[D Nice] Aiyyo aiyyo Kris they know the rules Hahahahaha yeah ya don't stop (say what?) A ya don't stop (BDP in the house) a ya don't stop (Check it out check it out...Yo D!) Yo bust ...

Spent my whole life looking for something What it was, I'm not really sure I looked for happiness but only found sorrow Then I realized how to unlock that door yea, yea, yea [Chorus] So you...

[Tony Touch] Well it's the alley cat, puffin on a hoody mack Some say I'm a titere, but yo I ain't all of that Hit you wit a baseball bat if you try to ill though Fuck around you get bucked on the ...

Yeah nigga, drop the top on your muthafu...his how we do it on the West Coast baby...Rollin' down the Four O Five...I ain't being bootsy...Drivin' like I'm in a Hooptee...Keep yo hand on the strap...And take all the craps...Niggas know my steel-lo, all le...But I'm drapped like a ni...'cause I can make that ass d...Make the front pop...And hit the three wheel motion...Hit the freeway...Ride right back to the movies...igh talking back to the screen drinkin' liq... of gettin' richer, I'm livin' that...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...g Stretch represent the real nigga...Shakin' the dice, we roll long,...So the vice wanna follow u...as we clown through the town...But I ain't fallin' yet...And I gotta give a shout ...Tell 'em why the hoes dream...'cause I'm non-stop, and I'm always hustlin'... to make a mill off the time I'm givin'...Trippin', mad, I'm crazy, can't nobo...And I been goin' insane l...I'm about to snap...You know I led a...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Man, I don't worry about the Five-O...ers getting cash up the ass...Don't even ask, why I'm buck wild?...To the young G's comin' up...Don't let the money make you chan...p pumping loud till the crowd bring the top down...Which way do I turn?...I'm strapped...Lost in the storm...I can't turn back wit...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules...Thug Life, y'all know the rules

yo aiyyo Kris they know the rules ... don't stop (BDP in the house) a ya don't s...Get on the mic and do the best you can ...Well, the teacher comes to yo...I inject, force and i...When I hit the mic, suckers hit the deck ...I come correct and practice what I preach ...I don't pimp you or rule you I teach ...Come through the doors and slap up w...Cause, I run their pimp ...When I leave he leaves wit...Shrimp, I got the tartar sauce ...Never underestimate the power of the force ...of the intellectual KRS-On...I don't think yet my ...I stand alone while o...Makin the public believe that they are way up in the sky ...horrify and terrify the super duper rap guy...Well I'm walkin in the streets of Brooklyn...I'm even out there wa...I'm not foolin, cause no, I'm not a fool ...act stupid boy, you know the rules ...act like they don't know the rules ...But yo, I tell you what ...Yo get on the mic and tell em wha...Yo, from off the sidewalk I grab the mic and talk ...eteen-sixty-five in the state of New York ...I slap up crews and r...Lived on the streets about eight...There I got my education an...So when I pick up the microphone I know what I'm sayin ...the curriculum, of the school criteria ...In fact what I learned I found inferior ...I'm not a Muslim but I do support them ...I'm not a Christian, but I won't diss em ...I'm not a Jew, I don't practice Juda...I'm not a Buddhist, b...I don't eat beef pork...You ask about the culture, they talk ...Metaphysics, the science of life ...Understand that I am the breeze ...And the trees, oceans and s...And the be and the D and the P's ...Suckers try it, but I don't buy it ...When I speak you seek to s...And heed the warning boy, you know the rules! ...c (that's right, ya know what?) ...Yo, ya know the rules

a-cake last week on the set"...Within the next few days, potn...Breakin' the rules and regulations...gga not stickin' to the script...And get the jacket put on yo' a...e source, that rat, the head of mice...I know technology now ...I know all I was tryin' to do ...y one step ahead of the law enforcement...You know what that bring? Ch...Nigga don't you know anything over 20 ye...number 2, make sure the product you carry i...(The rules and regulations)...These are the things you need to know (The rules and regulations)...eady got rid of all the evidence...Yeah I got yo' message, yo...And scrape the residue up off the edges...in' be skanless and the skanless might try ...t, come back within the next day or two...I don't need no cowar...I don't sell coke no more dude, I sell mescaline...(The rules and regulations)... pushin' numbers on the dial-tone...a swig of my 40 but I forgot I had the cap still on...I said I'm cool, but ain't t...d up a Newport, but I accidentally lit it...some strange reason I had a feelin'...Now I'm feelin' sweaty,...ll of a sudden, now I'm slee-py...ey find you? Around the corner from Applebe...co, right there off the freeway...Guess that's the consequences when y...Shit, next time I bet I take my drink to the bathroom with me...yo' soul if you hit the pen...(The rules and regulations)

