Life We Livin lyrics

[sample:]Black people y'all better realize that we losingYou better gotdamn fight, and die if you got toNahmsayin but now niggaz is ready to die over a coatA necklace 'round your throat! That's bullshit[Hook:][Crayon:]A criminal mind when living behindMaterial times just seek and you'll find[Scratches]That's the life we livin[Crayon:]Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papesBut sealing our fate, we hate it but wait![Scratches]That's the life we livin[Crayon:]The hottest summers, coldest wintersKids play ball with frozen fingersWhile the gunsmoke often lingersWe pack pistols by our penisBlow the brains from out them dreamersBlood spilling on the cementPainting walls making muralsFor the ones no longer breathingWriting raps for my eulogiesPawning TVs and jewelrySome of us perfectly happyLiving in the lap of povertyChoices that apply to mePay rent or be homelessBy the way this shit is goingWe gonna never be ownersGot no time to brush shouldersWhen police all up on usThey be co
ming at us dailyWith evictions and warrantsTrying to escapeThe corners and coffinsWhere stick up kids be warringAnd any face that's foreignCan get shot off of boredom[Hook:][Crayon:]A criminal mind when living behindMaterial times just seek and you'll find[Scratches]That's the life we livin[Crayon:]Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papesBut sealing our fate, we hate it but wait![Scratches]That's the life we livin[Rock Shabazz:]New York streets is hell, shades of blue and orangesThe rotten apple stuck in Adam or Eve's oesophagusYour head is a sarcophagus, your cranium's a coffinThat's why street niggaz is mentally dead very oftenAmateur abortions, toilet bowls is coffinsHigh school is warzones, educational system rottenKids commit crimes out of boredomStarted regretting as soon as the officers caught emWe're stuck in Sodom and GomorrahSame crime, bail variesMama sayin Hail MarysShorties getting knocked up, so now forcefully getting marriedRiding subway cars to entry level jobs
Watching Black men hardened from years of tryna act hardI get slight chills from these niggaz' ice grillsCivilzed still, thirst like a savage for the billsOn the corner of Black Man boulevard and Nigga ave searchin for directionThese streets is teachin valuable lessons[Hook:][Crayon:]A criminal mind when living behindMaterial times just seek and you'll find[Scratches]That's the life we livin[Crayon:]Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papesBut sealing our fate, we hate it but wait![Scratches]That's the life we livin[Scratches:]I keep livin like this I might lose itLife (Life) as a shortie shouldn't be so roughI keep livin like this I might lose itI walk down the block with my stomach in knotsLife as a shortie shouldn't be so roughLiving in the ghetto trying to get the hell outThat's the life we livin[Rock Shabazz:]Nigga I gotta get paid!I've been waisting my life since the tenth gradeIt's time to get paid!By legal means, no sense in doing crimesNiggaz is so blind they take prid
e in doing timeDifferent judge same case, different bid same placeIt's like having a different exponent with the same baseSame mistakes with greater stakes, saddened by the lives we livinA grown ass man gotta make the wise decisions[Crayon:]Catch post-traumatic syndromeFrom semi automatic shots flownIn these cold city streets where I roamSame block different time zoneSome cats is 7-30I wake very earlyLandlord like Mr.FerleyAnd I never get no peaceMy mom is filled with griefAt night I hear her cryingCause they ain't renew the leaseI'm looking forward to some beefAnd each days a mysteryAnd even if I D-I-EI swear 2 God I wanna leave[Hook: Crayon]A criminal mind when living behindMaterial times just seek and you'll find(Scratches)That's the life we livin[Crayon]Surrounded by hate, we chasin for papesBut sealing our fate, we hate it but wait!(Scratches)That's the life we livin[x2][Hook: Crayon]A criminal mind when living behindMaterial times just seek and you'll findSurrounde
d by hate, we chasin for papesBut sealing our fate, we hate it but wait![Conversation:]Crayon: Yeah Rock yo I'm tired man. I'm bout to hit the ave and get a shape-up sonRock : Yo word you 'bout to get up on the ave son?Crayon: Yeah a nigga hungry about to get a heroRock: Word man I'm bout to jump back on my train man youknowhati'msayin get back to my hood see what's going on right now manCrayon: Alright no doubt man same time next week?Rock: Yo yo you heard about your man Paul son?Crayon: Everyday shit man. Niggaz is dyin everyday man. I'm tired of that shitRock: Man niggaz man got my mans locked up on some bullshit(That's the life we livin...)