[Krayzie: - repeat 4X]
We hard time, hard time hustlin, hustlin
[Hook: Sade]
Mama been laid off
She ain't workin no mo'
Papa been laid off
He say things done got slow
My brother's been laid off
He been locked down for more than two years now
[Verse 1: Krayzie Bone]
My world is crumblin, time is hard they were before, but oh my god!
Mama mad at pops cause he ain't workin
But today she lost her job
Now what in the f** is we suppose to do?
We on our last loaf of bread
Got cereal, but no milk, Kool-Aid, no sugar, what the hell?
And here come Mr. Billcollector beatin down our door for dough
Mama say when they come knockin
Y'all don't say nothin (shhh) get on the floor
Kind of hard to see at night in a house when it ain't got no lights and sh**
No gas or water, had to borrow H2O from my relative
Man, it feels like I ain't even here
I'm ready to get up and get all my own, but I got three more f**in years
n***a 15, with a big dream to make it on out this ghetto
But the devil won't settle, f**in up my levels he won't let go
I'm livin to die it seems I just can't win
Now I'm high, but I'm stopin to realize I drunk this whole fifth of Gin
(n***a damn!) I'm 17 and drinkin like I'm grown up
I got some problems, plus I need some money
And it's really all because...
[Hook]
[Verse 2: Krayzie Bone]
Juvenile n***a done strugglin, hustlin, strugglin like I want it
Then f** school, right now I'm hungry, and I can't eat that damn diploma
But on this corner I can eat everyday, all I gotta do is slang this yay
n***a, If business keep going this way me and my family is fin to be straight
I'm glad I took that fifty dollars that grandma gave me
Bought me a double up, now it's all about comin up
I'mma pay ya back next week
Repeat, took my a** straight to the block with hand full of rocks, y'all
And it's my first time I'm lowin, watchin for cop cars
By the end of the night a n***a sold all the rocks
I'm trippin out lookin' at all the dough I got
I shoulda been came a sold the block and locked it
Made me some profits, so n***a tonight my people gonna be eatin on lobster
Hate to say it, but I think these streets done really created a monster
Cause now that I see how quick I can come about breakin the law
Why in the hell is you steady tellin me to go and get a job?
f** that, n***a this my thing right now I know
I'm walkin home happy, smilin, and I ain't even thinkin about...
[Hook]
[Verse 3: Krayzie Bone]
Business was boomin so a n***a a**uming I could do some improving
Like new j**els, clothes, shoes, Cadillac Coupe, I'm out here doin it
Got me a cold a** broad, and that's something I never had
But I'm never mad cause I done snagged one bad one with my young a**
Once I turned 18 it was on
But my brother started writing home, tellin me to leave this sh** alone
I say, what? n***a, he don't know that I'm too deep in this
I'm livin and breathin the street sh**
And if I don't play the crook, you ain't gonna have sh** on your books
Look, gimme a minute, I'll chill in a minute I promise I will
As soon as I finished this last load
I'mma drop the dice after this last roll
Little did he know, I got no intentions on leavin this sh** here
I'm finna get rich here
When you get out, you'll have some sh** here if you still care
Made enough money to move my moms and pops to a new pad
They was suspicious, but they ain't trippin
Cause this more sh** than we ever had
But sh** went bad six in the morning crashing through my door was the Feds
And they want that bread we want you, and I'm like ooh! (sh**)
Shoulda listened to my brother, huh?
But I'm like f** it now
Mama got to buggin out when them po po got to cuffin pops
Now I'm in the courtroom when that asked me how I plea
I tell the judge straight up, I've been havin problems and it's all because...
[Hook]