon' have nobody, to look up to for that leadership 'cause they left hangin' out there, you need to let them know, man, if they... been bangin', don't start it.

KeyLow G:

If somebody would have killed O.G. Sprocket or O.G. Handlebar, them two are not comin' back no more, you know what I'm sayin'? You can't bring those lives back, man, you gotta go on with your life, man, you gotta sit back and think, "hey, I don't wanna go out that way, man, catching a bullet or getting stabbed, or something like that", man! You need to wise up, brothers! I'm tellin' you that honest too, you need to wise up! Gangbangin', that I know, have never paid no one! Background: yeah. The only thing I see, that it paid, is an early grave, a wheelchair, and that's it, man, you know, we need to wise up, man!

Ronnie Ron:

Another thing, man, this is to all the brothers out there, man, anybody need to get involved with the streets, man, go on to our communities, our ghettos, man, help the gangs, help the brothers, regardless of what race we are, we need to come together, man, and find a solution so we can help the brothers. If you can't rap, let's create something, let's create other avenues, man, for the brothers in the street, man, so we can kinda stop the madness, man.

Tweedy Bird Loc:

WE, did not make guns, the bottom line, the way you get rid of a problem is to eliminate it, if there was no guns we wouldn't die, my grandfather, my friends that's growin' up that lost their lives behind a bullet, they would be still here!

Ronnie Ron:

Like I said too, man, you know, it's a difference between bein' a banger and a gangster, man, a gangster gets a lotta respect, you know and like I said before, you know, for brothers disrespectin' you, then you gotta handle yours, you know what I'm sayin', but right now this Blood & Crip stuff, man, it's on a whole other level out there, man, and like I said before, if you continue to livin' like that, man, if you ain't lookin' out for your little brother, your little sister, the next man's family and friends, and your family and friends, man, 'cause our population is shrinkin', man, you gon' wind up two places, I tell all the Bloods & Crips that, you bangin' like that to the fullest, you gon' wind up dead or in jail.

Outro:

Tweedy Bird Loc: I love all my dead homies, man.
KeyLow G: Yeah Ronnie Ron, I'd just like to say thank you... Tweedy Bird Loc: That's real., for givin' me the opportunity.
Ronnie Ron: Yeah man.
KeyLow G: You know what I'm sayin', much love.
Tweedy Bird Loc: Thanks.
Tweedy Bird Loc: This Tweedy Bird Loc...
Ronnie Ron: Same here.
KeyLow G: This KeyLow G.
I'd like to say what's up to the world, you know what I'm sayin'.
Ronnie Ron: Shouts out to all the Bloods & Crips man, Tweedy Bird Loc: Bloods & Crips., y'all still have man, let's just..., hey man, let's slow it down, buddy.