From the cradle to the Life ain't never easy living in the ghetto From the cradle to the ain't never been easy
June 16, 1971, mama gave To a hell raisin' son See the doctor tried to me But I smacked him
My first words "Thug for life" and "Papa the Mac" I'm bustin' on these ballin' Listen you can my mini 14 callin'
out the window of my drop top I got my cocked Bustin' at when will it stop? Now tell me are you of the dark?
Can't my eyes I see visions And with this thug livin', will I escape prison ? Penitentiary chances was an all day The way to advance and if you slang
Better have your Nikes on 'cause when we It's in the middle of the night with no on Hey, there must be a God 'cause I feel Paranoid out my mind, this mothafucka's tryin' to me
Am I goin' to Look at me bailin' Commin' out the court house all my mail and bank Never die, be a hustler and makin' thugs out you suckas From the to the grave
From the to the grave Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto
From the cradle to the grave, a little bitty child I've known to get ill and kinda buck wild Pop, pop, just the part that's in my walk with street talk Go up the block in the dark with less spark
Surveillance on a every day on my daddy just to take his ass away Now Mama always workin', to make ends meet So now a young niggas bein' by the streets
And then the only other one that ever me love Was my dope fiend strung out on drugs A straight thug, just me, my out here on our own So I got two gatts, one and one of chrome
Now I don't wanna hurt nobody but I must defend It's all the fuck I got, so stop and walk a thin Young niggas be brave and on thuggin' From the cradle to the grave, the cradle to the grave
From the cradle to the Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto
From the to the grave, I'm glad to say I made it this far, many G's died They know got was their name here up on a wall It's sad about the times
goes on, I'm steady lost in this land As the war zone I got no Don't have no friends It's me by my lonely 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 me not to trust no punks
And kick his ass if he lay a on me Since then I been Sometimes I think my own stupid 'Cause I shootin' at marks Get twisted up in reports
Since the cradle, been ungrateful My toy was a gun I got sprung and to love weapons
But now I'm through with And through street fame Somebody my cap And put me in my
From the cradle to the Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto From the to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto
March 18th, that day, my mama gave birth To a baby boy, trapped in hell on From day one it fun I never had a crumb Daddy worked two jobs and won't stop drinkin' rum
I tried to loc but my family's broke And my short so now I gotta sling dope In a game filled with pain, a fuckin' shame The white man got a mothafucka slingin'
So now it's on from dusk to I get my serve on in the spot with my glock slingin' rocks at the rocks The don't stop I'm steady dodgin' cops I never flip flop, hear my glock cock till I drop
And if I hit the pen I gotta do my Sittin' on my bunk reminiscing about the times It's fucked up a nigga gotta grow up doing But from the cradle to the grave put in work
the cradle to the grave Life ain't been easy, living in the ghetto the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, living in the
Time's movin' fast, will I another day? So I and I lay with my A-K Did I my soul as a young kid? All the things I did wishin' held me But never did
I can't it, will I make it to my older age? Before I'm shot up or up in a fuckin' cage Lord, me, guide me, save me 'Cause that's the way that Daddy me crazy
Do or die, nigga, pull the trigger don't a fuck You'd rather be in than get your ass bucked Nobody cares, it's me against the Keepin' murder on my mind and my
I got nothin' to lose, payin' dues, nigga you wanna I get high then my is a walk-by You'd better jet when I hit your set I'm commin' runnin', yellin', "Evil mind", as I'm gunnin'
One in the chamber for the anger that I build For the mothers that cried, for my homies that The beginning is an ending, am I just a So I got to be brave from the cradle to the
the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, living in the the cradle to the grave Life ain't never been easy, in the ghetto