[00:00.89]It Ain't Easy
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[00:03.59]Keepin it real
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[00:20.59]I take a shot of Henessey now I'm strong enough to face the madness
[00:23.80]Nickel bag full of sess weed laced with hash
[00:26.31]Phone calls from my niggaz on the, other side
[00:28.85]Two childhood friends just died, I couldn't cry
[00:32.04]A damn shame, when will we ever change
[00:34.65]And what remains from a twelve gauge to the brain
[00:37.35]Arguements with my Boo is true
[00:39.38]I spend mo' time with my niggaz than I do with you
[00:42.16]But everywhere it's the same thang, that's the game
[00:44.90]I'll be damned if a thang changed, fuck the fame
[00:47.60]I'll be hustling to make a mill-ion, lord knows
[00:50.22]Ain't no love for us ghetto children, so we cold
[00:52.99]Rag top slowin down, time to stop for gas
[00:55.60]Beep my horn for a hoochie with a proper ass, uhh
[00:58.23]It ain't easy, that's my motto
[01:01.09]Drinkin Tanqueray straight out the bottle
[01:03.10]Everybody wanna know if I'm insane
[01:05.23]My baby mama gotta mind full of silly games
[01:08.01]And all the drama got me stressin like I'm hopeless, I can't cope
[01:11.18]Me and the homies smokin roaches, cause we broke
[01:14.19]Late night hangin out til the sunrise gettin high
[01:17.07]Watchin the cops roll by
[01:19.44]It ain't easy... that's right
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[01:24.89]It ain't easy, being me
[01:27.44]Will I see the penitentiary, or will I stay free
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[01:40.74]I can't sleep niggaz plottin on to kill me while I'm dreamin
[01:43.35]Wake up sweaty and screamin, cause I can hear them suckers schemin
[01:46.15]Probably paranoid, problem is, them punks be fantasizin
[01:48.88]A brother bite the bullet, open fire and I died
[01:51.26]I wonder why this the way it is, even now
[01:53.83]Lookin out for these killer kids, cause they wild
[01:56.60]Bill Clinton can you recognize a nigga representin
[01:59.24]Doin twenty to life in San Quentin
[02:01.42]Gettin calls from my nigga Mike Tyson, ain't nuttin nice
[02:04.63]Yo 'Pac, do something righteous witcha life
[02:06.75]And even thou you innocent you still a nigga, so they figure
[02:09.72]Rather have you behind bars than triggers
[02:12.09]But I'm hold ya down and holla Thug Life, lickin shots
[02:15.08]Til I see my niggaz free on the block
[02:17.33]But no it ain't easy, hahahah
[02:20.71]Til I see my niggaz free, on the block, oh
[02:22.92]It ain't easy
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[02:43.38]Lately been reminiscin
[02:44.80]bout Peppermint Schnapps in Junior High hit the block
[02:46.94]Keep an eye on the cops while D-Boys slang rocks
[02:49.59]It's the project kid without a conscience, I'm havin dreams
[02:52.48]of hearin screams at my concerts, me all my childhood peers
[02:56.17]through the years tryin to stack a little green
[02:58.24]I was only seventeen, when I started servin fiends
[03:00.72]And I wish there was another way to stack a dollar
[03:03.24]So my apoli', casue these hard times make me wanna holler
[03:06.09]Will I live to see tommorrow, am I fallin off?
[03:08.49]I hit the weed and then proceed to say fuck all of y'all
[03:11.00]Ain't nobody down with me I'm thuggin, I can't go home
[03:13.72]Cause muh-fuckers think I'm buggin, so now I'm in
[03:16.33]this high powered cell at the county jail
[03:18.56]Punk judge got a grudge, can't post no bail, what
[03:21.59]do I do in these county blues
[03:23.85]Gettin battered and bruised by the you know who
[03:26.53]And these fakes get to shakin when they face me
[03:29.16]Snakes ain't got enough nuts to replace me
[03:33.07]Sittin in this, livin hell, listenin to niggaz yell
[03:35.16]Tryin to torture em to tell, I'm gettin mail
[03:37.54]But ain't nobody sayin much, the same old nuts
[03:40.34]is makin bucks while these sluts is gettin fucked
[03:42.75]They violated my probation, and it seems
[03:45.43]I'll be goin on a long vacation, meanwhile
[03:49.03]It ain't easy
[03:53.01]No it ain't easy
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