You know a lotta of us brothers and sisters
 Ain't gone make it to see another day
 At the age of 12 I was on another page
 I wanted to jug upon tha other people were gettin' their pay
 My momma would always tell me about the direction that I was heading
 Like the majority of these kids today  man I was hard headed
 I wanted to know to much a little man is shookin' police
 Imagine a juvenile delinquent waitin' for a release date
 Wait, it's easy for me to blame it on my surroundings
 My folks raised me right, I just wanted to be the first fool pounding
 Up and down tha block, Fleetwood Caddilac
 But take it from me, young G, because that lifestyle ain't all that
 Unless you ready to strap ya gat and serve tha yak and jug the sack
 To get ya bread back, playa, I'm up on all that
 Cause being broke ain't no joke, boost up ya confidence
 There's two options:legal or illegal, you know the consequenses

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 Stay strong through all this drama, cause there's a remedy
 This world is so corrupt, jealousy and envy
 To all my folks in tha pen I'm sending this to you, ya know
 Hope you get to hear my rap, try to make it off parole

 The streets are full of sadness, dope and geto madness
 Besides your brain and slangin' them thangs the only apparatus
 Be that hot lead, I seen him yesterday but now my homie's dead
 I hope I ain't going crazy, I know I ain't losing my head
 No more obituaries, no more hearse, that shit hurt
 You damn right, but see there's game plus a part of life
 Got so much game to give they label my rap positive
 Why not take advantage of that and give it back to my neighbourhood
 Because them people wit them badges callin' themselves police
 Be them same suckers going home selling hella weed
 Everybody's human we need to live by the constitution
 I ain't no dummy, behind them walls of congress someone's juicin'
 How you think the streets get flooded wit guns and knifes and crack
 Us blacks ain't got the type of machinery to deliver that
 And the people that do kick back in mansions, pushing remotes
 I ain't no hater, but man the law can't stand them folks

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 Once that crack hit this world a lot of us lost our minds
 Foolz was selling everything in tha house down to the iron
 After Scarface I wanted to be like Tony Montana
 Until the narcs caught me slippin' on tha ...
 They followed me and sweated me as if I was a rich man
 I'm just a playa up out of Frisco tryin' to put my mack hand down
 I be around jsut like tha single
 Twinkle twinkle who's tha star, how I wonder where you are
 Stepped in tha back then test tha mic and break 'em off a proper ...
 That's what I did for representing Cali, you know
 I used to be local but now I'm a nation wide professional
 Once I get home to tha Bay, six days are so boring
 Down to call for my P.O. she wants to test my urine
 Now I'm tryin' to think did I drink or did I smoke too much
 Here I am in her office, I forgot to hide these bucks
 Livin' beyond your means you know that's a violation, bro
 Peace to all my homies across the world, stay off parole

 Yeah, Pac, you know Ragtop we got love, man

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