[ti:The Hard Way]
[ar:JT Tha Bigga Figga/San Quinn/D-M.O.E/Seff Tha Gaffla]
[al:What We Known Fo]
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[00:00.00]The Hard Way (Explicit) - Get Low Playaz/JT Tha Bigga Figga/San Quinn/D-Moe/Seff Tha Gaffla
[00:03.83]It's a hot summer day in the year of 84'
[00:05.98]Fresh out of summer school headed for the store
[00:07.91]Watching the o G's standing out getting rich
[00:10.08]Slanging the fat brown bags of the good sh*t
[00:12.00]D**e is out but I really ain't seen it though
[00:14.10]D**e fiends smoking the sh*t by the corner store
[00:16.11]Broke as f**k kinda bummy with nappy hair
[00:18.15]But what can I say when a playa's on welfare
[00:20.19]Life is hard and I'm only 13
[00:22.16]Always on a prowl always on a scheme
[00:24.14]There wasn't nothing to do but have fun
[00:26.10]Wait for the dark then creep to emporium
[00:28.27]Get the t I get the guess shirts
[00:30.34]Get the fresh couch break for the turf
[00:32.34]Doing it boley never in fear
[00:34.39]Getting they punk a** for about a year
[00:36.38]Until I got called went to the hall
[00:38.49]Writing on the wall waiting for a hair call
[00:40.54]Released to moms what can I say
[00:42.43]Off to sears the very next day
[00:44.41]Now sears is easier cuz it's in the area
[00:46.60]Walk to the back of the rack then carried the
[00:48.61]Sh*t back to the stolen car
[00:50.61]Drive and park by the house is not too far
[00:52.73]My gear was fat but still no money though
[00:54.78]Talked to my homey then got fronted so
[00:56.64]Stacking my sh*t hustling cash
[00:58.82]Gotta get out gave him his half
[01:00.84]Hooked up with a friend oh we started booming
[01:02.49]Then we go to some o's then I went solo
[01:04.77]Stacking my pay getting it on
[01:06.87]Got myself a beeper and a cellular phone
[01:08.83]A donkey roll a twenty-two
[01:10.98]Jumped on my bike headed for school
[01:12.90]Locked up my sh*t cuz the fools be ganking
[01:15.02]A young ni**a pimping that benjamin franklin
[01:16.70]So I walked the halls wishing the merrier
[01:19.08]Hooked up with a freak by the cafeteria
[01:21.00]Hair was long pretty with butt
[01:23.15]I told the freak I was about to cut
[01:24.84]So call me at eight and don't be late
[01:27.05]When I left the school there was a big mistake
[01:29.14]So I jumped on my bike and headed for the set
[01:31.23]With a pocketful of rocks ah man I regret
[01:32.96]For not staying in school for just doing my work
[01:35.16]Getting chased by the task now I feel like a jerk
[01:37.19]So I'm on the run and I better run fast
[01:39.16]Cuz if I don't they're gonna beat my a**
[01:41.46]Hit a quick cut run by the ave
[01:43.55]Go to the valley you know I gotta laugh
[01:45.52]Jogged to the third floor running the d**e spot
[01:47.27]A playa too quick a young brotha can't get caught
[01:49.70]B**ch want credit better go to the bank
[01:51.40]Then my homey walked in with the straight-laced dank
[01:53.61]Two young playas getting high on the couch
[01:55.72]In a spot at a d**e fiend's house
[01:57.62]Two hours passed now it must be cool
[01:59.54]Cuz I gotta make money f**k going back to school
[02:01.41]Wrapped up for the crime now I gotta do time
[02:03.73]But when I'm out I'll be back on the grind
[02:05.59]All my homies kept flipping and the man kept tripping
[02:07.79]But me jt I'm a victim of the system
[02:10.00]Sh*t got thick but what can I say
[02:11.65]In the life of a player but that is the hard way
[02:14.06]
[02:22.16]Now it's 92' as you can see
[02:23.93]So I gotta get paid from the r-a-p
[02:25.92]I was in the d**e game now I'm in the rap game
[02:28.01]But I gotta get paid so f**k the fame
[02:30.06]I'm a tell ta it goes something like this
[02:32.26]By any means necessary I'm getting my grits
[02:34.23]Here's a little something by the man
[02:36.15]He's always scheming up a plan
[02:38.24]Always trying to say which way is right
[02:40.23]Always trying to force us to the way of life
[02:42.22]Of robbing killing straight d**e dealing
[02:44.46]Young niggas running around trying to be villians
[02:46.19]So they offer us minimum wage
[02:48.63]Knowing damn well we're gonna get the 12 gauge
[02:50.71]To go outside and pull a jack or a caper
[02:52.70]Hoping that we make front page of the paper
[02:54.66]Extra extra black brotha dead
[02:56.70]Shot in the head by a cop named Fred
[02:58.46]When you read the paper you know it's a damn lie
[03:00.86]Talk about justifiable homicide
[03:02.83]Then they say we no good at all
[03:04.70]And if we are for just raps and basketball
[03:06.80]Niggas ain't sh*t niggas all lazy
[03:08.74]All they do is f**k go to jail and have babies
[03:11.02]Sh*t I'm not that ni**a
[03:12.94]I'm jt the one and only bigga figga
[03:14.78]That's one of the reasons why I'm doing my own thang
[03:16.82]Now I know you've heard the song so mind your own mane
[03:19.09]And you'll be fine and you be cool
[03:20.81]And all you young brothas you better stay in school
[03:22.86]Quit running around trying to be the neighborhood jacker
[03:25.04]Better go to recess and eat some cheese and crackers
[03:26.96]Before you find yourself laying up on a tombstone
[03:29.13]Gonna be there forever cuz that is your home
[03:31.21]No more TV and no more nintendo
[03:33.23]No more bikes and no more friends bro
[03:35.32]You better wake up before it's too late
[03:37.23]Before you find yourself standing out in heaven's gate
[03:39.20]Cuz you trying to get in but no my friend
[03:41.20]Cuz ya die or committed a sin
[03:43.23]Trying to peel a cap but ya got your cap peeled
[03:45.31]Now your mother's outside wondering why you got killed
[03:47.50]Use better judgment in the game you play
[03:49.45]In the life of a black man but that is the hard way