2Pac - The Streetz R Deathrow(1993)

[00:02.14] Growing up as an inner city brother
[00:04.01] Where every other had a pops and a mother
[00:05.96] I was the product of a heated lover
[00:07.81] Nobody knew how deep it screwed me
[00:09.77] And since my pops never knew me
[00:11.44] My family didn't know what to do with me
[00:13.49] Was I somebody they despised?
[00:15.52] Curious look in they eyes
[00:16.64] As if they wonder if I'm dead or alive
[00:18.62] And poor momma can't control me
[00:20.72] "Quit tryin' to save my soul, I wanna roll with my homies!"
[00:23.87] A tickin' timebomb, can't nobody fade me
[00:26.56] Packin' a 380 and fiendin' for Mercedes
[00:28.86] Suckers scatter but it don't matter I'm a cool shot
[00:31.52] Punks drop from all the buckshots the fools got
[00:34.67] I'm tired of being a nice guy
[00:36.33] I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why
[00:39.10] So they label me a lunatic who care less, death or success
[00:42.54] Is what I quest 'cause I'm fearless
[00:44.23] Now the streets are deathrow ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[00:47.87] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[00:53.49] The streets are death row
[00:55.00] I just murdered a man, I'm even more stressed, wearin' a vest
[00:58.32] Hopin' that they're aimin' at my chest
[01:00.33] Much too young to bite the bullet
[01:02.42] Hand on the trigger
[01:03.50] I see my life before my eyes each time I pull it
[01:05.80] I hope I live to be a man
[01:07.76] Must be part of some big plan to keep a brother in the state pen
[01:11.47] Counting pennies over the years I'd done stacked many
[01:14.14] Proving wrong those
[01:15.02] Who swore I'd wouldn't live 'til 20
[01:16.97] Now they gotta cope
[01:18.82] Since it's the only thing I know
[01:20.22] It's difficult to let it go
[01:21.64] I'm startin' to lose my hair 'cause I worry
[01:24.35] Hustlin' to keep from gettin' buried
[01:25.91] But now I gotta move away now
[01:29.06] 'Cause these suckers love ta' spray where I lay down
[01:32.08] My homie lost his family, he snapped
[01:34.74] Shot up half the block to bring them back
[01:36.76] The streets are deathrow ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[01:41.25] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[01:46.99] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[01:52.13] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[01:57.76] I'm dangerous when drunk, I only drink beer
[02:00.57] Gin makes me sin
[02:01.65] Unable to think clear
[02:03.07] Hennessy makes me think my enemy is getting close
[02:05.70] Boom, boom, boom
[02:06.88] Got me shooting at a ghost
[02:08.13] Some call me crazy, but this is what you gave me
[02:10.91] Amongst the babies who raised up from the slavery
[02:13.67] I sport a vest and hit the sess to kill the stress
[02:16.45] Moved out west and I invest in all the best
[02:18.62] Those who test will find a bullet in they chest
[02:21.40] Put to rest, by a brother who was hopeless
[02:24.15] Grow up broke, on the rope of insanity
[02:26.62] How many pistols smoking comin' from a broken family?
[02:30.48] I'm sick of being tired
[02:32.51] Sick of the sirens, body bags, and the guns firin'
[02:35.87] Tell Bush, "Push the button!" 'cause I'm fed
[02:38.78] Tired of hearin' these voices in my head
[02:40.50] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[02:44.77] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[02:49.10] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[02:55.04] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[03:00.61] The streets are death row ('cause I'll beat you down like it ain't nothin')
[03:02.42] This go out to my partners in the Live Squad
[03:03.78] (Like it ain't nothin')
[03:05.31] And all my homies out there involved in that 187
[03:09.56] Watch your back
[03:11.15] There's got to be a better way
[03:13.15] There's too many of us in the cemetery
[03:16.05] I love it when they fear me!
[03:17.79] Come on, what we gonna do now?
[03:20.12] I love it when they fear me!
[03:23.13] The streets are death row
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