[00:21.44]Wake up  jumped out my bed
[00:22.79]
[00:23.34]I'm in a two man cell
[00:24.77]With my homie lil' 1/2 dead
[00:26.26]
[00:26.94]Murder was the case that they gave me
[00:28.73]
[00:29.23]Dear god  I wonder can you save me
[00:31.28]
[00:32.09]I'm only eighteen  so I'm a young buck
[00:33.96]
[00:34.51]It's a ride  if I don't scrap  I'm getting stuck
[00:36.90]But that's the life of g  I guess
[00:38.83]Ese's way deep  shanked two in the chest
[00:41.80]Best run 'cause brothers is dropping quicker
[00:44.13]Ugn  too late  damn  down goes another nigga
[00:46.89]
[00:47.91]Bouncin' off the walls  throwing them dogs
[00:50.17]Gettin' that rep as a young hog
[00:51.92]
[00:52.61]It ain't nothin' like the street life
[00:54.02]
[00:54.52]You better be strapped with your shank
[00:56.03]'Cause ain't no fist fight
[00:57.32]
[00:57.86]So I guess I gots to handle mine
[00:59.87]Since I did the crime  I got to do my time
[01:02.44]
[01:07.81]Lil' ghetto boy
[01:09.32]
[01:12.71]Playing in the ghetto streets
[01:14.60]
[01:18.60]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[01:20.19]
[01:21.97]And have to face responsibility
[01:24.23]
[01:27.87]Now I'm holding the dub  sitting on swoll
[01:29.84]
[01:30.65]Twenty-seven years old  up for parole  stroll
[01:33.47]
[01:34.31]I'm back up on my feet with my mind on the money
[01:36.86]That I be making soon as I touch them streets
[01:38.78]
[01:39.76]Things done changed on this side
[01:40.92]
[01:41.61]Remember they used to thump
[01:42.95]But now they blast  right
[01:43.97]
[01:44.67]But it ain't no thang to me
[01:46.14]
[01:46.71]'Cause now I'm what they call a loced ass o g
[01:48.96]
[01:49.68]The little homies from the hood with grip
[01:51.86]Are the ones I get with 'cause I'm down to set trip
[01:54.45]
[01:54.97]Nigga  I'm bigger than you  so whatcha wanna do
[01:57.86]Didn't know he had a twenty-two
[01:59.28]
[02:00.16]Straight sitting behind his back
[02:01.51]
[02:02.32]I grabbed his pockets and then I heard six caps
[02:04.73]
[02:05.65]I fell to the ground with blood on my hands
[02:09.01]I didn't understand
[02:09.68]
[02:10.58]How a nigga so young could bust a cap
[02:12.58]
[02:13.33]I used to be the same way back
[02:15.23]
[02:15.98]I guess that's what I get (for what )
[02:17.96]For trying to jack the little homies for they grip
[02:20.23]
[02:25.73]Lil' ghetto boy
[02:27.15]
[02:30.66]Playing in the ghetto streets
[02:32.91]
[02:36.36]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[02:38.00]
[02:39.92]And have to face responsibility
[02:42.38]
[02:46.65]Somethin' for the real o g 's to get with
[02:49.09]Some facts made our made
[02:50.28]Now you running but I'm played
[02:51.55]Like every single day  really doe
[02:53.60]You know me  I'm the smooth macadamian
[02:55.60]Gamin'em for my homie
[02:56.49]
[02:57.71]No need in be uncalm  if you pack right
[03:00.26]And learning just enough to keep your sack right
[03:02.02]
[03:02.66]Late nights  I wonder what they get in for
[03:04.66]
[03:05.31]Early morning on the corners  what they hitting for
[03:07.25]
[03:07.99]Seven young g's put they serve down
[03:09.87]
[03:10.52]In a g ride  eastside's where they swerve now
[03:13.19]Not thinkin' about what's really goin' on
[03:14.85]Got crept on  stepped on  now they gone
[03:17.23]I spent four years in the county
[03:19.25]With nothin' but convicts around me
[03:20.71]
[03:21.33]But now I'm back at the pound
[03:22.75]And we expose ways for the youth to survive
[03:25.55]Some think it's wrong
[03:26.64]But we tend to think it's right
[03:27.89]
[03:28.75]So make all them ends you can make
[03:30.80]'Cause when you're broke  you break  check it out
[03:33.53]So ain't no need for your mama to trip
[03:35.44]'Cause you's a hustlin' ass youngsta
[03:37.37]Clockin' your grip
[03:38.20]
[03:43.87]Lil' ghetto boy
[03:45.12]
[03:48.55]Playing in the ghetto streets
[03:50.82]
[03:54.36]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[03:56.06]
[03:57.91]And have to face responsibility