From the cradle to the ain't never been easy living in the ghetto From the cradle to the Life never been easy
June 16, 1971, mama gave To a hell heavenly son See the doctor tried to me But I him back
My first were "Thug for life" and "Papa the Mac" I'm bustin' on mothafuckas ballin' Listen you can hear my 14 callin'
From out the window of my top I got my cocked Bustin' at when will it stop? Now tell me are you scared of the
Can't close my I see visions And even with this thug livin', I escape prison ? Penitentiary was an all day thang The only way to and if you slang
Better have Nikes on 'cause when we fight It's in the middle of the night with no on Hey, there be a God 'cause I feel lucky Paranoid out my mind, this tryin' to rush me
Am I goin' to jail? Look at me Commin' out the court house all about my and bank Never die, be a mothafuckas and makin' thugs out you suckas From the cradle to the
From the to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto
From the to the grave, since a little bitty child I've been known to get ill and kinda wild Pop, pop, just like the part in my walk with street talk Go up the block in the dark with less spark
Surveillance on a nigga day Waitin' on my daddy just to take his ass Now Mama always workin', tryin' to make meet So now a young bein' raised by the streets
And then the only other one that ever showed me Was my fiend uncle strung out on drugs A thug, just me, my mama out here on our own So I got two gatts, one black and one of
Now I don't hurt nobody but I must defend mine It's all the I got, so stop and walk a thin line Young be brave and keep on thuggin' From the cradle to the grave, the cradle to the grave
From the cradle to the Life ain't been easy, living in the ghetto
From the cradle to the grave, I'm to say I made it far, many G's died hard They know that got was their name here up on a sad thinkin' about the times
Life goes on, I'm steady lost in land As the war I got no home Don't no friends neither It's just me by my so I married my Nina
I keeps her wherever I go, I my ho leave home with out my sugar I'm hafta a nigga Mama told me not to no punks
And kick his ass if he lay a on me Since then I known Sometimes I my own self stupid I stay shootin' at marks Get up in police reports
Since the cradle, been ungrateful My toy was a gun I got sprung and to love weapons
But now I'm through money And with street fame Somebody my cap And put me in my
the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto the cradle to the grave Life ain't been easy, living in the ghetto
18th, that rainy day, my mama gave birth To a baby boy, in hell on earth day one it wasn't fun I never had a crumb Daddy worked two jobs and won't stop drinkin' rum
I tried to cope loc but my family's And my short so now I gotta sling dope In a filled with pain, it's a fuckin' shame The white man got a mothafucka cane
So now it's on from dusk to I get my serve on Always in the spot with my glock slingin' at the rocks The shit don't stop I'm steady dodgin' I flip flop, hear my glock cock thug till I drop
And if I hit the pen I do my time on my bunk reminiscing about the good times It's fucked up a nigga gotta grow up doing But the cradle to the grave I'ma put in work
the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto
Time's movin' fast, will I another day? So I pray and I lay my A-K Did I sell my soul as a young All the things I did wishin' held me But they did
I can't take it, will I make it to my older Before I'm shot up or locked up in a cage Lord, help me, guide me, me 'Cause the way that Daddy raised me crazy
Do or die, nigga, pull the trigger give a fuck You'd be in jail than get your ass bucked Nobody cares, it's me against the Keepin' murder on my and my Tech-9
I got nothin' to lose, payin' dues, nigga you die? I get high then my mission is a You'd better jet when I hit your set I'm commin' runnin', yellin', "Evil mind", as I'm gunnin'
One in the for the anger that I build inside For the mothers that cried, for my that died The is an ending, am I just a slave So I got to be from the cradle to the grave
the cradle to the grave Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto From the to the grave Life ain't been easy, living in the ghetto