Turn it up a little bit Yea Yea How U Living? Day to day, check to check Hustle to hustle, tiptoeing with the noose around your neck Or steady loading up the TEC Good self respect in short supply But 101 ways to get high Big boys don't cry My old girl left town without even a 'bye' No surprise, too much time, too many lies C'est la vie, now I'm free, fish in the sea Words you say but don't believe Like when I pray "Oh please" Missing a forest for the trees Eat, shit, sleep, lie in a box Spent half my life watching clocks Hands creeping like rats in the walls I got kids in the hall But it ain't funny when they sellin' like a mall When creditors call trying to squeeze blood from stones Switching off my cell phone Student loans growing like cancer in my bones Hollow man, all I got is grams Friendships is sham, puts a nigga in a jam Even my fam got agendas hidden like anagrams Play it again Sam, blunts I Bogart NYC take your heart Rat race, On your mark Let the big .45 spark That's the cause for tryin' to whore us Leave opponents porous, thin skinned God's son Horus, mistress Hathor Back seat of a Taurus Tyrannosaurus lawyers eat cases Like the Ox eat faces Spend a night inside, tell me this country ain't racist Be on suicide watch, no laces Or walk the streets faceless Always in the wrong places Out here we dueling at ten paces Life is nasty, brutish, and short So give another mo'fuckin Newport That's how I'm livin', see you in court Since I was at my mother's knee She told me I could be Whatever I wanted to be And I don't know when I stopped believing, maybe '93 Going wherever this life take me If it's a dream somebody wake me Sickening to watch niggas cop pleas Nobody wants to be free Rather watch TV and smoke trees Pass the Izm to the left, Communism Got me staring at the wall like I got x-ray vision You want to learn the first rule? You'd know if you spent a day in your life See the future voices whisperin' Remind myself not to listen Like Pablo built my own prison Me and death been tongue kissin' One day I'ma turn up missin' Turn life into an impossible mission By the time this tape self destruct I'm in the cut Don't act like you know Just keep your mouth shut You want to learn the first rule? You'd know if you spent a day in your life. You never open your mouth 'till you know what the shot is