[wyclef talking:] Yo to my people doing time, xzibit, juvenile, y'all need to Nature, ja rule, reptile come on Bring the heat. [xzibit] Look, I'm inhumane livin' in this house of pain Stuc...

[wyclef talking:] Yo to my people doing time, xzibit, juvenile, y'all need to Nature, ja rule, reptile come on Bring the heat. [xzibit] Look, I'm inhumane livin' in this house of pain Stuck with ...

It was a hot summer day, I was dyin from the heat Walkin up 118th street Although I'm hot like stew In the back of my mind it was a bottle of brew Now a ice cold bottle would just quench my thi...

Facing 25 to life for something I did...My song is supposed to be a big admission ...my trial gets ready to start ...but the D.A. trying to prove premeditated ...ing my Locs, trying to get them to testify ...oke, it's hazardous to your health ...out it, they'll try to do worse to me ...awyer standing next to me, prepared to represent ...get convicted cause to him ... Why they trying to give me deuce-5 to life? ... They trying to give me 25 to life cause I'm guilty ti...on and it's his job to write it ...ries for the public to consume ... never told anybody to go out kill somebod... Why they trying to give me deuce-5 to life? ... They trying to give me 25 to life cause I'm guilty ti...m knowing I'm going to end up in the pen ... and be -Dub trying to get these years era... I'm trying to keep my head up but... It makes me want to do like Sicx: take ...n and do everything to keep my composure ...resenting the Blocc to the fullest and rid... And I'm going to be 125 years old be... what you're going to do when you see me ... wish I didn't have to be this way but it'... Why they trying to give me deuce-5 to life? ... They trying to give me 25 to life

Immune to change and far from...Life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life ...Need to kill this painful l...an't keep living my life this way ...Life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life ...The road to hell is paved with ...Got to break this soulless...Return my life to human shape ...Life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life

Immune to change and far from...life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life...need to kill this painful l...an't keep living my life this way...life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life...the road to hell is paved with ...got to break this soulless...Return my life to human shape...life is a cage when you'...Sentence of pain 25 to life

Yo to my people doing time, xzibit, juvenile, y'all need to ...But I can't listen to my conscience it's ... keep your luxuries to a minimal ...with plenty of time to adjust to life on the inside ...shit you don't want to hear my side ...y nerves bad I need to smoke me a jo' ...Y'all go tell that to my mother & my fath...Look the same to y'all passin' nigga...'t goin' home I got 25 to life. ...u new york, you try to criticize me I crit...y beat I shed light to with crazy wattage ...Learned who not to trust grew obnoxiou...So niggas start to hate me same time t... slow down take you to court ...ht of murderer true to the sport ...se youngins lookin' to feel me out ...' the yard ox taped to my nuts ...Ready to self destruct lord I don't want to die ... powered your honor to hit me with 25 ...You 'bout to die thug! ... acid on the corpse to clear the evidence ...wyclef]: y'all need to

Yo to my people doing time, xzibit, juvenile, y'all need to...But I can't listen to my conscience it's ... keep your luxuries to a minimal...with plenty of time to adjust to life on the inside...shit you don't want to hear my side...y nerves bad I need to smoke me a jo'...Y'all go tell that to my mother & my fath...Look the same to y'all passin' nigga...'t goin' home I got 25 to life....u new york, you try to criticize me I crit...y beat I shed light to with crazy wattage...Learned who not to trust grew obnoxiou...So niggas start to hate me same time t... slow down take you to court...ht of murderer true to the sport...se youngins lookin' to feel me out...' the yard ox taped to my nuts...Ready to self destruct lord I don't want to die... powered your honor to hit me with 25...You 'bout to die thug!... acid on the corpse to clear the evidence...wyclef]: y'all need to

what I seen made my life change...Made my life change,...Made my life change,...Made my life change,...Made my life change,...Made my life change,...eve what they doin' to my nigga buck...Facin' time, 25 to life...25 the same thing as life...Only chips is to fight or to forfeit...Baby momma tryin' to make the mortgage...what I seen made my life change...ed with remorse, my life was such a mess...m back on board due to the lords G-P-S...A message to the youth, what I'm...Ain't tryin' to be a part of the pe...The high life and high times, I w...Even to my self I'm feelin'... I deny what I know to be true...Ain't tryin' to be a part of the pe

To my cousin Darren Ra...To my brother Chris Bu...To my brother Mikey Mi...To my cause J.B., stay... his daughter, just to let her breathe...Give my eyes to Stevie Wonder just to see what he's seen...take 'em right back to see Martin Luther's...y soul, others used to sell rocks...If you ever have to leave I got your mo...To be safe it's safe to say the justice sys...If you doing 25 to life, stay up homie...Until I went to jail you couldn't t...That shit I used to tell my walkie...To my man Lil' Nell (s...To my man Steve P (sta...To my man Paul Selene ...To Abdul McKeith (stay... locked up you need to send 'em some shit...it's never too late to stop being a bitch...It's so close to bein slavery, in Te...I reached out to C-Murder right befo...Ain't no limit to this shit cause now...t a 'X' on November 25 I'm still alive...ecious took his own life...To my cousin Jimmy Wat...To my homeboy Mack (st...To my nigga Pharoahe (...To my nigga Z-Ro (stay...To the king Larry Hoov...To my partner Shan-O y...To the homeboy Shyne, ...To my nigga Mystikal,

out 3 o'clock I had to meet my crew ...Nice is not the one to treat the ladies li...Don't mean to diss, but it's not ...lda been taught how to respect this flavor...I didn't proceed to make a move until a...wish it didn't have to come to this ... givin it all I had to give until I fell f...They proceeded to stomp but in all of...gger I guess I have to pay the price ...Pushin 25 to life

