Nothing to Lose
No matter how you try / Niggas never die / We just retaliate with hate / Then we multiply
The only way to change me
Is maybe blow my brains out
Stuck in the middle of the game
To get the pain out
Pray to my God everyday
But he don’t listen
The poverty bothers me
But mama’s working wonders in the kitchen
Listen, I can hear her crying in the bedroom
Praying for money we’ll never get
Will she be dead soon?
Am I wrong for wishing I was somewhere else
I’m thirteen, can’t feed myself
Can I blame daddy cause he left me?
Wish he would’ve hugged me
Too much like him
So my mama don’t love me
On my own at a early age
I’m getting paid and I’m strapped
So I’ll never be afraid
Where did I go astray?
I’m hanging in the back streets
Running with G’s and dope fiends
Will they jack me?
Can’t turn back, my eyes on the prize
I got nothing to lose
Everybody gotta die
Say good-bye to the bad guy
That one, you fucked, when you passed by
Buck-buck from a Glock let the glass fly
Do or die walk a mile in my shoes
And you’d be crazy too
With nothing to lose
[Hook]
[The D.O.C] I got raw when I came to Cali
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[Ice Cube] That’s why I got gang-related rhymes
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[The D.O.C] I got raw when I came to Cali
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[Ice Cube] That’s why I got gang-related rhymes
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[The D.O.C] I got raw when I came to Cali
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[Ice Cube] That’s why I got gang-related rhymes
[2Pac] Got nothing to lose
[The D.O.C] I got raw when I came to Cali
[2Pac] Nothing to lose
[Ice Cube] That’s why I got gang-related rhymes
I thank the Lord for my many blessings
Though I’m stressing
Keep a vest for protection
From the barrel of a Smith & Wesson
And all my niggas in the pen
Here we go again
Ain’t nothing separating us from a MAC-10
Born in the ghetto as a hustler, older
Straight soldier
Bucking at them bustas
No matter how you try
Niggas never die
We just retaliate with hate
Then we multiply
See me striking down the block hitting corners
Mobbing like a motherfucker
Living like I wanna
Ain’t no stopping at the red lights
I’m sideways, THUG LIFE
Motherfucker, crime pays
Let the cops put they lights on
Chase me, nigga
Zig-zagging through the freeway
Race me, nigga
In a high speed chase with the law
The realest motherfucker that you ever saw
I’m living raw, til they bury me
Don’t worry me, I’m high
Living like I ain’t afraid to die
And if you could walk a mile in my shoes
Then you’d be crazy too
With nothing to lose
[Hook]
Ain’t no escape from a deadly fate
And every day
There’s a million black bodies put away
I’m starting to lose hope
It seems everybody’s on dope
Mama told me to leave
Cause she was broke
Sometimes I choke on the indo
Creeping out the window
Alone, on my own, I’m a criminal
Got no love from the household
I’m out cold
On the streets screaming “Motherfuck peace!”
I got nothing to lose
And something to prove, what do I do?
Live the THUG LIFE, nigga, stay true
I wonder when they kill me
Is there a heaven for a real G?
Lord forgive me, if you feel me
Cause all my life I was dirt broke
With no hope
Little skinny motherfucker wanting dough
I hated cutting suckers with my razor blade
But everyday it’s a struggle to get major pay
Anyway
It’s so hard on a nigga in this city
No pity
And ain’t no love for the scrubs that be buying dime
If you could walk a mile in my shoes
Then you’d be crazy too
With nothing to lose
[Hook]
They wonder what type nigga be a
THUG LIFE nigga
We be the craziest
Motherfucker
You know!
They wonder what type nigga be a
THUG LIFE nigga
We be the craziest