nathon Aaron Steel, to the parents of Will...the name stuck. So when my brother was born...from the first time when I ... just didn't fit in to my ...father's eye. To him, my brother cou...frequent to the point where I w...ing back, it's hard to imagine we came from the same paren... my father as well, to ever even ...ties tried his best to encourage me. For I...t. He often told me when I was born an angel... grew older I began to ...d, true or not, and when it came ...to religion was over-zealous to say the least. A mi...omen I sought after when I was older ...ng like her. In the pain of youth, the miser...ything I did or was to become. I shall exp...ity. The mirror was to ...ne place I could go to see inside myself, to find love, in an ot...anyone I wanted to be - one hundred pe...t even bring myself to go to his funeral. My ago... couldn't come face to face with him that one last time. My failure to ... on, nothing seemed to matter, especially ...town city street in one ...way to vent all my frustrations and all my pain - completely opened... found myself going to the mirror for coun...his my songs seemed to write themselves an...sic but I was going to have to get out of this ...backwards town I was in if I was ever going to succeed. I was 16 g...ctly what was going to happen to me - I was gonna ...die. So I ran away to the big city with t...and a chance for me to finally live and do...bly intense. It was to be my ...or two years trying to get a break in musi...a record and that's when I ran across a deli... The music business to Charlie was nothing... a sacrificial lamb to be led to slaughter and the w...ould lovingly refer to as 'The Chainsaw'. ...ly whore themselves to commercialism, the ...music comes to die. And through him I learned everything I needed to know ...hings I didn't want to know. He said he ...y. He introduced me to an ...ont of my apartment when a gypsy woman passe...more than happy to say yes. She reveal...to tell me of my past in which she went into great detail about the pain ...struggle to succeed and fulfill...topped and I wanted to know of my future ...and pleaded for her to go on and finally s

All the pain got me on some migr... got 2 or 3 dollars to my name... 25 automatic added to the caper...ell you how we fin' to get paid... order take out and when we see the driver...Head to the notorious South...One weapon to the four of us... and put the pistol to his nose...Let's go to the DMV and get a I...'Cause when we was spooked as s...To the game we rockin'...o po never know who to true blame...he system it's hard to catch...Time to get this paper...Time to get this paper...And when they call your name...No family to run to I'm 22... fuck am I supposed to do...made her feel close to me...When I came to the crib niggaz cou...I came back with a big bag...ob I ever had I had to get on the first da...I find out how to pimp on the system...And when I'm workin' late ni...takin' all day long to mop the kitchen shi...I'm not the one to kiss ass for the to...I got mouths to feed, dawg, I gots to get it...Hell yeah, you down to roll my nigga?...ell yeah, you ready to get your hands dirt...show that you ready to ride...We got to get over...show that you ready to ride...We got to get over

All the pain got me on some migr... got 2 or 3 dollars to my name... 25 automatic added to the caper...ell you how we fin' to get paid... order take out and when we see the driver...Head to the notorious South...One weapon to the four of us... and put the pistol to his nose...Let's go to the DMV and get a I...'Cause when we was spooked as s...To the game we rockin'...o po never know who to true blame...he system it's hard to catch...Time to get this paper...Time to get this paper...And when they call your name...No family to run to I'm 22... fuck am I supposed to do...made her feel close to me...When I came to the crib niggaz cou...I came back with a big bag...ob I ever had I had to get on the first da...I find out how to pimp on the system...And when I'm workin' late ni...takin' all day long to mop the kitchen shi...I'm not the one to kiss ass for the to...I got mouths to feed, dawg, I gots to get it...Hell yeah, you down to roll my nigga?...ell yeah, you ready to get your hands dirt...show that you ready to ride...We got to get over...show that you ready to ride...We got to get over

(Talk to 'em, Lyfe) ...(Talk to 'em, Lyfe)...When most niggas had a nine to five shit...ock, we making nine to five grand...We tryin' to hot wire cars and b...Turn soft to hard, drop it in Gl...t of money stop the pain...'Cause I don't like to ask for shit...When I came in the game with a ...t telling lil' kids to go that route...Being grown, tryin' to flirt...w is one thing: how to get paid (Yeah!)...hy everybody tryin' to bring me down?...f me they respect H-town...Look, I was here when y'all wasn't around...hy everybody tryin' to bring me down?...f me they respect H-town...Look, I was here when y'all wasn't around...l you you were born to die...mama - she was born to cry...oman - she was born to lie

Pleasure and pain in every aspect of ...I'm the answer to yo prayers if you p...When I'm, climbin' the l...shments are nothin' to gain ... flames, put niggas to shame ...drama ain't nothin' to me ... don't want yo mama to grieve ...n' but you frontin' to me ...e y'all kissin' ass when I came to leave ...at the fuck is fame to me? ...arten, you's a lame to me ...he niggas what they came to see ...self where they aim to be ...y my style, decided to try it yourself

