UGK (Underground Kingz) - Hi Life(1996)

[00:15.46] Hi life, we livin' that hi life
[00:23.64] Hi life, we livin' that hi life, mmm
[00:37.36] (Hi life, mmm)
[00:39.11] I'm tired livin' fucked up, tired of livin' bad
[00:41.86] Tired of hearing grandma tellin' me
[00:43.68] When you gonna go to church Chad
[00:44.56] Now I'm tryin' to live up to the image
[00:47.35] That she would want me to be
[00:48.23] But I got one foot in the street
[00:49.14] And every week I flip a Ki
[00:50.90] I never wanted to be a G
[00:51.88] But niggas depend on me
[00:53.64] It ain't safe to hit I-10
[00:55.59] So niggas fear with me
[00:56.43] And all the niggas that I went to school wit
[00:59.28] Got cool wit, went to fool wit
[01:01.01] I dealt selling that white shit
[01:02.86] Pushin' cocaine, niggas holding pistols
[01:06.55] Dependant on the game
[01:08.46] What ya want me to do?
[01:09.33] It's like somebody cut my throat
[01:11.25] Got 20, 000 dollar tryin' to turn it to a hundred
[01:13.93] And ain't nobody got no dough
[01:15.72] So niggas came to smoke, bad habits do exist
[01:18.45] And if this bitch came thinking to ease my mind
[01:21.21] By sucking my dick
[01:22.10] Bitch make up for a minute 'cause that ship never lasts
[01:23.91] In 1996 niggas is dyin' from layin' on that ass
[01:28.42] First Magic Johnson got it, then Eazy-E died
[01:30.23] And you wonder why yo' niggas out there smokin' fry
[01:33.99] I wish that I could tell you, I wore a rubber every time
[01:36.68] But if I told you that nigga you know that I be lyin'
[01:39.37] And I've been fucking pussy since the tender age of nine
[01:43.05] It's gettin' to be a full-time job just tryin' to stay alive
[01:45.70] And Crackers tend to smirk
[01:47.63] Offended by the weed smoke comin' off my shirt
[01:50.34] But still I puts in work and front for my folks
[01:53.06] 'Cause where I come from nigga, family just ain't no joke
[01:56.79] Now D be gettin' married and Edgar on the boat
[01:59.48] But what about Baby Doe, some say that nigga's selling dope
[02:02.10] And you know that I ain't lyin', that just how family talk
[02:04.89] But what you gonna do when the Devil poke you with his fork
[02:08.56] And everybody sittin' in the pulpit ain't saved
[02:13.04] Most preachers are false prophets
[02:14.00] Fuckin' hoes and gettin' paid, I'm lookin' for the
[02:14.99] Hi life, we livin' that hi life
[02:23.03] Hi life, we livin' that hi life, mmm
[02:35.70] (Hi life, mmm)
[02:38.46] You only got one life to live
[02:40.29] That's all they give you to do it
[02:42.17] You could bullshit your way through it
[02:43.99] Or stay true, it can be complicated
[02:46.64] 'Cause niggas be gettin' shot in the cross
[02:48.40] People and names get lost
[02:49.31] The people in the lane get tossed
[02:51.29] The streets'll eat your ass alive
[02:53.01] Take your positions with pistols, bare hands and knives
[02:55.72] And nobody's surprised if somebody
[02:57.50] Don't survive the dusk to see dawn
[03:00.23] It's treacherous how we was left to die
[03:02.05] On the streets that we be on
[03:05.60] Motherfuckers sleepin' on them corners that you pee on
[03:06.52] Probably 'cause society felt they didn't belong
[03:10.22] Now who in the fuck made it this way for us?
[03:12.95] Got all these little niggas slangin' that yay
[03:14.72] Because it ain't like they make high levels gain able
[03:17.46] And that punk piece of American pie just ain't obtainable
[03:21.10] So how can I substain a full life before death
[03:23.89] Man, I'm left out here to make it by my goddamn self
[03:26.65] Now c'mon, who gives a damn
[03:29.38] When you can't afford the turkey or ham
[03:31.19] Livin' off of Raemon Noodles, beef jerky, and Spam
[03:33.95] Now that's sad, but that's a fact of life
[03:36.64] All I can see in front of me is up for grabs
[03:38.44] Come off that slab
[03:40.24] 'Cause poverty will push a nigga over that brink
[03:43.04] Over the edge especially if you don't know your ledge
[03:45.78] So instead of being without, I'm hustling
[03:48.44] Tryin' to get through these ungodly days
[03:50.21] Thinkin' of ways to get the fuck outta this maze
[03:53.07] A man will commit a crime 'cause a fuckin' crime pays
[03:55.72] I'm going through a phase you don't grow out
[03:58.42] Until there's a reason a mother fuckers gots to pour out
[04:01.14] His 40 on the curb, disturbed and left with no doubt in his mind
[04:04.86] But still sometimes he don't know why he walkin'
[04:07.57] Around just hopin', he can get one more try to make it
[04:11.19] It's bullshit he going through but yo, he gots to take it
[04:12.98] You can't fake it, to get that hi life
[04:16.62] Hi life, we livin' that hi life
[04:26.62] Hi life, we livin' that hi life, mmm
[04:36.68] (Hi life, mmm)
[04:39.38] Hi life, we livin' that hi life
[04:48.41] Hi life, we livin' that hi life, mmm
[04:57.50] (Hi life, mmm)
[05:03.86] Hi life, we livin' that hi life
[05:12.03] Hi life, we livin' that hi life, mmm
[05:22.06] (Hi life, mmm)
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