(feat. Akon, Shyne & Mavado)




They wanna live my life

They wanna walk in my shoes

They have no idea



All my life

I've always been told

You gotta be prepared 'cause the world is so cold

It's lonely at the top 'cause the bottom gets old

Never listen to 'em just go for what you know, yea

All my life they told me stop tryin

I never been the one to not go and get mine

I never been the one to not put it on the line

And I'm a be this way all my life, yea

All my life...



(I take you to the gully streets,

With the gully god... Mavado get 'em)



[Mavado:]

These streets is like a jungle and we're like the lion

Many of times me haffi strap with me iron

Never scared, never fret

Gangsta for life til my last breath

Momma even if dem kill me don't cry

I'm a gangsta for life, I was prepared to die

I'm a die rich, never die poor

Mansions in the sky, no more sleeping on the floor



All my life

I've always been told

You gotta be prepared 'cause the world is so cold

It's lonely at the top 'cause the bottom gets old

Never listen to 'em just go for what you know (yeah)

All my life they told me stop tryin

I never been the one to not go and get mine

I never been the one to not put it on the line

And I'm a be this way all my life (yeah)

All my life...



(From the streets of New York,

Where the streets don't sleep... Shyne get 'em)



[Shyne:]

All my life

I been rollin with the B's and the C's, 13's and the kings

They greens in the pen

Steady duckin the police, ain't a friend

Til they take me to hang and they fill me with lead

Like Fred Hampton for the people I bang

Til it come to an end I be bleeding in red

I live the story that you read in the Feds

Daddy wasn't there but my momma was a gen

But I ain't trippin though

That's how I kill a foe

We gon get it straight so tell me what it's hittin for

And if you didn't know

I really live the low

I got the O's and the Yo

Screamin really though



All my life

I've always been told

You gotta be prepared 'cause the world is so cold

It's lonely at the top 'cause the bottom gets old

Never listen to 'em just go for what you know (yeah)

All my life they told me stop tryin

I never been the one to not go and get mine

I never been the one to not put it on the line

And I'm a be this way



(All my life... Shyne get 'em)



[Shyne:]

All my life I've been sufferin

Steady strugglin

I run the streets where they screen for the government

Harry Cumberland coming from the cold

Got it like I'm Sutherland, but this ain't 24

This a ode for the O's and the Loc's

Partna's and the cookers doin life on the road

Long as you know you a part of Po

Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone

I spit the gully rap, I spend the bloody cash

I'm the shotta word to papa, where the money at?

I'm from the gully jack, where we bury rats

Ain't nothin funny, put a bullet in ya skully cap



All my life

I've always been told

You gotta be prepared 'cause the world is so cold

It's lonely at the top 'cause the bottom gets old

Never listen to 'em just go for what you know (yeah)

All my life they told me stop tryin

I never been the one to not go and get mine

I never been the one to not put it on the line

And I'm a be this way all my life (yeah)

All my life...