i've been so many places
so many unfamiliar faces
ohhh i pray every day
to keep from goin crazy
well what do ya know? we still here
but we still strugglin tryin to come up on that almighty dollar
do the damn thang and i've got to maintain
try not to go insane
every day
i'm facin compilations
motions i've been in the gauge
temptations of the faith
snake in the grass
i'm keepin my eye on y'all
won't let nobody hold me back
i never did figure that in my life that it could be this real
never did figure that bein a rapper would be so hard
oh god
but now that i'm seein the light
as soon as i open my eyes for the first time i realize i gotta die
and life don't last forever
and fast livin make you crazy if you
suck up too much
trust me
i done seen enough
done hustled all through this world
i'm really not doin it for fun
don't worry about me {?} a hand i see
i take it and run
and maybe we can chill out
hit a couple of yo' spots
have some we can pass out
if not
bye-bye
cause i got another show
some {?} up for dough
need to borrow my thugs
some {?} and then we blow
and then it's on the next cd
thugs get it all then it's easy
one of you got it then i know you feel me
that's why you gotta get your hustle
on
everybody get the money
yeah
got the money
reach for thousands
mmm
got them thousands
reach for millions
y'know
now i done traveled around the globe
witnessed some things that i wouldn'ta seen
me and my team chasin green
runnin this earth
tryin to live our dream
what i've seen would make the average person
run
quit and hide
and you know i'm down for the ride
i had to choke it and swallow my pride
i hate to admit it but dawg i love my material thangs was what i was after
who woulda thought about bein a rapper? all of the coaches i captured
i got
caught in the rapture
assumed it was written
keepin women
poverty stricken
it seems like the whole world's takin a strippin
i don't know why
and i don't know what it is
all the crazy thangs i done did brought me closer to my kids
no more bailin by my lonely
that story but i'm thorough
me and my dogs runnin this planet
it's just us against the world
c'mon
you niggaz don't really know me
not one of my homies wanna control me
control these nuts
i'm goin home
come and hold me
you get one of the twins to come and fold me
hallelujah! only one
sacred and holy
phony love
how they givin it only
one of them choked
thick black billie clubs with lapd whuppin on me
yo' bitch was strippin down in san diego
she only in it for the money
but we all in it for somethin though
and she really loved tony
some thick-dicked yellow nigga
he lived in the basement and he sell weed to the drug dealers
been around the hood and now you're motherfuckin eyed
rather die than to be caught up in deception and lies
word to the wise