Yo, if y'all don't mind, I'd like to share a little somethin I wrote. About the closest nigga to me, ya heard me? My muthafuckin brother, ya know. And it ain't gotta be ya blood brother, it could be ya thug brother. We tend to say things that we don't really mean Like I hate you and I hope you die tomorrow of some deadly disease I never meant a word nigga, I was speakin out of anger At times, I treated you as if you was a stranger We both shared poverty, eatin commodity, you never lied to me Or knock me for nuthin I tried to be You was in the house sharpenin your art skills And I was in the backyard doin cartwheels Runnin with the niggas mama told me leave alone, come home Stealin bikes even though I knew my rights from wrong I used to envy you cause you intelligent And I hate you was a strange way of tellin it But that was irrelevant You was in the good schools, I went to the gutter with the thugs When a nigga shot dice and all the teachers did drugs You my nigga, til I'm dead and gone And I loved you like you was a part of me And that's why I'm singin this song Chorus: It's my nigga, my nerve, my one love