[00:09.51]In these streets where we from
[00:13.02]
[00:14.61]We all caught in the game
[00:16.05]Tryna pull our life out of the drain
[00:17.88]If you don't make it you the one to blame
[00:19.89]In this life that we live
[00:23.40]
[00:24.90]We only tryna survive
[00:26.25]It's hard with the blind leading the blind
[00:28.38]Everybody here stuck in the grind
[00:30.51]They said
[00:30.99]I was crazy n***a sick in the head
[00:33.69]Who raised me
[00:34.47]My mother was sick in the bed
[00:36.00]How could you blame me
[00:37.20]On the block gettin' that bread
[00:38.52]They couldn't change me too hot dippin' them feds
[00:41.19]I made a promise not to go back to jail
[00:43.80]Under my garments gun tuck packin' that steel
[00:46.53]But regardless this n***a here is out of the field
[00:49.11]Now my partners is only money that's real
[00:51.57]I got my mind made up my shine ain't up
[00:54.42]Until I'm in that casket my time ain't up
[00:56.94]Tell you bout my lifestyle
[00:58.26]I'll walk you through
[00:59.61]First mix the
[01:00.48]Louie wit the
[01:01.05]Johnnie Walker blue
[01:02.31]Now peep the hooptie
[01:03.48]I'm followed by my crew
[01:04.86]Hundred thou' in jewelry when the
[01:06.27]God come through
[01:07.14]
[01:07.65]I kept it thorough with my ear to the streets
[01:09.72]Now we gettin' cash money without the gold teeth
[01:12.12]In these streets where we from
[01:15.12]
[01:16.65]We all caught in the game
[01:18.18]Tryna pull our life out of the drain
[01:20.04]If you don't make it you the one to blame
[01:22.02]In this life that we live
[01:25.44]
[01:27.03]We only tryna survive
[01:28.41]It's hard with the blind leading the blind
[01:30.54]Everybody here stuck in the grind
[01:32.28]
[01:33.03]I done seen pain felt pain and lived pain n***a
[01:36.15]Half my life in these streets down the drain
[01:38.52]Analyze the game through the eyes of my father
[01:41.19]Had to feel my way through with the revolver
[01:43.83]That goes to tell you he ain't show me nothin'
[01:45.72]
[01:46.23]Mad at the world when they ain't owe me nothin'
[01:48.60]So I apply pressure why not for more measure
[01:51.36]And more cake we turn hoods to whole states
[01:53.79]For my real n***az dressed in greens is upstate
[01:56.70]Trapped in that cold cell with no bail
[01:59.34]We ain't mean to hurt nobody to get them dollars up
[02:01.95]Half my n***az goin' dead'll push ya flowers up
[02:04.38]I'm fresh out the county with no shoe laces
[02:07.02]They thought they could stop us with probation
[02:09.66]We just live on the run and switch up locations
[02:12.27]Play the future by the air until it's time to face it
[02:14.28]In these streets where we from
[02:17.37]
[02:18.81]We all caught in the game
[02:20.34]Tryna pull our life out of the drain
[02:22.20]If you don't make it you the one to blame
[02:24.18]In this life that we live
[02:27.57]
[02:29.16]We only tryna survive
[02:30.60]It's hard with the blind leading the blind
[02:32.58]
[02:34.56]Young n***az stay hungry for war
[02:36.60]Bred and raised by hustlers and whores
[02:38.49]Born the struggle in this jungle escape poor
[02:40.80]While the
[02:41.07]White House got ten rooms with ten blind doors
[02:43.47]I was born to fight for what's right by the day and night
[02:45.99]Prayin' for life 'cause s**t ain't tight in these streets
[02:48.36]That's why
[02:48.75]I stay squeezin' my heat and strippin' life from mammals
[02:51.36]A hungry young hustler ready to gamble
[02:53.31]For a better way of livin so f**k sittin' in prison'
[02:55.92]
[02:57.87]Victimized by the system
[02:59.16]Cops and cellblocks why hell rots
[03:01.35]Young thugs from
[03:02.01]
[03:02.94]Slugs give shellshocks in these streets where funeral bells knock
[03:06.00]In these streets where we from
[03:09.75]
[03:10.68]We all caught in the game
[03:12.12]Tryna pull our life out of the drain
[03:13.95]If you don't make it you the one to blame
[03:15.87]
[03:24.36]In this life that we live
[03:31.50]
[03:41.67]We only tryna survive
[03:43.23]
[04:13.41]It's hard with the blind leading the blind
[04:22.04]
[04:33.00]Everybody here stuck in the grind