[00:00.300]{2pac} In the life we live as thugs
[00:02.345]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[00:05.585]It's hard to be a man
[00:07.586]Ridin' with my guns in hand
[00:09.214]Why explain the game
[00:10.330]Niggas ain't listenin', stuck in positions
[00:12.311]If victims can't stand the heat
[00:13.730]Then stay the **** out the kitchen
[00:15.096]Half these busters switchin', lookin' at me mean
[00:17.083]Itchin', givin' suckers plenty space
[00:18.824]Have these bitch niggas snitchin'
[00:20.280]Where are we now, guns found daily
[00:22.278]The feds surely hope that they could finally nail me
[00:24.838]For sellin' dope they backwards
[00:26.332]Make the track burst whenever I rap, attack
[00:28.719]Words been known to explode on contact
[00:31.085]Extreme at times, blinded by my passion and fury
[00:33.481]Look at me laugh at my competition's
[00:35.170]flashin' my jewelry. You'd stay silent,
[00:36.890]if you niggas knew me, truely effective
[00:38.749]The shit you heard ain't do me justice
[00:40.329]Got a death wish, bitch. Run,
[00:41.781]but face being traced by the infrared beam
[00:43.917]It seems niggas ain't recognize my team
[00:46.484]Ain't nobody holdin' you back
[00:48.021]Explode the track to confetti, unload it
[00:50.238]Cause niggas ain't ready, the life of an outlaw
[00:52.765]In the life we live as thugs
[00:55.115]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[00:58.237]It's hard to be a man
[01:00.249]Ridin' with my guns in hand
[01:02.536]Code 3, attack formation, pull out your pistols
[01:05.278]Keep an eye out for the devils
[01:06.525]Cause they itchin' to get you
[01:07.787]Merciless madman screamin' kamikaze in tongue
[01:10.382]Automatic gunfire makin' all my enemies run
[01:13.025]Who should I call when I'm shot and bleedin'
[01:15.085]Indeed a possibility has part a chase in cream
[01:17.621]Dope got me hatin' fiends
[01:18.719]Scheme with my team, just a chosen few
[01:20.921]My foes victim of explosives
[01:22.637]Come closer, exhale the fumes
[01:24.168]We got memories fadin' fast, a slave for cash
[01:27.108]Accelerate, mash, blast, then dash
[01:29.004]Don't look now. How you like it, raw
[01:30.858]Niggas ain't ready for the wrath of the outlaws
[01:33.397]Never surrender, death before dishonor
[01:35.584]Stay free, I'm thugged out
[01:37.212]**** the world cause this is how they made me
[01:39.156]Scarred but still breathin'
[01:40.365]Believe in me and you could see the victory
[01:42.337]A warrior in jewels. Will you picture me?
[01:44.485]Life of and outlaw
[01:45.382]In the life we live as thugs (no doubt)
[01:47.621]Everybody ****in' with us (yes!)
[01:49.247]So can't you see (life of an outlaw)
[01:50.838]It's hard to be a man (soldiers in position)
[01:52.927]Ridin' with my guns in hand (attack formation)
[01:53.823](No retreat, no surrender)
[01:55.307]{Young Noble} City under siege
[01:56.533]It's like I can't even breathe
[01:57.843]I'm from the state of car thieves
[01:59.301]G.E.D. from the street, plenty beef
[02:01.186]I play for keeps, arrange the whole crime scene
[02:03.323]Mobb peep
[02:04.039]They sneak up from behind tryin' to creep
[02:05.799]No halfs with no straps, jack
[02:07.399]It's on to bounce back, an ounce of wrath so bad
[02:09.729]It snatched my style on death
[02:11.222]Tell the gripper I was sent to get ya
[02:13.032]Snip with clippers, get the picture
[02:14.658]I wrote my life down as a scripture
[02:15.925]{E.D.I. Mean} And still I'm lost,
[02:17.211]in the land of the lonely
[02:18.443]Where ain't nobody holy
[02:19.513]Matter of a fact, we unholy
[02:20.584]Everybody livin' solely for themselves
[02:22.533]Too high strung to lend help
[02:23.765]To somebody who be needin' it
[02:24.735]You know we lost hope and he needin' it
[02:26.445]But the evil it's forever but I'm rappin' low down
[02:28.570]Scandalous, like a tramp is
[02:29.937]All for the street fame on
[02:31.278]How to be managed to plan shit
[02:33.132]6 months in advanced to what we plotted
[02:35.420]Approached the goal on swole and now I got it
[02:36.909]{Kastro} Uh, crack my window
[02:38.322]Knowin' they'd love to catch Kastro sleepin'
[02:40.093]Attach a strap under my pillow
[02:41.461]Hand to hand like we freakin'
[02:42.812]Creepin' deep into the mornin'
[02:44.448]Peepin' out the weak while they yawnin'
[02:46.314]And let my clout speak for itself, no doubt
[02:48.495]Outlaw, outta my mind, outta time
[02:50.197]You're all blind, some kind of life of mine
[02:52.081]If K-Dog don't mind, findin' it funny
[02:54.055]Matter of fact, 'cause it is, perhaps finally
[02:56.322]I'll adapt to it over the years as an outlaw
[02:59.448]{2Pac} Eh, Napoleon
[03:00.269]{Napoleon} What's up, nigga?
[03:01.272]{2Pac}Would you die for me, nigga?
[03:02.262]{Napoleon} Hell yeah
[03:03.084]{2Pac}Would you kill for me, nigga?
[03:03.992]{Napoleon} On my grandmother, nigga
[03:05.442]{2Pac}Ah, yo
[03:06.104]{Napoleon} What's up
[03:06.693]{2Pac} Let's ride on them stupid bitches right now
[03:07.896]{Napoleon} Watch out
[03:08.551]Well, now they all say that
[03:09.417]Vultures and parasites, snakes are all alike
[03:12.121]Thug life break night, drink 'til we fist fight
[03:14.603]Life or death, but you can't win with a vest
[03:16.864]But there won't be no breathin' for the reason
[03:18.438]Punk bitch on your breath
[03:19.477]I see day is dark and I admit it's dark
[03:22.039]So chase on the ave, hide your stash
[03:23.783]Beware from them marks. And yo, Makaveli
[03:26.080]Give me them bullets that was left up in your belly
[03:28.068]And let me bust back to them niggas
[03:29.699]'Til they all cold and sweaty
[03:30.832]{2pac} In the life we live as thugs
[03:33.180]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[03:36.365]It's hard to be a man
[03:38.442]Ridin' with my guns in hand
[03:41.432]In the life we live as thugs
[03:43.753]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[03:46.906]It's hard to be a man
[03:49.014]Ridin' with my guns in hand
[03:51.937]In the life we live as thugs
[03:54.243]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[03:57.457]It's hard to be a man
[03:59.538]Ridin' with my guns in hand
[04:02.514]In the life we live as thugs
[04:04.786]Everybody ****in' with us so can't you see
[04:07.984]It's hard to be a man
[04:10.084]Ridin' with my guns in hand