[00:00.000]Protecting Ryan, protecting Ryan
[00:03.958]Back when I was a teenager
[00:06.376]Me, my brother Vish, and my brother Greg
[00:10.383]Was playing basketball at the court
[00:13.615]There was these two ****** in general
[00:15.480]That just kept fouling, just fouling, fouling
[00:17.717]So I went up for a lay-up, I'm like "Ball, *****!"
[00:20.812]God damn, they talkin' ****, I'm talkin' ****
[00:22.836]He jumps up in my face (what you gon' do, little *****?)
[00:25.706]So I throw an overhand right and a hook, "*****!"
[00:28.183]Wham! Wham! This ***** falls to the ground asleep
[00:31.520]All you see is Z's, birdies, stars, you hear all that ****
[00:36.828]And then I run up on the ***** that he was with that was also talkin' ****
[00:41.055]I said, "What's up?"
[00:42.193]Soon as I said that, this ***** Vish just threw the basketball
[00:45.168]And hit him in the face hard as ****, boom!
[00:47.222]Now if he was about to say something tough, he must have just changed his mind
[00:51.434]Cause that ***** turned around and broke running
[00:53.877]All I heard that ***** saying was, "I don't want a problem!"
[01:00.393]And right when I was thinking to myself, "Where the **** is Greg at?"
[01:03.494]I'm reminded of why I never call him when there's a problem
[01:06.177]He got this thing about protectin' Ryan, he just kinda overdo ****
[01:10.118]So the next thing that happened in my mind, went like this:
[01:13.867]Greg flew into the picture, possibly from out of the sky
[01:17.945]I think he was wearing a cape
[01:20.348]He landed infront of me like dun-dun-da-dun
[01:22.737]With a knife in his hand, with the handle taped up
[01:26.510]That he had been keeping under his front driver's seat
[01:29.093]In his car the whole time and nobody knew
[01:32.707]This ***** just blacked out and started swinging the knife at the dude I dropped
[01:36.702]Wah wah wah! "I'mma kill you ************!" And start cuttin' the *****
[01:40.635]I had to grab him like, "Greggy, what are you doing? Don't kill this *****!"
[01:43.949]The whole park just went silent
[01:47.031]And then the silence gets broken by police sirens
[01:50.785]And all you hear from each way is people going, "Greg throw the knife on the roof!
[01:55.349]Greg throw the knife in the pool! Get rid of the knife, Greg!"
[01:59.972]And he drops the bloody knife right in the grass
[02:02.312]I look at him, he looks back at me
[02:04.859]Prison bars just come in between us and surrounds him completely
[02:08.859]My mother and father just outta nowhere pops into the picture
[02:11.632]And I said, "You ain't have to try to kill him Greggy"
[02:15.691]My mother and father, "Why you had to try and kill him Greggy?"
[02:20.006]He said, "I was protecting Ryan!"
[02:22.536]And then he went to prison and started writing letters home
[02:25.267]"Dear Momma, I'm so sorry, all I was doing was protectin' Ryan"
[02:32.722]And then he came home
[02:34.252]"Ryan got a record deal, did you hear, Greg?"
[02:37.089]"Yeah, I deal with a record everyday that I got for calling myself protecting Ryan"
[02:43.225]"But you ain't have to call his wife a ***** right to her face"
[02:45.320]"See here we go again, don't nobody never see my side of the story
[02:47.881]Every time I turn around, y'all either defending or protecting Ryan"
[02:52.487]I think I get it now, thank you for protectin' me
[02:57.889]I wouldn't be where I'm at today if you hadn't protected me
[03:02.356]Thank you, thank you for teaching me how to rap
[03:06.950]Thank you for teaching me how to scrap
[03:09.979]Thank you for sacrificing your life so I can have a better life
[03:14.742]Greg, is that what you want to hear?