[Intro: C-Murder]
How many of my TRU niggas actually get a second chance at life?
At their dreams? Not many, huh
Peep game
[Verse 1: C-Murder]
Started off as a street thug, just hangin' and thuggin'
'89 went I to jail for druggin' and muggin'
Poppa, please, ain't no fuckin' way for me
Probation for 10 years don't mean you're free
I know my TRU motherfuckin' niggas know how I feel
This shit's real, I wish my brother wouldn't have got killed
For me to realize the game is wicked
Shit, can't even trust the niggas that I used to hang with
Huh, but I remember what my brother told me
I know a real bitch by the way she hold me
I love my TRU niggas like I love money
If you fuck with No Limit, you never find nothin' funny
And I take it to the grave with me
If you shoot first bitch, you better make sure you hit me
Cuz I'm known for choppin' keys on my mom's table
I split a hundred G's with my niggas Kane and Abel
Fast money, fast bitches is what I live for
Until I caught a fuckin' bullet in the back, bruh
They thought I was dead, but I'm still in it
I'm back to life, back on top, ain't no limit
[Chorus: Mo B. Dick & Master P]
Back to life (From the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (Some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
(From the cradle to the grave
There's some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
Back to life (From the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (Some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
[Verse 2: Master P]
Tattoo, Hennessy and weed
Grew up in the project with killers and Gs
The Last Don is known for slangin' and bangin'
Thug niggas, third ward Calio where we hangin'
Ghetto's soldiers mercenary we rhyme
This game is life or death and it's your soul or mine
We don't play no games boy, just tryin' get paid
Hope I get rich before they dig my grave
So many penitentiary chances: feds and demons
So many homies in the ghetto with their soul in [?]
Thank god we trust ain't no man gone harm me
My best friend be my lady cuz these fools are phonies
So, take heed I been beyond and back
I live my life through the lord, my homie, the greed and the back
I said: Ugh!
[Chorus: Mo B. Dick & Master P]
Back to life (From the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (Some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
(From the cradle to the grave
There's some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
[Verse 3: Silkk the Shocker & Master P]
You couldn't tell me nothin', a little ghetto child runnin' wild
Shed tears trough years made it hard to smile
Imagine homies dying while you standin' right there
See, yo, my reality's your worst nightmare
And now I'm trapped in the whole fuckin' world of sin
Kill or be killed hit down by the hands of his best friend
You gotta know if you wanna live there's rules to this shit
You can't break 'em if you wanna be rich
And when my homie died and didn't come back
I knew it was on nigga, stressed god blessed
Got his name on a tombstone
Some of my friends go out before me and I walk that path
I spraypaint your name on the wall and I sit back and laugh
You gotta make decisions, make 'em all with precision
Try to make moves and avoid prison
I remember the first time I laughed at the penitentiary steel
When the told me: "Spread, lift and cough," I knew it was real
Now I was just out there tryin' gain some strength
Birds came to me one night told me, "Silkk, you gotta change your life"
But it was all or nothin' could never settle for second
Gotta make the whole world feel my presence (Ugh)
I told my homie, don't cry if I close my eyes
"But Silkk the Shocker, you too young to die"
[Chorus: Mo B. Dick & Master P]
Back to life (From the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (Some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
(From the cradle to the grave
There's some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
Back to life (From the cradle to the grave)
Back to reality (Some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)
(From the cradle to the grave
There's some youngsters on the streets tryin' get paid)