| Yeah yeah yeah yeah
|
| From the top, from the top
|
| Yeah yeah yeah nigga
|
| 41st Side
|
| Craig G nigga
|
| Yeah, yeah nigga
|
| Uh huh
|
| This is how we gon' do this shit right here
|
| Let me just take you niggas back real quick
|
| Listen, listen here
|
| Yo yo yo
|
| It goes a 1−2-3, 3, the 2−1
|
| My man Larry Lye, his name’s DJ Run
|
| Thats what I used to listen to in 1983
|
| Eleven years old
|
| Four years since I chose to be an emcee
|
| Seven on the scene, mop necks, ???
|
| On the mic over there in the park by the water
|
| Come from outta town to the Bridge, and try to sound like you tough
|
| End up on the black strip and get slaughtered
|
| But I was too young to run with those older niggas and their guns
|
| Plus this music had me strung, I got more rhymes than a bank got duns
|
| Sounds funny now, but it was the shit at the time
|
| High Fedelity blew every house party
|
| Back on Vernon, but I was just a youth, I was learnin
|
| Thats what you need to do, first be a student then a tutor
|
| If not then this verse will kill ya future, motherfucker
|
| Chorus
|
| Oooohh, life is much too cruel (much too cruel)
|
| I can’t change for you (change for you)
|
| I’ll keep doing me (doing me)
|
| While you keep doing you (ooohhhh)
|
| Life is much too cruel (much too cruel)
|
| I can’t change for you (change for you)
|
| I’ll keep doing me (doing me)
|
| While you keep doing you (ooohhhh)
|
| I seen Grand Wizard Theodore cut with cuffs in the reese
|
| Back when I rocked the light beige sheet
|
| In hip hop my life plays deep
|
| Fuck around with the wrong niggas and they might spray heat
|
| Listen here, I’m from 4117 apartment 2A
|
| Fuck around, and nigga, on the ground you lay
|
| Crab niggas fake jacks like there’s five in a deck
|
| Tellin ancient war stories as if they earning respect
|
| I roll dolo, but my crew of personalities swarm
|
| When I perform, you stay locked on like the cells of the dorms
|
| At eleven half asses emcees heads I’m severing
|
| From the neck above, you get no respect or love
|
| You can take it with the lyrics or hand in hand with the glove
|
| I come ninety six buildings of drama, drugs, and slugs
|
| Craig G nigga
|
| Lets take 'em back nigga
|
| Its like that nigga what? |