I Love da Streets

[00:06.09] This might sound crazy but
[00:08.52] I love suffering
[00:10.68] I love struggle, I love pain
[00:13.25] 'Cause what don't kill you make you stronger, nigga
[00:16.72] And I'm as strong as they come
[00:19.51] I love the streets
[00:20.62] 'Cause that's what made me me
[00:22.29] Without the streets, baby, I couldn't eat
[00:24.57] I love the streets
[00:25.75] And although we was poor
[00:27.34] Without struggle, boy, you can't grow
[00:29.51] I love the streets
[00:30.75] And even though we sold drugs
[00:32.71] And paid for it in blood
[00:34.58] I love the streets
[00:35.66] No matter what happen to me
[00:37.49] My hood or your hood, it's all good
[00:39.64] I love the streets
[00:40.18] Right now my life don't mean an awful lot
[00:42.42] If I died today, who think the world gon' stop?
[00:45.05] There's a million niggas just like me on the block
[00:47.56] It's either entertainment or sports or sellin' that rock
[00:50.11] Think the judge gon' take your word over a cop's?
[00:52.65] You be just another nigga that they stick in a box
[00:54.95] But we in the streets, what other choice we got?
[00:57.53] Than to go hard, give them niggas all we got
[01:00.38] Fuck that, as long as I got breath in my lungs
[01:02.54] I'm livin' my life, waitin' for my death to come
[01:05.30] If you made it out the hood, then God blessed you, son
[01:07.52] But if your fam there, you ain't out less than one
[01:10.24] Gotta spread it 'round, nigga, that's what's real to me
[01:12.78] Turn on the news, swear this shit be killin' me
[01:15.26] Not from the streets, probably ain't feelin' me
[01:17.83] You can take me out the hood, but it's still in me
[01:21.03] I love the streets
[01:21.08] 'Cause that's what made me me
[01:22.65] Without the streets, baby, I couldn't eat
[01:24.85] I love the streets
[01:26.17] And although we was poor
[01:27.62] Without struggle, boy, you can't grow
[01:29.81] I love the streets
[01:31.11] And even though we sold drugs
[01:33.14] And paid for it in blood
[01:34.86] I love the streets
[01:35.92] No matter what happen to me
[01:37.82] My hood or your hood, it's all good
[01:39.93] I love the streets
[01:40.91] Move this fake, I come through with the ghoulish face
[01:43.07] And take small steps, big moves I make
[01:45.42] I could put it to your face, then choose your fate
[01:47.93] Every day Thanksgiving for me to place
[01:50.43] Yeah, we do grace, God bless it all
[01:52.98] From the mess hall to the boulevard with the dead dogs
[01:55.75] We cough and spit, guns they speak
[01:57.89] The same language as the bullets, who talkin' shit?
[02:00.44] Yo, 'Pac, if you listen, they got the game twisted
[02:03.29] Talkin' 'bout the hate you gave little infants
[02:05.77] Fuck everybody, here today
[02:07.68] Place your ways and you fade away like the memory of Gotti
[02:10.88] Take it back to '90, last year of high school
[02:13.30] Didn't graduate though, still had to make dough
[02:16.13] Ask my word, word for word, I understood it all
[02:18.77] Had big dreams on the hood and stars
[02:21.36] I love the streets
[02:21.36] 'Cause that's what made me me
[02:22.92] Without the streets, baby, I couldn't eat
[02:25.14] I love the streets
[02:26.42] And although we was poor
[02:28.07] Without struggle, boy, you can't grow
[02:30.12] I love the streets
[02:31.46] And even though we sold drugs
[02:33.49] And paid for it in blood
[02:35.14] I love the streets
[02:36.29] No matter what happen to me
[02:38.15] My hood or your hood, it's all good
[02:40.26] I love the streets
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