[00:00.031]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[00:04.493](Ladies, I got something on my mind)
[00:06.728]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[00:09.187](Ooh, let me take a second)
[00:13.594]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[00:18.393](Raise your hand if you feel me)
[00:20.886]I'm always staying up late
[00:23.028]Wondering if you're coming home, okay
[00:27.387]I know you gotta make ends meet
[00:29.652]That why you're out there on the streets
[00:33.723]See I understand the game
[00:36.253]But I know there might just come a day
[00:40.564]When your sister or your mama calls
[00:43.087]And tells me that you've been taken away
[00:46.716]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[00:50.507](Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, yea)
[00:53.550]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[00:57.063](Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, yea, yea)
[01:00.138]Sometimes I hate being part of this ghetto love (Oh, no)
[01:06.446]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[01:10.796](Be quiet, na, na, na, na)
[01:13.815]I understand that you're concerned about me
[01:16.846]Don't me you go putting our business in the streets
[01:20.163]Girl, you know we go these…
[01:23.709]So instead of singing songs
[01:24.983]let's talk about it later
[01:27.092]I had a job that I really didn't wanna quit
[01:30.386]I just got tired of taking all of the bullshh
[01:33.692]See I been working at Mickie D's about 4 years now
[01:36.968]And I just think it's time to get up off these burgers now
[01:40.497]Took a lot for us to get out in these suburbs
[01:43.777]Took a lot for me to buy you all these nice furs
[01:47.048]We'll go to church and pray about it and I promise that
[01:50.323]But girl, bare with me to l open up this Laundromat
[01:53.608]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[01:56.869](See a man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do)
[01:59.942]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[02:03.010](Baby, the streets have nothing to do with me and you)
[02:06.726]Sometimes I hate being part of this ghetto love
[02:10.270](Now I know I'm not perfect, babe)
[02:13.385]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[02:17.174](One thing I know that is that I love you, baby)
[02:21.251]Now we gotta run and hide, you're my man
[02:23.888]So I'm stayin' by your side
[02:25.965](That's what I'm talking 'bout, baby)
[02:27.010]Mama, we gonna move down south, when this heat cools down
[02:31.234]We'll be alright
[02:32.755](I think that would be best)
[02:34.012]He's gotta few peeps down there
[02:36.523]With some cash and a place to lay our heads
[02:39.044](And I could trust them, baby)
[02:40.765]I guess he didn't know them that well
[02:43.024]'Cause we're locked up, they all turned out to be fake
[02:46.539]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[02:50.053](Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes)
[02:53.324]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[02:56.918]…
[02:59.850]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[03:02.443](Sometimes sometimes I hate it)
[03:06.606]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[03:10.634]Sometimes I hate it
[03:13.428]Sometimes I hate it
[03:14.694](But I'm gon' stand by you)
[03:16.481]Sometimes I hate it
[03:17.985](No matter what we go through)
[03:19.501]Sometimes I hate it
[03:21.319](Through thick and thin)
[03:22.813]Sometimes I hate it
[03:23.775](You're my love)
[03:26.110]Sometimes I hate it
[03:27.923](See they can lock me up)
[03:29.705]Sometimes I hate it
[03:31.225](Throw away the key)
[03:32.770]Sometimes I hate it
[03:34.528](Just as long as you)
[03:36.375]Sometimes I hate it
[03:37.882](You're here with me)
[03:39.916]Sometimes I hate being in love with a thug
[03:46.212]But I love you my baby, so come here and give me a hug