[Too $hort]

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..



Nowwwwwwwwwwww I come from, the Oakland town

Task force roll and rock, cold cracked down

Young brothers my age makin dollars so long

Drive a brand new Benz with a cellular phone

See his diamonds and gold, call him Big Bank Bob

Got a ring for each finger and he can't get a job

This is not a song I made about crack

It's all about losin what you can't get back

Cause the name of the game is to control yo' life

and all the things you do you must do them right

It's not my life, it's on you baby

What's really goin on is that cash money

How you make it, it doesn't matter to me

Work at MacDonald's or just slang them ki's

or you can be like me and go straight legit

Drive a brand new Benz and they can't say shit



It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..



Partners in your face, ain't even your friend

Probably have to blast him if you see him again

And if you don't blast him you'll get shot in the head

Seven days later you'll be buried and dead

I can't be like that, the only thing you fear

Homeboy you can't see it but you know it's there

It's called tomorrow, whatcha gonna do with that

cut school, sell a few dopefiends crack?

It's not a one-way street, it's more like a dead-end

So if you take it, you better turn back my friend

I know a lot of young brothers don't think things through

They really don't know what they wanna do

When you lag, you lose, you start payin your dues

You can't kick back and let your bankroll stack

You'll be stuck on stupid, for smokin a friend

Ten years from now you'll still be in the pen



It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

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cause when you waste it..



I got my eighteens pumpin, ridin the five

People lookin at me like I stole the ride

Am I a gangster, player, makin them G's

cocaine dealer with the Z's and V's

Can't tell em nothin, so I say, "Whassup?"

They get mad, I don't give a fuck

I keep ridin, sidin, whippin and dippin

Look at all my homeboys trippin

They'll knock you out, one punch like the champ

Goin to jail is like summer camp

We shake hands one day, kill each other the next

And if you don't like it it's just like that

Cause I come from, the city of dope

It couldn't be saved by John the Pope

But since I have the chance, I'll say in the rhyme:

we have to stop the killin sometime (soon)



It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

	{P-Funk sample}

cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

	{P-Funk sample}

cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

	{P-Funk sample}

cause when you waste it..

It's your life, don't be stupid dope..

	{P-Funk sample}

cause when you waste it..