ight up and down on the reel to real, if yo...He was born in a jail cell, cause his mother was a con ...And in his mother's cupped arms was a newborn timebomb ...'t his fault he was in the cageed vault for ag...On his eight-year-old sister ... death for spilling a glass of milk, ...Poppa was a boozer, momma was a drug abuser ...And another day of life to him's another day of trouble ...You gotta live this life for you to try and ...The diary of a hitman ... The diary of a hitman ...y's making money on the norm and you know h...en you see him with the leather gloves on ...He got a look in his eye like he wan...Packing the nine double murder ...10 G's a head, whoever you w...lead, and be buried in their own red ...On the prowl and his lifes...A self-made boss in the ??? of his moms and pops ...A flashback from the past, dad whipping ...For the cash, after that she hit the stash ...And takes a blast of the trash she was hooke...You gotta live this life for you to try and ...The diary of a hitman ... The diary of a hitman ...Sonny got a call from the mob ...nd for my man to do a quick job ...The contract was plain ...One in the mouth for talking, then two to the temple ...The address looked kind...there, cause he was in it for the money ...He made his way to the crime spot, the victim ...hing on his mind at the time but to get him...He arrived at 10 o'clock and didn't ...He just shot off the lock ...And he kicked the door open ...He made his way up the stairs, and there's...Mommy in tears, and daddy in fears ...But he didn't give a damn cause he never had a fam ...t's time to silence the lamb ...Momma took the first three, so now...Cause she's put out of misery ...ou had to live this life for you to try and ...The diary of a hitman ... The diary of a hitman

Got my insperation in the studio with me, rig...Got a lot to smile about,... bottled up, I need a fucking therapist ...But I can't think of nobody I wanna shar...rk pops] There goes the top, nigga, so here... all day, Daddy out in the streets ...Imagine 10 years old full of doubt and defeat ...Added faith to my life and doubt got subtr...y don't you try hit the drums ...But the gift within it, was...t wonder, what kind of black cloud I was u...ause 15 years later the other died that sum...But the weight of the world can really cr...ometimes, until you in conversation it comes out in a line so let it ...Aye yo, 10 21 Atlantis drive, ...apartments, we live in half the back ...That's where the 12 year olds there, they wb...The place we love the most, the hood was built to s...got older, still on the corner with they pr...Long as you got a breathe, a pulse, nigga strive...I heard a voice nigga, listen...I'm a happy nigga, you can't approach me in anguish ...Can't be mad at the world 'cause you an...'cause you pull out the stainless ...All of sudden you smart, n...nger chainless, and the bus switching lanes is a bad look ...hould be tryna find a place to base your ...You unsure of yourself, sit still... fit, put your name in the blank

Got my insperation in the studio with me, rig...Got a lot to smile about,... bottled up, I need a fucking therapist...But I can't think of nobody I wanna shar...There goes the top, nigga, so here... all day, Daddy out in the streets...Imagine 10 years old full of doubt and defeat...Added faith to my life and doubt got subtr...y don't you try hit the drums...But the gift within it, was...t wonder, what kind of black cloud I was u...ause 15 years later the other died that sum...But the weight of the world can really cr...ometimes, until you in conversation it comes out in a line so let it...Aye yo, 10 21 Atlantis drive, ...apartments, we live in half the back...That's where the 12 year olds there, they wb...The place we love the most, the hood was built to s...got older, still on the corner with they pr...Long as you got a breathe, a pulse, nigga strive...I heard a voice nigga, listen...But the weight of the world can really cr...ometimes, until you in conversation it comes out in a line so let it...I'm a happy nigga, you can't approach me in anguish...Can't be mad at the world 'cause you an...'cause you pull out the stainless...All of sudden you smart, n...nger chainless, and the bus switching lanes is a bad look...hould be tryna find a place to base your ...You unsure of yourself, sit still... fit, put your name in the blank...But the weight of the world can really cr...ometimes, until you in conversation it comes out in a line so let it

y that been through the struggle ...We all the same, yeah ...Growin' up in the projects, I had to stick to the script ...Every other day another person was ... school, I followed the rules ... to study, stay out of trouble ...hoever thought that a 12 year old could touch souls ...Even hip-hop braids in a row, that's so cold...It's a hard life, but love...Reach for the stars, life is trouble, put up a fight ...We all have a talent, some just d...'Stead of treated, we get tri...'Stead of kisses, we get kick...'Stead of treated, we get tri...'Stead of kisses, we get kick...Hard life is all about sacrif...never too late, ask the Lord for life ...p, take back charge of your life ...Do us all a favor and please qu...To the people, when the World Trade hit the floor ...And all the soldiers in the Pentagon, God bless...To the families and all the loved ones lost ...To the heroes in Pittsburg, you took...The world state y'all, ...rorists gonna spoil the fun ...'Stead of treated, we get tri...'Stead of kisses, we get kick...'Stead of treated, we get tri...'Stead of kisses, we get kick... for people to bang in the street ...My Baby? number one 10 weeks ...I did a show with Michael, yeah, I'm comin' for the title ...I don't feed into the negative, I sho' im...Don't go for the masses to be true like the Bible ...ong y'all, I'm part of the cycle ...I'm tryin' to be the next Jay-Z, Nelly a...y pops, that's just the way that I move ...live to see another day ...ed, I kneel down to the Lord and say ...'Stead of treated, we get tri...'Stead of kisses, we get kick

