[TV newscaster speaking indiscinctly]
- I'm bored, let's do something else.
- I got this book, my dad gave it to me.
[TV newscaster]
♪ 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 ♪
of the whole world on my shoulders ♪
♪ I ain't never suppose to show it ♪
♪ My crew ain't suppose to know it ♪
♪ Even if it means going toe to toe with the Benzino It don't matter ♪
in battles that I can handle unless I absolutely have to ♪
♪ I'm suppose to set an example ♪
♪ I need to be the leader ♪
♪ My crew looks for me to guide 'em ♪
♪ If something ever just pop off ♪
♪ I'm suppose to be beside 'em ♪
♪ That Ja, I tried to squashed it ♪
♪ It was too late to stop it ♪
♪ There's a certain line ♪
♪ You just don't cross it, and he crossed it ♪
♪ I heard him say Hailie's name on a song and I just lost it ♪
♪ It was crazy, this went way beyond some Jay-Z and Nas ♪
♪ And even though the battle was won, I feel like we lost it ♪
♪ I spent so much energy on it, honestly I'm exhausted ♪
♪ And I'm so caught in it ♪
♪ I almost feel like 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 want to destroy something I helped build ♪
♪ It wasn't my intentions, my intentions were good ♪
♪ I went through my whole career with out ever mentioning ♪
♪ And that was just outta respect, for not running my mouth ♪
♪ And talking 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 ♪
♪ Now I'm talking a man who literally saved my life ♪
♪ Like, it I understand, this is business ♪
♪ And this here just isn't none of my business ♪
♪ But still knowing that it could pop off ♪
♪ At any minute ♪
♪ 'Cause 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 ♪
♪ It used to be a time when you could just say a rhyme ♪
♪ And wouldn't have to worry about one of your people dying ♪
♪ But now it's elevated ♪
♪ 'Cause once you put someone's kids in it ♪
♪ It just gets escalated, it ain't just words no more, is it ♪
♪ It's a different ball game ♪
♪ You call names and you ain't just rapping ♪
♪ We actually tried to stop the 50 ♪
♪ And Ja beef from happening ♪
♪ 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 start yappin' in magazines how he stabbed him ♪
♪ And 50 smashed him, mash him and let him have it ♪
♪ Meanwhile my intentions pulled me in other directions ♪
♪ Some receptionist said the source ♪
♪ Who answers phones at his desk has an obsession for me ♪
♪ And thinks that I'll be his resurrection ♪
♪ Tries to blow the dust of his mic and make a new record ♪
♪ But now he's the game up 'cause one of the ways I came up ♪
♪ Was through that publication ♪
♪ The same one that made me famous ♪
♪ Now the owner of it got a grudge against me for nothing ♪
♪ But, that over-sucker can get it too, then ♪
♪ But I'm so busy being pissed off, I don't stop to think ♪
♪ That we just inherited 50's 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 they support us ♪
♪ And maybe shout 'em out in a rap or up in a chorus ♪
♪ To show we love 'em back ♪
♪ And to let 'em know how important it is ♪
♪ To have Runyon Avenue soldiers up in our corners ♪
♪ Their loyalty to us is worth more then any award is ♪
♪ But I ain't trying to have none of my people hurt ♪
♪ Or murdered, it ain't worth it ♪
♪ I can't think of a perfecter way to word it ♪
♪ Then to just say that I love y'all ♪
♪ Too much to see the verdict ♪
♪ I'll walk away from it all ♪
♪ Before I'll let it go any further ♪
♪ But don't get it twisted, it's not a plea that I'm coping ♪
♪ I'm just willing to be the bigger man ♪
♪ If y'all can quit popping off at the jaws ♪
♪ With the knocking, 'cause frankly I'm sick of talking ♪
♪ I'm not gonna let someone else's coffin ♪
♪ Rest on my conscience 'cause ♪
♪ 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 ♪
♪♪♪
[music fading]