[00:07.96]Born with the struggle used to hustle for crumbs
[00:09.89]Fillin blunts in the building front thuggin for ones
[00:11.76]Full-clips fly nicks dimes suckin the pump
[00:13.33]Whole cliques fly whips dimes nothing to son
[00:16.03]City boy on the corner I was so involved
[00:18.36]So the drama I embraced it would open arms
[00:25.19]Tryna shake the pain hoping I could break the chains
[00:27.95]Everyday the same - who am I to make it change
[00:31.13]Real my niggas risk it all just to play the game
[00:34.13]And the young'uns going through it trying to play the same
[00:37.00]Through the rain through the fire handcuffed by desire
[00:40.04]Cynthia's son forgive me for all the sins that I've done
[00:42.67]My life my pain lasts forever
[00:49.73]Nothing in these streets makes it better
[00:56.09]My life my pain lasts forever
[01:01.85]Nothing in these streets makes it better
[01:06.36]So I live on
[01:07.88]Got a lot on my mind
[01:09.69]As my life's shrinking and I'm caught in the times
[01:12.12]It's a quarter to nine and I'm grabbing my nine
[01:14.80]I had dreams I just wanted to rhyme
[01:18.78]Climb my ways out this wack-a** ghetto
[01:21.40]I signed my name on the line with the Devil
[01:25.29]Still in my prime to settle
[01:27.87]Pots on the stove old grandma's kettle
[01:30.19]Late for my job -"he thinks he's a star"
[01:34.75]She hates her husband he says I'm a slob
[01:37.50]Mixed feelings she ain't getting involved
[01:39.93]Battle of the sexes the planet off its axis
[01:42.92]The IRS god damn I owe these taxes
[01:45.80]The true verse but I can take it
[01:49.73]It's a long time coming but I can make it
[01:52.66]No mistaking the CREAM is back
[01:55.95]My life my pain lasts forever
[02:01.10]Nothing in these streets makes it better
[02:08.29]My life my pain lasts forever
[02:13.85]Nothing in these streets makes it better
[02:18.53]So I live on
[02:22.56]I got my niggas true niggas real niggas
[02:32.04]Stop the wheel really
[02:33.63]You only feel me if you want the same ho
[02:36.32]Talk the same codes
[02:37.51]Still dwelling in the Hell and find the time to make a home
[02:40.69]The few who escape tryna find a safer zone
[02:43.19]I ain't waiting for Obama never doubted him
[02:45.30]I'm proud of him He real spend a couple million on the housing and
[02:50.18]Seeing is believing my vision is blurred
[02:52.23]Cause I ain't seen nothing I heard
[02:54.23]Really ain't nothing but words divine my mind
[02:56.47]I'm still stuck to the curb
[02:58.16]Sky high but it wasn't the shurm
[03:00.22]Really nothing but herbs - I risk it all for the cause
[03:04.69]Even if it's war with the law
[03:06.45]I can't/won't/don't stop I ain't got an off switch
[03:10.38]Dying trying to live it just to get a small part of it
[03:14.18]My squad is sick type that you don't want problems with
[03:16.98]Rolling like 70 Mack trucks - what's stopping it