damn  these hard times be more vicious
 makin me feel like the liquidation of the ghetto

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 it's hot around my way
 lookin for a better day X4

 [Prime Suspect #1]
 good and bad  right and wrong lurking the land
 you choose your fate gracefully
 save your soul if you can
 life is shorter everyday my nigga make the right moves
 choose your hustle spots wisely police give you the blues
 lock you up put a strike by your name you on paper
 see the white boy be on every money and your paper
 put the weed down now cause we face incarceration
 stipulations of probation strike two is what you're facin
 in the mandatory joes, now you ain't gon bounce
 short timin round them lifers hopin that you touch down
 if I see the free world again, I'm a ball
 put my back up on the wall hopin blessins from the lord
 3rd strike twenty to life nigga I choose death
 leave a coppers scar wet I ain't aimin for the chest
 44 chrome to the dome, uzi man did it
 once again Prime Suspect guilty til proven innocent

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 [Mystikal]
 I'm sweatin cause it's hot and humid outside
 the spot where we lay it down
 I amplify the city streets and terrorize the underground
 nigga respect gangsta and run in the streets they walk on
 FBI might finish listenin to the car phone I talk on
 waitin on me, wantin me to mess up, put my hands in some dirt
 but I'm a legitimate businessman, I sell light green t-shirts
 go on officer leave me alone, I ain't be got no weapon
 I don't even know what you talkin bout, I be makin records
 hits size I'm too busy for this bull and kicks
 was it tinted when you pulled this six
 over to the side of the road
 got my hand on my heater cause I'm tired of you hoes
 let the dog sniff my vehicle and my clothes
 but I bet I make it home cause you gotta let me go
 I'm too cold for an iron box
 I need city lights, the projects, and the boondocks

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 [Prime Suspect #2]
 I'm lookin for that wall
 so I can put my back up against it
 cause it ain't no love from the beginnin to the endin
 they got me pledgin the flag that wanna see me doin 10 in
 see it's vicious out chea on these 3rd world streets
 them people tryin to stop the hustle
 but yet they survivor just like me
 makin liquidate runnin in them hater streets
 so I tell my brother get the cake for me if need be

 [Prime Suspect #3]
 look let me run into ya'll cause the pilots burnin over
 I've been doin the same thing since lil
 but now I'm called a soldier
 and I'm older and watch fake soldiers transform cause they own
 see them same soldiers upstate and they ain't bout no home
 why it's already a livin hell for the average thick soldiers
 survival of the fittest watch yourself
 is what poppa always told me
 why we already misled, bustin hot metals
 I just need to step back and take a look
 cause they liquidatin the ghetto

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