| [00:10.94] | I keep telling myself |
| [00:12.75] | Man I'm living the good life |
| [00:14.56] | I'm living the good life |
| [00:16.09] | |
| [00:20.34] | I'm on top of the world |
| [00:21.33] | |
| [00:23.32] | I'm on top of the world |
| [00:24.70] | |
| [00:32.50] | I was born into poverty raised I the sewerage |
| [00:34.93] | Streets always would be a part of me, it made me the truest |
| [00:37.36] | |
| [00:37.99] | And even when my days were the bluest |
| [00:40.05] | I never ran from adversity, instead I ran to it |
| [00:42.67] | Fear ain't in the heart of me I learned just do it |
| [00:45.29] | You get courage in your fears right after you go through it |
| [00:48.22] | Now I come through in a Coupe on 22s |
| [00:50.66] | That ain't bad for a nigga who ain't even finish school |
| [00:52.96] | |
| [00:53.53] | Don't get me wrong I never been a fool |
| [00:55.71] | I just put off graduating for a pair of tennis shoes |
| [00:58.52] | I used to use the beat to paint my pain |
| [01:01.01] | But nowadays man I can't complain |
| [01:03.45] | I got several automobiles and they all on thangs |
| [01:05.63] | Several size of tangent and they all in one chain |
| [01:09.06] | Used to see me in the mall I'm the same |
| [01:11.81] | And get a couple broads giving brain on the plane |
| [01:13.93] | |
| [01:36.60] | I come from Chi-Town lost and found in the struggle |
| [01:38.59] | Where dudes say stay safe and stay out of trouble |
| [01:40.47] | Speak is muffed the law and B gon try to cuff you |
| [01:43.41] | Those with duffles move weight and have muscles |
| [01:45.96] | I came through the dirt with a verse for the people |
| [01:48.77] | Open up for Daddy Kane and Easy up at the Regal |
| [01:51.39] | The radio rarely put their needle on my record |
| [01:53.32] | They ain't see how the hood and heaven were connected |
| [01:55.88] | Sounds projected, ain't show how effective |
| [01:58.37] | |
| [01:59.25] | Lessons learned, sessions turned to life reflected |
| [02:01.31] | And everything I found real in life know I kept it |
| [02:04.55] | They say life's a teacher, you're gonna get tested |
| [02:06.49] | When a nigga changed they keep saying that nigga strange |
| [02:09.61] | Couldn't see how my mind won't be the lame |
| [02:12.35] | Ahead of my time I caught up with the game |
| [02:14.97] | Making good music making paper making change |
| [02:16.67] | |
| [02:38.59] | I put on gasoline drawers I stood in the fire |
| [02:41.65] | With enough heat to set the hood on fire |
| [02:43.64] | |
| [02:44.33] | Man you niggaz think Suge was off the wire |
| [02:46.83] | You should've seen the squad before I had Messiah |
| [02:49.32] | We assumed the title as the number one supplier |
| [02:52.00] | Felt like I was selling blow since I was in diapers |
| [02:54.56] | |
| [02:55.12] | And wish a nigga would come try us |
| [02:57.12] | We was cool with the killers, best friends with the lifers |
| [03:00.12] | Quick to up and scrap with niggaz who want to deny |
| [03:02.92] | For what we considered then as a lucrative empire |
| [03:04.98] | But like that pimping time flash by you |
| [03:07.73] | Now I wonder what the judge think as he reading my priors |
| [03:10.91] | Prison ain't full and the reefer ain't bias |
| [03:13.03] | You ain't got to tell and distant the liars |
| [03:15.03] | Gave the jail hell and shot birds at the hearse |
| [03:18.40] | Lived through worse and reversed the curse |
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