| So I walked 'round with a vest and a strap on my waist
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| I’m living in a strange place where all the odds are against me
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| I’m doin bad and the shit you got is startin to tempt me
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| We never had cause the ghetto got us trapped in depression
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| Learnin lesson after lesson cause the devil be testin
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| It got me stressin, keep my Smith N Wesson cocked at all times
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| Cause even I could fall to victim at the drop of a dime
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| But that’s the chances I got to take to escape all of this madness
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| That put you in the casket for the cornbread and cabbage
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| Lord knows I’m tryin to find an exit out the ghetto
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| But it won’t let go, that’s why I got to tote my pistol
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| Ghetto living
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| (Father forgive me, I know that what I do is wrong)
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| Ghetto living
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| (I been tryin a find a better way for so long) x2
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| Soldiers die in my world but people look at killers like stars
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| We duckin from the laws cause we ain’t tryin to live behind bars
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| Growin up with less, envious of what the next man had
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| Never knew what livin good was till I started movin them sacks |
| My hood infested with crack, that’s why I paint a picture so vivid
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| I tell it cause I live it, runnin with boss bitches and niggas that get
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| convicted
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| This street got us all, nothin changed in the game but the players
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| I’m talkin about the hustlers, the ballers, the killers and the rhyme sayers
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| That’s why I ain’t scared to pop a nigga, stop a nigga, drop a nigga
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| I only fuck with the real, cause it’s real in my battlefield
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| I hope it’s true what they say, and that the father forgives
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| Excuse me for the things I do cause in the ghetto I live
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| This shit’s goin get even realer, so you ain’t gotta ask, I feel ya
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| I live the life of a hard knock, that ghetto bitch on the block
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| My nigga had a shop, I took the rocks and bag weed
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| Chased them broads down with china, and ran alot of minors
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| With big tymer dreams of money, hoes and clothes
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| They didn’t get it, tombstones and jail cells also come with it
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| I pity all them babies born from crack mama’s
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| But I’m a mama too and when the bills is due I gotta
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| Get it how I live, bitter tears I cry |
| My best friend, my cousin and my man died
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| Or should I say was murdered
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| I know you heard the same stories before
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| We walk the streets like we poverties whores behind the dollar bill
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| This still life got us dying so young
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| Precious Lord let the new day come
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| Uh, come on
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| Cause ain’t no winning when your living like that
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| It’s the blueprint, the plan, the set up, the trap |