From the to the grave Life ain't been easy living in the ghetto From the to the grave Life never been easy
June 16, 1971, gave birth To a raisin' heavenly son See the doctor to smack me But I him back
My first were "Thug for life" and "Papa the Mac" I'm bustin' on these ballin' Listen you can hear my mini 14
From out the of my drop top I got my cocked Bustin' at niggas when will it Now tell me are you scared of the
Can't close my I see visions And with this thug livin', will I escape prison ? Penitentiary was an all day thang The way to advance and if you slang
have your Nikes on 'cause when we fight 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 jail? Look at me Commin' out the court house all about my mail and Never die, be a hustler mothafuckas and makin' thugs out you From the cradle to the
From the cradle to the ain't never been easy, living in the ghetto
From the cradle to the grave, since a little bitty I've been known to get ill and kinda buck Pop, pop, just like the part that's in my walk with street Go runnin' up the block in the dark with spark
Surveillance on a every day Waitin' on my daddy just to take his ass Now Mama always workin', tryin' to make meet So now a young niggas bein' raised by the
And the only other one that ever showed me love Was my fiend uncle strung out on drugs A straight thug, just me, my 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 fuck I got, so and walk a thin line niggas be brave and keep on thuggin' From the cradle to the grave, from the to the grave
From the cradle to the Life never been easy, living in the ghetto
From the to the grave, I'm glad to say I made it this far, G's died hard They know that got was name here up on a wall sad thinkin' about the times
Life goes on, I'm steady in this land As the war zone I got no Don't no friends neither just 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 plug a nigga Mama me not to trust no punks
And his ass if he lay a hand on me Since then I known I think my own self stupid 'Cause I shootin' at marks Get twisted up in police
Since the cradle, I've ungrateful My toy was a gun I got sprung and learn to love
But now I'm through money And through with fame Somebody my cap And put me in my
the cradle to the grave Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto From the cradle to the Life ain't never been easy, living in the
18th, that rainy day, my mama gave birth To a baby boy, trapped in hell on From day one it wasn't fun I had a crumb Daddy worked two and Mama won't stop drinkin' rum
I tried to cope loc but my broke And my pocket's short so now I gotta sling In a filled with pain, it's a fuckin' shame The white man got a mothafucka slingin'
So now on from dusk to dawn I get my serve on Always in the spot with my glock slingin' rocks at the The shit stop I'm steady dodgin' cops I flip flop, hear my glock cock thug till I drop
And if I hit the pen I gotta do my Sittin' on my reminiscing about the good times It's fucked up a nigga grow up doing dirt But from the to the grave I'ma put in work
From the cradle to the ain't never been easy, living in the ghetto From the to the grave Life ain't never easy, living in the ghetto
Time's movin' fast, will I another day? So I and I lay with my A-K Did I sell my soul as a young All the things I did wishin' held me But never did
I take 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 the way that Daddy raised me crazy
Do or die, nigga, pull the trigger give a fuck You'd rather be in jail get your ass bucked cares, it's me against the world Keepin' murder on my mind and my
I got nothin' to lose, payin' dues, nigga you die? I get high my mission is a walk-by You'd better jet when I hit your set I'm commin' Start runnin', yellin', "Evil mind", as I'm
One in the for the anger that I build inside For the mothers that cried, for my homies that The beginning is an ending, am I a slave So I got to be brave from the to the grave
the cradle to the grave Life never been easy, living in the ghetto the cradle to the grave Life ain't been easy, living in the ghetto