[00:02.87]The hammer hit the table leaving me with 7 years
[00:05.80]My history was shit so I could'nt shed a tear
[00:09.07]My future was a wall, surrounded by a cage
[00:12.39]Them laws got me locked down damn at an early age
[00:16.16]The only thing I got is a lust for the streets, the shit I gotta learn
[00:19.83]And the shit I gotta teach
[00:22.50]I'm living for the minute, muthafuck a whole hour
[00:25.82]And I ain't pickin shit up when It falls in the shower
[00:29.11]My lady sends me pictures with her pussy in the air
[00:32.39]But she ain't really there
[00:33.90]So I don't really care
[00:35.78]The only thing I got is a muthafuckin dinner
[00:39.11]So fuck what I had, cuz where I'm at I'm a beginner
[00:42.42]I gots to be a winner in this muthafuckin mix up
[00:45.79]Get my shit together, scope it out and try to fix up
[00:49.08]Some confidence to keep a real nigga going strong
[00:52.34]The system is my house, the system is my home
[00:55.75]The system was designed to keep a brotha on his back
[00:58.97]The system crackers caught me that's exactly where I'm at
[01:02.30]My lawyer was a snitch, got me framed started buggin
[01:05.72]My muthafuckin phone and the judge was his cousin
[01:09.00]It's hard thinkin positive with negative around me
[01:12.33]So I had to relate to the grounds that surrounded thee
[01:16.04]House and The Mound where I chill
[01:18.35]With the niggas who respected a real nigga
[01:20.72]Cuz MJG respect them too
[01:22.90]So I had to survive living my life with the street rule "stay cool"
[01:25.68]Disregard school and make my money fool, check it
[01:29.91]It's hard to understand where I'm comin from if you on the outside talkin shit
[01:34.42]Lookin in, then again if you was on the inside lookin out, 9 times outta 10
[01:41.28]You would probably be my friend
[01:42.72]Nigga how you figure, the system's gonna help ya
[01:45.67]The ghetto's where they put ya, the ghetto's where they kept ya
[01:49.09]See deep down in my heart I had this urge to go astray
[01:52.29]And knock out all my problems in one ordinary day
[01:55.54]The system got me thinkin cuz I'm locked down in a tank
[01:58.86]They saw a brotha strokin, so they had to make his ship sank
[02:02.26]So I can't get mixed up with them devils or no other
[02:05.60]With Ani.....mosity I hate when It's a brother, none other
[02:09.01]Than a buck, duck, hoodle up, shootin up thangs in the wind
[02:14.18]I'm in the Pen, you outside lookin in
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