Young fellas done locked the game
Some sellas done shot the 'caine
Nuff breddas just want the fame
Young fellas just want a name
Umbrellas can't stop the rain
When it pours hard
Truth in the booth
Might get a forecast
Some refuse to choose
And take the Lord's path
Shank marks, bullet wounds and war scars
Cats need to get focused like Ford cars
As I go down memory lane
Before Nas this was a state of mind
Only a daily grind doing crazy crime
In front of the judge facing time
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Mindless fools wanna shine and rule
In diamond j**els
Lukewarm cats think life is cool
Comedians act like life is funny
Like the meat they're in a black cab
Time is money
Life is gully
You got the feeling that Pac had
You got to watch out for people that backstab
They got a knife in your spine
True signs of the time
You know your friends when your life's on a line
You know the usual drama
Got your mum looking for a tombstone
In the funeral parlor
Now you up in a hurse and boxed in a coffin
Now they shovelin' dirt on top of your coffin
Here today gone tomorrow like UGK
To the Father we truly pray
We honour Him right
To the end I'm following Christ
He's the reason I'm breathing
Thank God I'm alive
Through the struggle and the trouble I gotta survive
Listen, wisdom is knowledge applied