Gangsta 4 Life

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This is for anybody who ever been through some real shit in they life man

Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life
Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life

I left the hood mayne, 'cause ya the block kills
I knew a couple homies, but now they pop pills
They some street cats, so they ain't got skills
They just move the work, or have ya top peeled
Back ya drug deals in the Lac
We was in the streets with the powder, in the mail sendin packs
When things resort to violence, losin homies back to back
But we don't want our future to be determined by our past
That's why

Evey time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life
Evey time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life

Mommies and daddies on welfare, so they can go shop
How come the streets in ya life keep, hittin road blocks
And the homies always cryin why 'cause her brother got popped
But who you supposed to call when you get shot by a cop
He was a renegade hustla, but in the street life suffered
His soul fell deep with no time to recover
Now it's gunshots and funerals, gang fights the usual
Selling dope fiends the cream makin 'em delusional
Now it started back at seven dodgin bullets from mac 11's
That shotgun blast sent his auntie straight to heaven
But that's how it is when you live in a war zone
Tryna gain respect 'cause you did it on your own
Ya every night smokin, snortin, huffin, poppin, drinkin
What he did during the week was the same shit on the weekend
They said a white cop shot him 'cause he black
Man this shit be fucked up we just want the homie back
So now

Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life
Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life

And if you live in the hood, you tryna die in the hood
Lay ya life down for the set, instead of realizin what's good
Ya I know how you feel, death before dishonor
But military weapons have you turned into a goner
Like man real thugs know, 38 snub nose
It broke my fuckin thumb bone, but bitch it wasn't nothin though
'91 Eldorado coupe
I was hanging out the window you was hopin I don't shoot
You was either banging sets in your clicks or in ya groups
But we all just tryna ball like some youngins playin hoops
450 for the O ya I was gettin loot
Acting like a general supplin for my troops
And you know it used to bother me when someone won the lottery
'Cause we was commitin robberies to battle with our poverty
'Cause there differences in properties between the rich and poor
So are you the one that's gona deal, or the one that's gona score gimme more

Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life
Every time you look in my eyes
I know you see no surprise
The pain that's flowin inside
But I'ma keep it gangsta for life