throw everybody out the motherfucking room ...I'd like to propose a toast) ...es, your glasses to the sky ...This is the last call for alcohol, for the ...get your ass up off the wall ...The all around the world Digital Under...The Rudolph the red nosed reindeer of the Roc ...hain, my 15 seconds of fame ...And come back next year with the whole fucking game ... he stop savin' all the good beats for hims...ultier cologne fill the air, here ...infectious, give me 10 seconds ...I'll have a buzz bigger than insects in Texas ...'Til the night I almost killed myself in Lexus ...Now was Kanye the most overlooked? Ye...Now is Kanye the most overbooked? Ye...Though the fans want the feeling of A Tribe Called Quest ...I'm the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy, and oooh ...me out sweeter than old Sadie ...B when I met him at the Source awards ...him, ass coulda won the horse awards ...Last year shoppin my demo, I ...use my arrogance as the steam to power my d...o I don't listen to the suits behind the desk no more ...I'm Kan, the Louis Vuitton Don ...Bought my mom a purse, now she Loui...I ain't play the hand I was dealt, I...I prayed to the skies and I changed...I went to the malls and I balled ...'Oh my god, is that a black card?' ...hy yes but I prefer the term ...Picked the Truth beat for Beanie. And I was in the session with him ...I play the songs, he's like "W...ed talking to me on the phone ...l him that you like the way he rap" ...ant to manage me as a rapper AND a producer ..."I'll sign you as a producer and a rapper" ...arted talking about the Ghost production ...ut that's how I got in the game. If it wasn't ... that. I was stayin in Chicago ...Just to try to keep the lights on, and then...Get a Pelle Pelle off lay...Or get a TechnoMarine, that'...yed it for Hip over the phone, he's like "o...bum he doin, called The Dynasty." ... at that time, like the drums really weren'...I just, like picked the drums off Xxplosive..., and now it's kind of like my whole style...d on 'This Can't be Life.' ...at was like, really the first beat of that kind that was on the Dynasty album ...d say that was the, the resurgence of this whole sound ...know, I got to come in and track the beat, and at the time ...se I been there for a while, I appreciate...t, you know there's a time in every man's life where he ...Gotta make a change, try to move up to the next level. And that day I ...Came and I tracked the beat and I got to m...You a real soulful dude" (you a real soulful dude) ...Uh, played the song 'cause he already spit his verse by the time I got ...To the studio, you know ho...l me what you think of this, right here") ...l me what you think of this." And I heard ...ly wanted more like of the simple type Jay-Z, ...Want like the, the more introspective, complicated rhy- or the, in my ...me, "what you think of it?" ... tell him? I was on the train ...In Chicago, I'm trying...Poppin' off the way it should have been. One of my homeys that was ...Of my artists, he got ...going straight with the ...st straight holdin' the phone, gettin' the bad ...The same time. So I went down and tracked the beats from him, I t...cked all my shit up in a you-Haul, maybe abo...With the landlord 'cause he's a jerk. Me and my mot...t to IKEA, I bought a ...Bed, I put the bed together myself...The first beat I made was, uh, 'Heart of the City.' ...s' birthday, matter of fact, and I ...ow I could see he's in the zone ...He already had the beats that he wante...But then Jay walked in. I remember he had a Gucci bucket ...And I played 'Heart of the City.' And ...eally I made 'Heart of the City,' I really wan...s face and made one of ... Two days later I'm in Baseline and I seen...ing these niggaz on the show ...The Streets is Watching, I'm looking, these were superstars in my ... know. So, Jay came in and he spit all ...These songs like in one day, and in two days, I gotta b... know, come back to the story, the day I did the 'Can't be ...Life' beat on track, I r...Minnelli, a bunch of people. I didn't know all these people at the ...Time they was in the room, and I said, "... line. But you know the West, the rap ...shit, so that's all the response. ...So, Blueprint, H to the Izzo, my first hit ...elI I think was one of the best ones to ever h...Career as a rapper. Because, you know, of course later he all... know I didn't have a deal, I had songs, ... some beats. "Gimme a beat that sound ...'cause I ain't have a jersey on or whatev...ough, but then like the heads, it'd be somebody at the ...a Mel brought me to a bunch of labels. Jessica Riv...The nigga that was behi...He wasn't even a nigga, you know? ...The person who actually..."We gonna change the game, buddy." ...s like, "yo you got a deal with Capitol, ...Then one day I just went ahead a...se you know Cam was in the room, Young Guru, a...Dame was in the room. So I played, actually it's a song that you'll ...Like the chorus went. Don't ...Like a rapper. And I'm sure Dame figured, 'like man. If he do a whole ...Save the album, you know. So uh Dame took me into the office, and he's ... "yo man, we, we on a brick, we on a brick" ...don't want to catch a brick" ...still about to take the deal with Capitol '...Already on the table and 'cause of my relationship wit...onna do it, and I'm a man of my word, I ...d me, "oh he's just a producer ...d told 3H that told the heads of the Capitol, and right-...The day I'm talking about, ... my album, thinking of marketing schemes .... Capitol pulled on the deal" ...pitol pulled out on the deal." ...m up to try to push the price up or whateve

