[00:02.31]Yo, this for all the thugs out there
[00:06.16]Hustlin, strugglin
[00:08.96]Even with them 9 to 5
[00:10.95]I gotta let you know that
[00:13.63]Somebody loves you baby
[00:17.69]I know I love mine
[00:20.27]I think back to shit that happened
[00:24.06]Now when we first met, my people really wasn't
[00:27.26]Down for seeing me with a nigga who was thuggin
[00:30.19]They told me you was trouble and wouldn't amount to shit
[00:33.18]They said you'd hold me back
[00:34.87]And give me plenty kids
[00:36.15]They didn't even want to try and get to know you better
[00:39.18]My dad was like hell no
[00:40.70]And moms was like whatever
[00:42.12]But never in my life have I felt this way
[00:45.01]And I know that this is right no matter what they say
[00:47.84]Even though you on the grime
[00:49.92]Tryin to turn a dime into a dollar
[00:51.80]You never to busy to holler
[00:53.87]Askin bout my day my needs my feelings
[00:57.02]Man enough to tell me what we got is realing
[01:00.12]Toughing up my game, preparing me for these streets
[01:03.09]Cause every brother don't treat every sister like a queen
[01:05.93]You visualize my dreams and speak from your heart
[01:08.97]Much love to my thug
[01:10.50]Boo I hope we never part
[01:12.07]Lets make it last forever
[01:13.33]Through thick and thin and up and down
[01:16.42]You have shown me love
[01:24.97]So I'm gone be right by your side
[01:28.29]Got much love for my thug
[01:36.16]I remember when we got our very first little place
[01:39.19]Not much furniture, but still we had each other
[01:42.18]It was dead smack in the middle of the hood
[01:45.22]But it was all good
[01:46.68]Cause we be livin large once we could
[01:49.31]But for now we was barely seeing pennies
[01:51.21]I was waitin tables
[01:52.83]And you was on the corner wild with them 20's
[01:55.47]The land of plenty seemed so far away
[01:57.72]But your bus rides and flights
[01:59.43]Put it closer in eyesight
[02:01.16]Long nights of cookin, cuttin and baggin
[02:04.60]Kept your nerves bad and your eyes red and saggin
[02:07.60]Staggerin in the door drunk
[02:09.97]Pushin my accusations about them hoes
[02:11.99]Time to flaunt
[02:13.06]I was sure you was messing around
[02:14.88]We start to fight
[02:15.85]Even though I was wrong
[02:17.22]You loved it when I stood my ground strong
[02:18.89]That's why you kept me on your arm on your way up
[02:21.92]My thug had me tight in his corner I got much love
[02:25.13]Through thick and thin and up and down
[02:27.68]You have shown me love
[02:36.64]So I'm gone be right by your side
[02:39.87]Got much love for my thug
[02:49.11]Now, here we are plush cribs and cars
[02:51.86]You hold the title of the newest ghetto star
[02:54.39]You gotta watch you back
[02:55.86]Cause them niggas out to jack
[02:57.28]And you gotta guard my tracks
[02:58.96]Cause them niggas kidnap
[03:00.23]You even made me pack a baby nine in my purse
[03:03.27]Took me to the shootin range
[03:04.80]How to aim and where to hurt
[03:06.21]Make they families feel the worse
[03:07.67]Cause loosing me your biggest fears
[03:09.76]You said you wasn't even trying to shed those tears
[03:12.65]So now I here that your having your flings
[03:15.21]I just laugh cause them broads will never wear my rings
[03:18.19]Have my things and
[03:19.76]Most of all have your heart
[03:21.38]We got the strongest ghetto love that will never part
[03:25.13]So, when you fell I stood by your side
[03:27.92]Took a stand in line
[03:29.29]Never let them break me
[03:30.81]Though they tried
[03:31.73]Cause through it all I'll be by you thug
[03:33.90]Real for you thug
[03:35.54]Even kill for you thug,Much love
[03:37.66]Through thick and thin and up and down
[03:40.05]You have shown me love
[03:49.01]So I'm gone be right by your side
[03:52.01]Got much love for my thug