Gettin' men lynched to win tits ...spots from New York to Canada ...ey automatically go to heaven fuckin' with...So don't try to front troop ...I'm out to collect figures ...When it comes to rap I got skills ou...sendin' garbage MCs to the graveyard" (x2)...bitch motherfuckers to try to flip ...? no need to lie or cry it's time motherfucker to die ...Because to me death is like se...>From 25 consecutive 25 the life is ...And now I'm decked to hawk shit and talk ...Cause I like to break when I finish... roof said you want to be the four guy ...Nuff respect to Big L who get wreck...I rip tracks want to say peace to hip hop ... but I ain't tryin' to hear shit ...You tried to play me to the left

Livin tha life of a thug, movin em...Quick to pull a trigga and l...of the mommies doin 25 to life in a cell ...nd what do I profit to lose my soul and ga...Livin the street life ...Tha street life ...A yo, the street life is the only life I know ...taught to hustle these streets and grind to make dough ...Yo, this was the life I seen raised as a ...and everybody tryin to come up in this evi...t, but gave an oath to the death of me ...I tried to get a job, but they swear I'm up to no good ...ssin, if I'm scared to test em

shit is about to change-mother fucke...I just want to get high and live i...and why you tryin to slave us ...to blow up ...he know how to get by ...then be fixed to be fly ...a plan to stay wise and wide ...oh who want to over take and leave...living life on the edge of dang...living life on the edge of dang...about taking my own life ...t gun shit be going to they head ...to make bread I gotta ...we came to hear these 25 to life niggas who just cam...its life on the edge of dang...its life on the edge of dang

it seems that life ain't nuttin but ph...I wouldn't want to die ...if I want to see cash that's gon...t nickels and dimes to G notes ...the heart to try to step to, fuck wit ...nfident its my year to ...what all life can be ... kind of hesitation to 25 ta life you get ...he gon roll all his life ...he gon roll all his life being big bad and b...you rightful to fall of in life either deceased or

il' crazy, so I got to give love back either gang bang,slang or pull the mutha fuckin' jack it's all good 'cause I'm drivng nice cars pretty soon 25 to life spent behind bars, a wicked sly's life , 'cause I'm a son of a gun I'm only 19 but would I live to see 21, a loco mutha fucka so you better step back try to pull the jack,ill feed you bullets for a fukin snack better pero orita 'cause I'm puffin from leno coming from detroit por vida loco surenos, to locs matching deep in my city once I'm acting up just because I'm rollin clean in a chevy,dark skin mexican standind 5'4 put the pedal to the flow hear my glass backs roll hit the the corner with the passion on my way to the market T-Dre shotgun with a blunt ready to spark it 10:30 in the morning but I don't care,hit the switch lock it up chronic smoke in the air,hard player with my locs on ready to make some hits ready to make some grip with my dope ass lyrics stacking up a platefull like regular, and just then my homie bones hits me up I'ma cellular feeling to brake up a couple blocks for my ass up and hook it on up as I cruise down the over pass hit the stuff filling on my cup to the rim on the why ...oppin drop the ride to the side causin havoc with my homies blowing indo smoke dipped and brued the oldies every day and my life is getting better and better blaze n blaze it in the morning and I'm down for whatever,the locs pick me up around 11:32 I said I'm down to claim but what the hell we gonna do Santa Maria S.M.V.P scooped up jay bird ray ray and the C.U.Z I got my cuzzin buzzen in the back chronic smoke hot box full of contact now it's time to roll to the pot hole and spark another bowl another rag time foe on the 3 times go,..now were we go from here keep on mashing through the central coast atmosphere for the things that I do I know I'm gonna pay the cost for the reason why I'm gone, for the reason why I'm lost ..living week by week living day by day doing what I gotta do to get my furtunate fame but I'm lost in th system not made for me so I'm suppose to break rocks straight I for my g, nineteen with a mexicano lame throwin up on my colors red, white, to the green always lookin out just in case fools jump me time to handle shit and break em' off real quick take a look around you fool then take a close look 'cause all the shit I see I jot it down in my rhyme book my homies droppin off like cause a nine to five the one's that survive take a steel cage bus ride but for me I ain't sucka free 'cause punks is tryin to take it easy lessy comin straight from the get go we ran our own undercover gang though fools didn't even know that we was real to the heart see bein true to the game that's how it is in the S.M.V. holdin on to my dreams makin to the top but I'm stu...ial shouts goes out to my homies that was ...Yeah wasup to my homie j-bird yeah ray ray kickin know what I'm sayin yeah I gotta say wasup to my homie bonez yeah

it seems that life ain't nuttin but ph...I wouldn't want to die ...if I want to see cash that's gon...t nickels and dimes to G notes ...the heart to try to step to, fuck wit ...nfident its my year to ...what all life can be ... kind of hesitation to 25 ta life you get ...he gon roll all his life ...he gon roll all his life being big bad and b...you rightful to fall of in life either deceased or

a chance don't want to blow it... nothing you can do to keep us weak... feet and get ready to bust...the ghetto back far to one place one time...iving in the ghetto to ghetto and ghetto...to ghetto cause ghetto...Try to kick it when you sp... my business trying to fuck up my move...ad niggas I've been to war... simplest things in life were always the bes...This is the life that I love...This is the life that I live...And it's a life full of lust nigga...They said they got 25 to life just for slingin' s...ng some cheese just to feed their folks...e its sadder for us to get caught up by th...Coming to school wit' heaters...Whatever happened to family and humanity...and hustlin' trying to get something eat