Cain & Abel

Yaknow, I grew up with five sisters and no brothers

I be in Sunday school, they tell us stories about Cain and Abel

You know, the first murder was committed by one brother to another brother

I looked around my neighborhood as a child and I saw the crime and violence

And I said wow, how could two people that love each other bring this into the world

God bless em!

Two brothers, a single mother, a father that loved em

But not enough to leave the streets and make their momma a husband

The only males in their life was a couple of cousins

That their momma had babies cuz she was strugglin'

But typical ghetto shit, the cousins was hustlin'

But should I say halfway, cuz they got high like they're customers

The oldest boy was Cain and the youngest was Abel

Abel distracted thugs, came to Cain off the table

They decided to? Team and serve the fiends

Like pushed it to the malice, they be up to the green

Furnished their apartment like a palace, made their momma a queen

Abel was only 12, Cain barely 13

No idea of the evil that the streets would bring

Infatuated by images on the big screen

Like Nas and it was written in hash filled dream

By 17 they was on they grind

They were listening to old-school rap from momma's time

Bought myself an Uzzi and my brother A. 9

Bought myself an Uzzi and my brother A. 9

It's what Cain said as Abel walked by his side

Into Canonroll's pawnshop

Cain bought himself an ar15 and his brother a Glock

Through the years they would spray it, they kept pain on the block

Till every square foot? Was locked

More money, more murder, more mobs raised to the top

But like the Chambers brothers, like the Flinnery boys

When you're cut from the same cloth, made from the same stock

Sometimes you can't share the same space at the top

These young brothers retired their young mother

Abel opened businesses in the name of his mother

Cain dropped the big moneybags to his mother

And once a week they sat down for Sunday supper

She told em one Sunday how she loved em and she hugged em

Sensing something's wrong, they asked her what's her trouble

She answer 'child give me rings, riches and way more'

'But there's one thing that my heart truly prays for'

Cain said momma, don't say, stop

Gave her 100 k cash, told her, lady go shop

Abel looked at his mother and the water in her eyes

'That's nothin', baby, I'm done flippin' the pies'

Cain looked at his brother with fury up in his eyes

Locked him and he socked him in his left and right eye

And he hit him and he bit him and he split him in two

All he said while he beat him was 'why she love you? '

The more momma yell stop, the more hate he would take in

Abel was Remello, and Cain was Wayne Nacen

The love's gon' get you, so it's back to the Glock

In the middle of the struggle, all we heard was pop

Unlike Remello, Abel was not able to survive that shot

Unlike Remello, Abel was not able to survive that shot