For every shell niggas bust, we bust at ourselves

from Nas – Drunk By Myself Lyrics on Rap Genius

Violence effects not only the victim, but the culprit. It will eventually catch up with them either by retaliation, the law, or through their own conscience. He is literally saying that shooting someone else is the same as shooting yourself.

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