I hate to say the feelin´s gone ...But I just can´t keep ho...I hope that´s someth...I didn´t mean to do ...I should have known from the start ...I just couldn´t put ...Sometimes I just don´t know ...What rules my heart ...What rules my heart ...What rules my heart ...What rules my heart ...I know the hurt will heal in t...I didn´t mean to do ...I should have known from the very start ...I just couldn´t put ...Sometimes I just don´t know ...I just don´t know what rules my heart ...I never ever wanted t

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ovely painter), and I jus love it man (Lo...I love paintin' these pictures for the hood, you dig ...(that's where I'm at Eastside) ...I used to hurry up an...Like I ain't worried for the jail scene (fuck co...'Til I got knocked, yeah o...I was young and was r...Yeah I'm hungry and reckle...Cause I got nuttin to lose, suttin to prove, I'm screamin' EASTSID...While I dump on you dudes (...So these rules I abide by ...I'm duckin' shots on a driveby, finger the cops, yeah when the...As I polly wit' my team ...We on the scene rugged ...Fuck it, I scream out, yo I'm uh G, fuck it ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...vely Daze man. When I say Lovely Daze I'm talkin' bout.) ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...h that freedom. You know explorin' the ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...You know how kids scheme (ho...I'm some paranoid shi...Its kinda scary I carry the 4 fifth (who want i...e issues with views I got (uh huh) ...I carry pistols when I cruise my block (le...Its uh issue if I cruise ya block ... dogs 'ill get you, know the rules or not (wut up now ...caught slippin', no rules or parameters (wher...Fuck the crews, fuck the cameras (fuck polic...I tell you now, ain't...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...ne got lovlier, you know. We done did the hustlin' thing) ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ...(We done had fun on the streets. Now we entered the game and we gettin ...ely Daze like this, I miss I miss ... lovlier than that? I'm tellin you I'm loving this shit....ely Daze like this, I miss.. ...Bet it all to the dice game (yea) ...Bet I brawl wit' my light...I get it on like I'm Ty-sane (Lets Bra... niggaz deceased (R.I.P.) ...I shed a tear and pou...r to raw spliffs of the leaf (and get high)...rayer, Lord where's the relief (my dudes) ...I'm burnin' purple ju...And peep the circle Ill tell you...And fuck the cops, we bustin' ou...We from the block we love our S... she give me brain, I'm puffin' my lime ...I was rippin and runnin while I'm grippin my gun (o...And I use to, play wit my heat I was waitin to bust ...And I say, fuck the police they better take me in cuffs (til I go) ...Cause I'm in, love wit the streets yea I'm shakin my nuts (h...Yeah, get in the party have our guns... we bustin guns off the roof (you got that)...uthful offenders on the stoop gettin bent u...One of the pictures that he st...As I'm cruisin down the strip of ghettos Me

At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot... that you loved me. I was yours to comman...p down in my heart, I know our love could neve...p down in my heart, I know our love will never...At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot

At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot... that you loved me. I was yours to comman...p down in my heart, I know our love could neve...p down in my heart, I know our love will never...At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot

Well it's the alley cat, puffin o...Some say I'm a titere, but yo I ain't all of that...d you get bucked on the hill bro...ny Toca, rollin wit the joker... in full effect wit the mota... nuthin changed but the date, so fuck wit j...Expect me to cut the cake, it's much to ...I'm takin it all, send you to the back of the line...atchin you react to the rhyme...Me packin the nine, nah that's a ...'Cause if I'm forced to pull out, I'mma blow out ya bra... feel, never go wit the grain...Punk nigga, you know the rules...ame ain't Ricky but I'm livin the vida loca...Serial rhyme killa, the paper spinner...Eatin the pussy sup, havin yo...n you loose it over the years like a winner...I can't abuse like a picketer, I send it a flow, con...We into the party, wit bounce a...I'd rather be open yo...in't nothin sadder, the Mad Hatter...eddar, keep climbin the ladder...u try follow after, I'm sorry to shatter ... niggas will follow the beam...ittle pressure, but the addresser...Keep the punk nigga bitch up...You rhyme on the mic like you ate a ...k up your brain off the ground wit the vacuum cleaner...I have you ass up wit the sharp cleaver, through the receiver...hyme weaver, follow the leader...Shit's off the fuckin meter, drum ...er, while we puffin the cold 'hebba...Muthafuckas think I fell for the okie doke...ote me loke, 'cause the joke's on you...Soul Assassins in the house, you better h...You know the rules

