Real Good Dude Lyrics

Terrance was angeliques cousin

Everyone in the city had loved him

A science major with a bright future

Did impersonations if you bugged him

Became manager down at the corner store

They selected him for it

Never drank or did drugs, a total square

We respected him for it

Never been a thug, never busted heat

Just a normal dude who lived up the street

With his kids mother, he got one son

And a second one coming in another week

Never claimed colors, never caught cases

Just a good dude who was going places

Who had barbecues on the fourth of July

and cooked food for his neighbors

Always spoke wit passion, always had you laughing

Always there to help whenever you would ask him

After work he was headed home

Saw the cops on the block, guess he was walking passed them

And one of the officers grabbed him

Trying to press him and raz him

Said he looked like a dude they was looking for

They were just tryin to harass him

Terrance began to get aggro

It isn't a crime to be mad though

But Terrance is such a big dude,

The cop just got scared and he went in attack mode

Why are cops so scared of these black folks

Now this officer pulling his gat though

Shot a cap into Terrance back, for no reason at all

What the fuck he do that for?

Now he's on the ground

Blood is dripping out

All the kids on the block are just tripping out

How the hell you call cops on the cops though

Now his mother is crying and flipping out

Another future looking bright that just got flushed right down the tubes

Homie was a real good dude

Reminiscing on the steps and pouring liquor out for you, you, you

Cause homie was a real good dude

I cant believe its really true that he went out the way he did

Cause homie was a real good kid

And all the hurt and all the pain that this has put his mama through

Cause homie was a real good dude

Another ridiculous casualty

Unnecessary brutality

We don't learn nothing never change nothing

Follow tragedy's with a tragedy

We need empathy now and not apathy

The hatred it escalates rapidly

Meet officer Anthony Gomez

Who was brand new right out the academy

Just a young cop who was twenty two

A smart kid and a funny dude

Who had worked in his own community

Helping struggling teens and troubled youth

A gang banger in his adolescence

Who left the life cause he learned his lessons

Had a beautiful wife and a daughter at home

And he'd light up the room with his presence

A rookie cop never pulled his weapon

Not even once when he felt threatened

Just a good dude who saw good in people

And would help you out in a second

Then one day alone in his cruiser

He was shot in the head by a Ruger

Some angry teen who was mad about Terrance

And wanted revenge on these troopers.

Though Officer Gomez was not there

On that night, this young killer did not care

Now his wife and his daughter are mourning the loss

Of a husband and father its not fair

Another future looking bright that just got flushed right down the tubes.

Homie was a real good dude

Guns a fired in the air as the solute goes out to you

Cause homie was a real good dude

I cant believe its really true that he went out the way he did

Cause homie was a real good kid

And all the hurt and all the pain that this has put his mama through

Cause homie was a real good dude