[EDI - Uh, time came, maintain This for all them niggaz in the game, you hustlin, street life Gettin that money, gotta maintain, you know? Holla! (yeah)
- Verse 1] The streets is a mother fucker, and I done it before Drive-bys, crack heads knockin at your front All them race for the at the end of the road by my waist, I'm bout to explode I'm on a for the money, ain't shit funny Put a hole in your tummy, leave you smellin like a You the game that the streets don't like And fuckin with the Outlawz will get you tonight I guzzle my pipe and think the shit I ain't never had (uh-huh) write my frustrations on my notepad And ain't nothin but a toe-tag When I was three years old, I known that
[Supreme C - 2] And yo the got a nigga fucked up I know who to trust, but I know just who to bust (bow) Change your main form to to dust Minds stay corrupt, I'm a in the cut I crush any competitor, writin back his Leave your body leakin, Supreme C speakin Pledge you then a edge you on, yo you just a You're with the big boys, one move you're gone I'm when my rap over-doses Label me ferocious on 'Wanted' signs See me on the screen blood on murder scenes Midnight screams, sharp-shooter The williest, silliest, but yet I'm dead me with a passion up in the club mashin Foul minds, I'm in ears like a loud nine Holdin off screamin, yeah niggaz about time It's on again, got a brother born again I swore to win then, naturally my in Recorded and stated, let the record I made it This dated when we blewin, and how you fuckers traded Outlawz!
[Chorus - & EDI] Gettin money it ain't no tellin man (ain't no tellin) You and strugglin and niggaz say you changed (huh) One time, knockin they hotter change (with change) They eyes was watchin, but still we (maintain) Your baby momma gone say she want some change (ain't a bitch) Niggaz used to know, since you game (oh) Fuckin with that money now your brain You the game and yo we maintain!
[Young Noble - 3] And you ain't never had a that'll die for you And you never had a nigga that'll cry for you And you ain't never had a nigga that'll pay your And you ain't never know niggaz was truly legit And you ain't never had soldiers that'll you down And you ain't never know that loan you pounds And you ain't never had bitches that'll fuck the Better yet, have bitches that'll your man And you ain't never had to floss the week You couldn't down the way nor walk the beat And you ain't never had a clique that was thorough and And you ain't never know Yak and Pac so it up!
- Verse 4] I love bitches and all types of cars (hahaha...me too) Loud guns, money-runs, and strip bars We the sun turn to stars, back to sun again I put a box under rocks to dump a in And I in sin, couldn't pretend it's all well My world is a jail cell, I can't to find bail We gas up, trouble, in my belly (uh) body knew it but ain't nobody try to tell me We maintain!
[Mil - 5] I'm a hell-raisin and I'll burn the place up (Mil) The streets me, look at me now and I'm straighten up When I rolled on your block, all I see is pump When you roll my hood, niggaz'll fuck you up You're weak, won't long, niggaz rely on luck Speak it cheap-goin nigga, I got the heart of a your pillow like a puddle of a blood And I'm gonna show you how it is to stomp and never love at all
[EDI - 6] Every day I'm stuck in this game so I got to it I made up my bed so I got to lay in it There's one way out, limo, window tinted My momma daily for my spirit Fuck that! I'm here to stay nigga with it And I'm one of the real niggaz actually real with it Meals, I'm gonna get it, but about what happens when I get it Will these niggaz come for my trinkets? Think it's a joke? Part it out I kick it and smoke We on the ropes, triple-beam hopes schemes broke, two minutes to go alone Fall or up, fuck it, stack ones up I my guns up, for these killers My eyes on these And when it's me and the law, I'm the first to draw Maintain, till the end of the Maintain, till the end of the game, you hear me
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[Kastro - talking over chorus] that! Fuck that! Fuck you too baby! Fuck all y'all I'm on some shit All my money niggaz maintain Most of the time, niggaz get money and only for like a year I'm tryin to have money for twenty years, thirty years, forty called a general, It's easy to get money in your nigga, but can you keep it? Can you