I'm puffin this Cohib...nd, keep slippin on the woodgrain wheel...I pump bass for y'all...Nah, I'm not a dealer, I'm a poet at large...We in the wind with the roof back, lettin' the breeze hit us...The bathrobe on with sw...visit to whoever on the hit list...motherfuckers y'all know the rules)...-Hop my main bitch, I got a few on the side...The game stitched y'all I'm doin' my job...on you threat, well I ain't shakin' yet...From the block where the crooked cops killin...Children, in the hood gettin' rocked...nd brothers, 'cross the board gettin' knocked by the millions...The stress, got me ignitin' the potent marijuana le...You feel the music know I'm over there probab...Pimpin on the same system that fo...I got the soul of a young Sam Cooke when I spit...It's all to the good shorty 'gwan d...motherfuckers y'all know the rules) yeah...Yeah, when I'm crusin' in my vehicle, the chase harass me...They want to know where the drugs guns and cash...I know it's crowded at the top, cause I'm on the tip...hat's as high up at the top, as a brother c...And how I do it make a lot of...s fine, re-gizzlin' I'm back for mine...ll gettin' tired of the same ol' shine...And I'm calm, calculated ...The way I'm operatin' what is...'s not a thang when I lower the gradient lens frame...I'm cooler than Clyde...I exercise 'til a muscle build, breakin' the chains...And I'm cool...motherfuckers y'all know the rules)

At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot... that you loved me. I was yours to comman...p down in my heart, I know our love could neve...p down in my heart, I know our love will never...At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot...Now I know the rules. Find yourself anot

I'd like to know the rules on which this game ...I know of no game more fitting than the age old game of cri...Now God laid down the rules of life when he wro...cket those ten same rules shall apply. ...Now the Devil has a player and he's called the Demon Bowler, ...And you know that that's not cri...t at all times, let the Bible be your guide...Beware the Demon bowler. ...The Devil takes the weak in spirit and ...our sights and play the straight and narrow

Well it's the alley cat, puffin o...Some say I'm a titere, but yo I ain't all of that ...d you get bucked on the hill bro ...ny Toca, rollin wit the joker ... in full effect wit the mota ... nuthin changed but the date, so fuck wit j...Expect me to cut the cake, it's much to ...I'm takin it all, send you to the back of the line ...atchin you react to the rhyme ...Me packin the nine, nah that's a ...'Cause if I'm forced to pull out, I'mma blow out ya bra... feel, never go wit the grain ...Punk nigga, you know the rules ...ame ain't Ricky but I'm livin the vida loca ...Serial rhyme killa, the paper spinner ...Eatin the pussy sup, havin yo...n you loose it over the years like a winner...I can't abuse like a picketer, I send it a flow, con...We into the party, wit bounce a...I'd rather be open yo...in't nothin sadder, the Mad Hatter ...eddar, keep climbin the ladder ...u try follow after, I'm sorry to shatter ... niggas will follow the beam ...ittle pressure, but the addresser ...Keep the punk nigga bitch up...You rhyme on the mic like you ate a ...k up your brain off the ground wit the vacuum cleaner ...I have you ass up wit the sharp cleaver, through the receiver ...hyme weaver, follow the leader ...Shit's off the fuckin meter, drum ...er, while we puffin the cold 'hebba ...Muthafuckas think I fell for the okie doke ...ote me loke, 'cause the joke's on you ...Soul Assassins in the house, you better h...You know the rules

At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. ...I was yours to comman...p down in my heart, I know our love could neve...p down in my heart, I know our love will never...At last I've awakened to see ...All I can do is pack up a...Now I know the rules. ...Now I know the rules.

I'm an alien from out...I'm a cyber-girl with...(A product of the man, I'm a product of the man)...I'm a savior without ...On the run cause they? hit...And I think to myself... getting at me (and the police are after yo...And all the sirens go ...The sirens go ...Oh baby uh you know the rules...I love you and I won't take no?...n with guns were at the door...Baby, I hear the sirens go...'re coming now (You know the rules)...Baby, I hear the sirens go...You know the rules