Hi Life We livin' that hi life 
Hi Life (Hi Life...mmmmmmmmmm) 
We livin' that hi life...mmmmmmmmmmm [Pimp C:] 
I'm tired livin' ****** up, tired of livin' bad 
Tired of hearing grandma tellin' me 
When you gonna go to church 
Chad Now I'm tryin' to live up to the image 
That she would want me to be 
But I got one foot in the street 
And every week 
I flip a Ki 
I never wanted to be a 
G But *************s depend on me 
It ain't safe to hit 
I-10 So *************s fear with me 
And all the *************s that 
I went to school wit 
Got cool wit, went to fool wit 
I dealt selling that white *************t 
Pu*************n' *******, *************s holding pistols 
Dependant on the game 
What ya want me to do, its like somebody cut my throat 
Got $20,000, tryin' to turn it to a hundred 
And ain't nobody got no dough 
So *************s came to smoke, bad habits do exist 
And if this ************* came thinking to ease my mind 
By sucking my ************* 
************* make up for a minute cause that *************p never lasts 
In 1996 *************s is dyin' from layin' on that ass 
First Magic 
Johnson got it, then 
Eazy-E died 
And you wonder why yo' *************s out there smokin' fry 
I wish that 
I could tell you 
I wore a rubber everytime 
But if I told you that ************* you know that 
I be lyin' 
And I've been ******g ************* since the tender age of nine 
It's gettin' to be a full-time job just tryin' to stay alive 
And Crackers tend to smirk, offended by the ******* smoke comin' off my *************rt 
But still 
I puts in work and front for my folks 
Cause where 
I come from *************, family just ain't no joke 
Now D be gettin' married, and 
Edgar on the boat 
But what about 
Baby Doe, some say that *************'s selling **** 
And you know that 
I ain't lyin', that just how family talk 
But what you gonna do when the 
Devil poke you with his fork 
And everybody sittin' in the pulpit ain't saved 
Most preachers are false prophets 
******' hoes and gettin' paid 
I'm lookin' for the... [Chorus] [Bun B:] 
You only got one life to live 
That's all they give you to do it 
You could bull*************t your way through it 
Or stay true, it can be complicated cause *************s 
Be gettin' shot in the cross 
People and names get lost 
The people in the lane get tossed 
The streets'll eat your ass alive 
Take your positions with pistols, bare hands, and knives 
And nobody's surprised if somebody 
Don't survive the dusk to see dawn 
It's treacherous how we was left to die 
On the streets that we be on 
Mother*******s sleepin' on them corners that you pee on 
Probably cause society felt they didn't belong 
Now who in the ************* made it this way for us 
Got all these little *************s slangin' that yay 
Because it ain't like they make high levels gainable 
And that punk piece of 
American pie just ain't obtainable 
So how can 
I substain a full life before death 
Man, I'm left out here to make it by my goddamn self 
Now c'mon, who gives a damn when you can't afford the turkey or ham 
Livin' off of 
Raemon Noodles, beef jerky, and 
Spam Now that's sad, but that's a fact of life 
All I can see in front of me is up for grabs 
Come off that slab 
Cause poverty will push a ************* over that brink 
Over the edge especially if you don't know your ledge 
So instead of being without, 
I'm hustling 
Tryin' to get through these ungodly days 
Thinkin' of ways to get the ************* outta this maze 
A man will committ a crime 'cause a ******' crime pays 
I'm going through a phase you don't grow out 
Until there's a reason a mother *******s gots to pour out 
His 40 on the curb, disturbed and left with no doubt in his mind 
But still sometimes he don't know why 
He walkin' around just hopin' 
He can get one more try to make it 
It's bull*************t he going through, but yo, he gots to take it 
You can't fake it, to get that hi life [Chorus: until the end]