I grit my teeth to keep release, kkep my fatih and hope (hope)
 Need to stop stressing before I have a stroke
 Up in lower development housin' (housin'), talk and turmoil (turmoil)
 Food in our refrigerator never had a chance to spoil
 You know why? (Why?) Wasn't rich wasn't poor (wasn't poor)
 You know why? (Do you know why?) cause it's the boss player from next
 door
 (from next door)
 Sleepin' on the floor, hectic, (hectic), but that's expected
 B-Legit:
 When I was young, I never could afford no Nikes, and everybody else
 had
 brand new bikes
 I use to hike to school, in the rain with fools, 13 deep in the ghetto
 streets (in the ghetto streets)
 Hook:
 LeVitti:I've struggled and I've strived
 Suga T:Struggled and I've strived
 LeVitti:Been a hustler all my life
 Suga T:Been a hustler all my life
 Both:I ain't rich and I ain't poor, did more dirt than you would know
 LeVitti: I've struggled and I've strived, strived
 D-Shot:
 In 1984 was the year for the Shot to step through the door (through
 the
 door)
 That's when my daddy walked away from my mama (mama)
 She tried to work it out but it wasn't no stoppin' (stoppin')
 Barely paying the rent, she had four mouths to feed, hot water and
 corn
 bread (corn bread)
 Watching the stress while my momma straight handlin' things (handlin'
 things) ?
 Suga-T:
 Coming up wasn't easy for the no should I be (c'mon)
 Living dad to day depended on the first of fifteen
 I had 2 kids to raise from a teenage love
 You couldn't tell me a thing because I knew what was up
 Hook
 B-Legit:
 I brought it down the block, crooked at 16 (16)
 Bought my first 22 from a dope fiend (dope fiend)
 I kept my nose clean, paper by all means
 And only real niggas rolled on the team
 E-40:
 Ah, ah, a most of you ain't never had to pawn (had to)
 A lot of you ai't had to stoned out (stoned out)
 But there's something different on my behalf (behalf)
 Do what I do to get the cash (get the cash)
 D-Shot:
 My daddy didn't give a shit, I had to struggle and strive to make a
 motherfuckin' grip
 And every dollar and 15 cents, I gave to my mamma cause we wasn't that
 rich
 Suga-T:
 Me the knot, give up the twat, hoes wasn't taking that shit on my
 block
 We had a lot of foes, when we first started out (spit it girl)
 Now there's players everywhere from the north to the south (beeotch)
 Hook