When in the streets I keep my h...ust ain't known for the weather ...All day long ...ut to get 'em cause the tires come with 'em...Thousand in my pocket, yayo I r...ep my lond clean so the car hops can jock it hit the switch up and down ...Make the bumper drag the ground on the 'Shaw ...Get the hammer ...that yo strap ain't a jammer and as long ...As I watch for the lick i got the switch to make me h... loose niggas broke the gang truce ...euce that hang like a noose ...stop for Mack, it's the same ol' same ol' ... low, twisting like a tornado ...in that surplus gear like the G of the year ...Fuck the hour, it's all about the money and the power ...As I'm rollin' out of control and smoking...Crank up the bumptie bumps 4 gat... so I bang it, make the 20's slide when I s...Old Chevy's to Cadillac...Everybody got a plaque given pub to...Mafia for life individuals and Dam...nd them niggas from the southside ...New school to old school get they rid...In a Rag Top that and a hard top this ...So get you a set of them what we call D...see for yo'self all the bitches they brang ...cut the wheel right to left and make the ass end slide ...Now all the riders ride and ska

Good life, good life yeah ...(Doing 150 on the highway) ...Good life, good life oh ...(In a six gangsta bitch, ...Good life, good life ...(Chunk the deuce out the Coupe, is the fly way) ...Good life, good life ...gates, Texas plates in my driveway) ...Growing up in the ghetto, wasn't no l...Mama's waiting in line, in hours for the government cheese ...rolly get two pairs of socks, and a damn rubix cube ...Motherfuckers be a fool, skipping scho...Old dumb ass nigga, can't pass the ties test ...For this year 2000, I sell my bricks on the internet ...rs right behind me, in that new S-10 ...See we took a few ends, now we ma...For the 2 triple O back in the do', and we living ...It's a lovely day, a lovely day ... trying to stack me a bundle ...When you balling in the jungle, now sometim...Hit the block drop the top, eight 15's of thunder ...Do a song one day, while... you seen me, doing the thing G's do ...made taper fade, on the cover of GQ screaming ...(everybody's living the good life, under the sun) ...Beach house by the docks, candy yacht ...No pouring up of pints, syrup stains on the road ...Need two forms of I.D., to cash this ...Almost wrecked the Vette, doing a hundred kilometers ...So much ice in my mouth, I done cracked the thermometer ...Ninja bikes for the summer, we Southsid...x, you best to take a fucking number ...Might as well call the plumber, they bust ...And be in the basement, with that

Good life, good life yeah...(Doing 150 on the highway)...Good life, good life oh...(In a six gangsta bitch, ...Good life, good life ...(Chunk the deuce out the Coupe, is the fly way)...Good life, good life...gates, Texas plates in my driveway)...Growing up in the ghetto, wasn't no l...Mama's waiting in line, in hours for the government cheese...rolly get two pairs of socks, and a damn rubix cube...Motherfuckers be a fool, skipping scho...Old dumb ass nigga, can't pass the ties test...For this year 2000, I sell my bricks on the internet...rs right behind me, in that new S-10...See we took a few ends, now we ma...For the 2 triple O back in the do', and we living ...It's a lovely day, a lovely day... trying to stack me a bundle...When you balling in the jungle, now sometim...Hit the block drop the top, eight 15's of thunder...Do a song one day, while... you seen me, doing the thing G's do...made taper fade, on the cover of GQ screaming...(everybody's living the good life, under the sun)...Beach house by the docks, candy yacht ...No pouring up of pints, syrup stains on the road...Need two forms of I.D., to cash this ...Almost wrecked the Vette, doing a hundred kilometers...So much ice in my mouth, I done cracked the thermometer...Ninja bikes for the summer, we Southsid...x, you best to take a fucking number...Might as well call the plumber, they bust ...And be in the basement, with that