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See, I was out on these mean streets I'm from the projects, right, where and hell meet I'm searching everyday to find a better way, got a Hustle still to get my pay I hit bottom
Now might say that I'm already there but who are They to or question what I do? Son, so I don't care Tired of eating sandwiches with no meat Tired of watching all the from the same seat
So it's a life of crime, might sing or rhyme To escape the ghetto the flatline Choices to make, what am I do? Got to use my talents, they gonna pull me
Now with success, I become a target, they set me up I guess, money equals more problems They wanna get me, wanna hit me, me of my riches wanna cut me up in pieces, leave me deep in ditches
And I can't take it but I'm gonna it Yeah, oh, I'm make it Yeah, ohh, fight to alive
I was raised out on these mean You where poverty and hell meet Brothers get and life's for sale, cheap momma held me in her arms to tell me
That it's a world, I done held heat And held myself down, lotta bodies and found And niggas taking everything, that ain't nailed down We fell down, hard to tell now
I ain't trying to see the now Or see momma put her up for bail now So I'm a all I got, to try and get that gwop Nigga, I'm hot this hustle
Go and get the cops I use my talent to get figures Unlike these little store niggas Go change drawers, niggas
Now success and I've become a target They wanna set me up, take me Or take me down notches They wanna hit me, wanna me, get me for my riches They wanna diss me, want a me, leave me stiff in ditches
And I can't take it, no, no but I'm gonna it. (This ain't no game, my ain't nothing to play with) Yeah, I'm gonna it, ooh (Face it, money is and I'm a make it) I'm make it, ooh
Yeah, I'm survive, yo, yo, aiyo N.Y. City, blocks, little love, plenty cops Few rise, many drop, True Lies, semis Fish scale, rocked, heavy shots, that we drop New guys on every block, blue and red dots
mothers, broke fathers, more money, more problems So hungry, won't starve 'em, work and so pardon I got mouths to feed, I got of weed I need some more, store, another house, indeed An X amount of G, the pounds'll squeeze
And strip you naked, basic, trying to it out the P's Don't ever a G, and have me spaz like Face with the K and my nose all It about the streets, it's 'bout the beast within That won't give in to 'lice, to bleed, G
Now with and I've become a target They set me up, take me hostage Or take me down some wanna hit me, wanna stick me, get me for my riches They wanna diss me, wanna clip me leave me in ditches
And I can't it (Yeah) No, no, but I'm gonna it (Yeah, yeah, turn the beat up a little here) Yeah, I'm make it, ooh (Yo, yo, yo, yeah, yo, just, Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang)
Aiyo, RZA, Meth, GZA, Deck, Ghost and be cashing checks Killa, Cap be snapping necks, Street and flash the tech Sacrifice a savage if he trying to bag my ice Tag a price on merchandise, tell me, is it worth yo'
No, a cold, cold, cold world You can't be games with my life I've gotta fight to survive, fight to stay
Aiyo, metal pipes ignite, sparking fire, light the night Trying to stick me for my riches, now y'all bitches flight business, raise the digits, tried to strike me for my life Slice and dice, men or mice, GZA tell 'em what it's
Aiyo, making, people flaking, Cash Rules, fuck the bacon Earthquaking, head is aching, stop, dice shaking Times are hard, sew a job, scheming wanna rob Use a hoe to slob ya knob, hit you with unruly
Stab you in the back and smile, you bleed for a while on the agile, steal ya name and bite ya style Hold you for a ransom note, Goliath cutting throat Grab yo' vest, abandon and leave you out at sea to float
Now with success and I've a target wanna set me up I guess, more money equals more They hit me, wanna stick me, get me for my riches They wanna diss me, want me, leave me stiff in ditches
And I take it, no, no but I'm gonna make it Yeah, oh, I'm gonna make it, ooh, a cold, cold, cold world I got my hand on my gun, they got a on the run
Yeah, it's a cold, cold, cold You be playing games with my life gotta fight to survive, fight to stay alive This a game, this is my life
pushing me to the edge, I'm gonna push back And you won't like that, it's guaranteed you won't that When ya laid down, flat