(feat. Voice)



[Craig G]

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: Voice]

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)



[Craig G]

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?



[Chorus]