[sample:]

Black people y'all better realize that we losing

You better gotdamn fight, and die if you got to

Nahmsayin but now niggaz is ready to die over a coat

A necklace 'round your throat! That's bullshit


[Hook:]

[Crayon:]

A criminal mind when living behind

Material times just seek and you'll find

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin

[Crayon:]

Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papes

But sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin


[Crayon:]

The hottest summers, coldest winters

Kids play ball with frozen fingers

While the gunsmoke often lingers

We pack pistols by our penis

Blow the brains from out them dreamers

Blood spilling on the cement

Painting walls making murals

For the ones no longer breathing

Writing raps for my eulogies

Pawning TVs and jewelry

Some of us perfectly happy

Living in the lap of poverty

Choices that apply to me

Pay rent or be homeless

By the way this shit is going

We gonna never be owners

Got no time to brush shoulders

When police all up on us

They be coming at us daily

With evictions and warrants

Trying to escape

The corners and coffins

Where stick up kids be warring

And any face that's foreign

Can get shot off of boredom


[Hook:]

[Crayon:]

A criminal mind when living behind

Material times just seek and you'll find

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin

[Crayon:]

Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papes

But sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin


[Rock Shabazz:]

New York streets is hell, shades of blue and oranges

The rotten apple stuck in Adam or Eve's oesophagus

Your head is a sarcophagus, your cranium's a coffin

That's why street niggaz is mentally dead very often

Amateur abortions, toilet bowls is coffins

High school is warzones, educational system rotten

Kids commit crimes out of boredom

Started regretting as soon as the officers caught em

We're stuck in Sodom and Gomorrah

Same crime, bail varies

Mama sayin Hail Marys

Shorties getting knocked up, so now forcefully getting married

Riding subway cars to entry level jobs

Watching Black men hardened from years of tryna act hard

I get slight chills from these niggaz' ice grills

Civilzed still, thirst like a savage for the bills

On the corner of Black Man boulevard and Nigga ave searchin for direction

These streets is teachin valuable lessons


[Hook:]

[Crayon:]

A criminal mind when living behind

Material times just seek and you'll find

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin

[Crayon:]

Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papes

But sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!

[Scratches]

That's the life we livin


[Scratches:]

I keep livin like this I might lose it

Life (Life) as a shortie shouldn't be so rough

I keep livin like this I might lose it

I walk down the block with my stomach in knots

Life as a shortie shouldn't be so rough

Living in the ghetto trying to get the hell out

That's the life we livin


[Rock Shabazz:]

Nigga I gotta get paid!

I've been waisting my life since the tenth grade

It's time to get paid!

By legal means, no sense in doing crimes

Niggaz is so blind they take pride in doing time

Different judge same case, different bid same place

It's like having a different exponent with the same base

Same mistakes with greater stakes, saddened by the lives we livin

A grown ass man gotta make the wise decisions


[Crayon:]

Catch post-traumatic syndrome

From semi automatic shots flown

In these cold city streets where I roam

Same block different time zone

Some cats is 7-30

I wake very early

Landlord like Mr.Ferley

And I never get no peace

My mom is filled with grief

At night I hear her crying

Cause they ain't renew the lease

I'm looking forward to some beef

And each days a mystery

And even if I D-I-E

I swear 2 God I wanna leave


[Hook: Crayon]

A criminal mind when living behind

Material times just seek and you'll find

(Scratches)

That's the life we livin

[Crayon]

Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papes

But sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!

(Scratches)

That's the life we livin

[x2]


[Hook: Crayon]

A criminal mind when living behind

Material times just seek and you'll find

Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papes

But sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!


[Conversation:]

Crayon: Yeah Rock yo I'm tired man. I'm bout to hit the ave and get a shape-up son

Rock : Yo word you 'bout to get up on the ave son?

Crayon: Yeah a nigga hungry about to get a hero

Rock: Word man I'm bout to jump back on my train man you

knowhati'msayin get back to my hood see what's going on right now man

Crayon: Alright no doubt man same time next week?

Rock: Yo yo you heard about your man Paul son?

Crayon: Everyday shit man. Niggaz is dyin everyday man. I'm tired of that shit

Rock: Man niggaz man got my mans locked up on some bullshit


(That's the life we livin...)