You know, I wonder if they'll laugh when I am dead

Why am I fighting to live, if I'm just living to fight

Why am I trying to see, when there aint nothing inside

Why I am I trying to give, when no one gives me a try

Why am I dying to live, if I'm just living to die



[Notorious B.I.G.]

Check it, I grew up a fuckin screw up

Got introduced to the game, got a ounce and fuckin blew up

Choppin rocks overnight

The nigga Biggie Smalls tryin ta turn into the black Frank White

We had to grow dreads to change our description

Tupac on the milk box missin

Show they toes you know they got stepped on

A fist full of bullets a chest full of Teflon

Run from the police picture that, nigga I'm too fat

I fuck around and catch a asthma attack

That's why I bust back, it don't phase me

When he drop, take his glock, and I'm Swayze

Summer break, my escape, sold the glock, bought some weight

Laid back, I got some money to make, motherfucker



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[2Pac]

And still I'm havin memories of high speeds, when the cops crashed

As I laugh pushin the gas when my glocks blast

We was young, and we was dumb but we had heart

In the dark when we survived through the bad parts

Many dreams is what I had, and many wishes

No hesitation in extermination of these snitches

And these bitches they still continue to per sue me

A couple of movies now the whole world tryin to screw me

even the cops tried to sue me

So what can I do but stay true, sippin 22's a brewin

now the medias tryin to test me got the press askin questions, tryin to stress me

misery is all I see, thats my mind's state

My history with the police is shakin' the crime rate

Ma main man had 2 stikes, slipped, got arrested and flipped

He screamed 'Thug Life!' and emptied a clip

gots tired of runnin from the motherfuckin police



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