[00:10.94]I keep telling myself
[00:12.75]Man I'm living the good life
[00:14.56]I'm living the good life
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[00:20.34]I'm on top of the world
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[00:23.32]I'm on top of the world
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[00:32.50]I was born into poverty raised I the sewerage
[00:34.93]Streets always would be a part of me, it made me the truest
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[00:37.99]And even when my days were the bluest
[00:40.05]I never ran from adversity, instead I ran to it
[00:42.67]Fear ain't in the heart of me I learned just do it
[00:45.29]You get courage in your fears right after you go through it
[00:48.22]Now I come through in a Coupe on 22s
[00:50.66]That ain't bad for a nigga who ain't even finish school
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[00:53.53]Don't get me wrong I never been a fool
[00:55.71]I just put off graduating for a pair of tennis shoes
[00:58.52]I used to use the beat to paint my pain
[01:01.01]But nowadays man I can't complain
[01:03.45]I got several automobiles and they all on thangs
[01:05.63]Several size of tangent and they all in one chain
[01:09.06]Used to see me in the mall I'm the same
[01:11.81]And get a couple broads giving brain on the plane
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[01:36.60]I come from Chi-Town lost and found in the struggle
[01:38.59]Where dudes say stay safe and stay out of trouble
[01:40.47]Speak is muffed the law and B gon try to cuff you
[01:43.41]Those with duffles move weight and have muscles
[01:45.96]I came through the dirt with a verse for the people
[01:48.77]Open up for Daddy Kane and Easy up at the Regal
[01:51.39]The radio rarely put their needle on my record
[01:53.32]They ain't see how the hood and heaven were connected
[01:55.88]Sounds projected, ain't show how effective
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[01:59.25]Lessons learned, sessions turned to life reflected
[02:01.31]And everything I found real in life know I kept it
[02:04.55]They say life's a teacher, you're gonna get tested
[02:06.49]When a nigga changed they keep saying that nigga strange
[02:09.61]Couldn't see how my mind won't be the lame
[02:12.35]Ahead of my time I caught up with the game
[02:14.97]Making good music making paper making change
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[02:38.59]I put on gasoline drawers I stood in the fire
[02:41.65]With enough heat to set the hood on fire
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[02:44.33]Man you niggaz think Suge was off the wire
[02:46.83]You should've seen the squad before I had Messiah
[02:49.32]We assumed the title as the number one supplier
[02:52.00]Felt like I was selling blow since I was in diapers
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[02:55.12]And wish a nigga would come try us
[02:57.12]We was cool with the killers, best friends with the lifers
[03:00.12]Quick to up and scrap with niggaz who want to deny
[03:02.92]For what we considered then as a lucrative empire
[03:04.98]But like that pimping time flash by you
[03:07.73]Now I wonder what the judge think as he reading my priors
[03:10.91]Prison ain't full and the reefer ain't bias
[03:13.03]You ain't got to tell and distant the liars
[03:15.03]Gave the jail hell and shot birds at the hearse
[03:18.40]Lived through worse and reversed the curse