He came into town in the early spring...To work with my daddy ...s hot in the summer when he said goodbye ...He just had to come back and try to explain ...orrow, mountains of pain ...orrow, mountains of pain

Pleasure and pain in every aspect of ...I'm the answer to yo prayers if you p...When I'm, climbin' the l...shments are nothin' to gain... flames, put niggas to shame...drama ain't nothin' to me... don't want yo mama to grieve...n' but you frontin' to me...e y'all kissin' ass when I came to leave...at the fuck is fame to me?...arten, you's a lame to me...he niggas what they came to see...self where they aim to be...y my style, decided to try it yourself

promise tonight not to do no harm...roll their way over town...Heartache and pain came pouring down like... back from where he came...And when the hardest part is...Next to mine

It ain't hard to tell ...You start to tappin and snappin ...k the Gladys Knight to the next Morris Day...times, I might want to hit em hard and say...turn to your friend and say...as too fast for you to bust it ...So pay attention to how the Smooth Oper...'t care if you step to me in three flocks ...Then I apply pain just like a migrain...So when one tries to battle I'm like, ho...to prove to another rapper that... in the days I used to call you Sundullah ...w Black Ceaser that came to town ...with one purpose - to make you get down ...I start to flow, slow, and the...in what I'm creatin to straighten MC's ... Dragon+ as I start to raggin ... your seat and jump to this ...to avoid crucial poiso...eachin the children to follow the ...to my man Music Mike, ...And to my man Larry, you g...and to my man Ant Live, yo...and to my man Big Chuck, y...And to my man Danny, you g...And to my main man Sauce, ...and to my man Bobby V, you...and to my cousin '95, you ...To my brother the Lil'...And to my man Tyrone, you

(Ain't it hard when you're all alone in...here's no time left to borrow ...As they came to town to face another showdo...nders, will you try to ...will never kill the pain ...r later we all have to die?

. Players (soldiers to the game you know?)...tter recognize game when it's in your face b...p the area I wanted to cut the fuckin' cop... street powder back to flippin' flower ...Young enough to be my daughter ...My posse use to flip her like a qua...To state to my man for man slau...itch recognize game when it's in your face ...You think the town rid of Short? ...Use to be a want to but now I'm old sch...And even when I came up I fucked with sa...Say what up to the S.P. crooked I....Don't get to close to me ...fucker they suppose to be ...ook in the eyes and when you see me I be har...eal nigga gotta lie to kick it for? ...s and pimps feel my pain

. Players (soldiers to the game you know?)...tter recognize game when it's in your face b...p the area I wanted to cut the fuckin' cop... street powder back to flippin' flower ...Young enough to be my daughter ...My posse use to flip her like a qua...To state to my man for man slau...itch recognize game when it's in your face ...You think the town rid of Short? ...Use to be a want to but now I'm old sch...And even when I came up I fucked with sa...Say what up to the S.P. crooked I....Don't get to close to me ...fucker they suppose to be ...ook in the eyes and when you see me I be har...eal nigga gotta lie to kick it for? ...s and pimps feel my pain

wit the pill to pay the piper, plus..., in the rain or in pain...Down to be picked by anyone... felt, he could do, to make this an effect...ause I know, I used to flow wit the bro... didn't mind I used to read him his own he...Temas lost to him he went right t...onships for a small town bro...That's bound to go pro...Streak of lightning when he breaks loose..."...ey just required me to have the game that ...w cars and G's come to our school please...Went to college four years ...But when it came to his life he didn't ......cause he took it to the air...The fall began when Mickey Mack fell...Assistant to the assistant coach...Then he resorted to a stick up kid...To those hypocrites wh...ls without the will to develop his mind

. Players (soldiers to the game you know?)...tter recognize game when it's in your face b...p the area I wanted to cut the fuckin' cop... street powder back to flippin' flower ...Young enough to be my daughter ...My posse use to flip her like a qua...To state to my man for man slau...itch recognize game when it's in your face ...You think the town rid of Short? ...Use to be a want to but now I'm old sch...And even when I came up I fucked with sa...Say what up to the S.P. crooked I....Don't get to close to me ...fucker they suppose to be ...ook in the eyes and when you see me I be har...eal nigga gotta lie to kick it for? ...s and pimps feel my pain

it's what they need to know nigga... aim kinda straight when it's time to pump...I bring the pump when it's time to pump...ight from a crooked town...my arms and my legs to the game I'm ahead ... long as nigga paid when he came...Young Wayne and the pain and the stain still