Chorus)(3X)

Mama always told me (told me)

but papa never showed me (showed me)

So i live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs

Mama always told me it'd happen

but she never told me when

she said probably happen when I get much older

but I kinda wish it would of happened then

cuz I had my mind on gettin' some money

nigga I'm tryin' get rich

mom told me never trust these niggas

and ummm never put your faith in the bitch

see I hang with a bunch of grave yard villians

nigga robbin' sprees we stealin'

choppin' keys with drug dealers

click like pistol with killers

they tried to preech to me, couldn't preech to me

tried to teach me, couldn't teach me

see I've gotta learn the hard way on my own

cuz nobody else could give me a reason

they always told me I'll probably end up dead

or in the pen see me and P some outcasts

can't arrest the family tellin' the kids not to be like him

and see it was ruff some times but it had to be

enough trippin' on Cess go hand your back and pass the weed

I ran wild deep in the game off of change

nigga bitch won't fuck 'em nigga won't kill me

but its all in the game

see pop was too busy doin' his own thing to try to show me

but mom told me Silkk watch your paper

at the top it gets lonely, mama told me

(Chorus)(2X)

Mama always told me (told me)

but papa never showed me (showed me)

So i live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs

token guns on my side, no limit niggas gone ride

paper chasin' for millions Tru niggas won't die

make time for some dope nigga fuck bein' broke

I live my life on the ropes nigga fuck the P.O.

I leave you dead with the bustas

real niggas gone love us

we make crack with the killers and sell dope to the country

nigga nigga outlaws and dealers tattoo and killers

niggas bout it with millions now the world gone feel this

I'm staying TRU to the game you bitches callin' my name

mama told me to change its ghetto blood in my vein

see I got love for thugs never mix sex with drugs

my enemy in blood when I come bury me a thug

henessy and weed be a ball with desert

these shirts and kakis is how we work

hypnotized by change after fortune and fame

I roll 20's and thangs rolex and change but uh..

(Chorus)(2X)

Mama always told me (told me)

but papa never showed me (showed me)

So I live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs

right from the edge killer nigga gone off coke

brown sticky dope makin' niggas turn on their folks

ain't now rules, fools rush in but don't come out

so many niggas round my way die runnin' their mouth

fairy tales are for children we ain't story book livin'

south streets be bloody from all the shootin' and killin'

villians ride for similac and crack and smack

and its a fact all killers ain't inner city blacks

my homies have to serve on blocks that's hot with cops

with rocks and stacks and be packed to get their scraps

I don't knock it cuz if my pocket starts to lose weight

you can find me on I-10 tryin' move weight

my mama on her knees prayin' givin' god her time

while I'm on the streets hustlin' tryin' gettin' what's mine

am I wrong am I right got can only determine

I can only live my life and life is for learnin' check it

(Chorus)(4X)

Mama always told me (told me)

but papa never showed me (showed me)

So i live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs