[00:08.23] (2Pac) [00:08.54] Get on yo' knees ni**a [00:09.53] Get on yo' knees and pray [00:11.19] Huh, increase the doses, bustin whoever closest [00:14.09] Thug livin, hell or prison, never losin my focus [00:16.89] I'm makin money moves manditory [00:19.26] In a discussion my past records tell a story [00:21.36] Picture ni**az we rushin and still bustin [00:23.13] Til the cops come runnin, duck in abandoned buildings [00:24.94] Ditchin my gun, homeboy the motherf**kin villain [00:28.64] I live the lifestyles of drug dealers, but now legit list [00:31.52] So I laugh til I cry, when the law come get me [00:33.87] No baby momma drama, ni**a miss me, why plant seeds [00:36.79] In a dirty bi**h, waitin to trick me, not the life for me [00:39.80] Livin carefree, til I'm buried - and if they dare me [00:43.24] I'm bustin on ni**az until they scurry, I'm clearly [00:45.80] A man of military means in my artillery [00:49.07] Watchin over me through every murder scene [00:51.36] From adolescence, to my early teens, thought we was gonna die [00:55.27] Sellin dope to all the fiends, at times I wanna cry [00:57.37] And still, we try to change the past, in vain [00:59.93] Never knowin if this game'll last, feelin ashamed [01:02.50] Of cocaine, the product of the devil, am I sellin my soul? [01:05.73] Got tired of small time livin, ni**az tellin me no [01:08.51] I got MINE, f**k THEM OTHER SUCKERS, that's the mentality [01:11.83] Jealous-a*s bustaz, make it hell for us [01:14.33] (Chorus: 2Pac and harmonizing vocals repeat 2X) [01:15.14] Lord, help me change my ways [01:17.75] Show a little mercy on judgment day [01:19.51] It ain't me, I was raised this way [01:22.76] I never let em play me for a busta, make it hell 4 a hustler [01:26.88] (Outlawz) [01:37.56] Now in these last days and times I takes mines so serious [01:40.19] Gotta get that paper quickly and escape the sickness [01:42.77] If I fail, then I suffer, bein broke is hell 4 a hustler [01:45.95] So I stay strugglin and jugglin with all the might I can muster [01:48.78] Since a youngster, been money hungry, moved in [01:51.14] One's five's and ten's was funny money [01:53.42] So I sets my sights bigger, four figures or mo' [01:56.32] Real ni**a fo' sho', out in the cold for dough [01:59.28] What you thought?, lost homies in plenty battles [02:02.37] Last two years shed plenty tears, and I'll send plenty at you [02:05.74] Let me catch you slippin, you soft ni**az is outta here [02:08.66] In case you forgot, we on the same s**t that got us here [02:11.45] (Outlawz) [02:12.54] Yo, to every step I take, every foul I make [02:13.60] Every jail I break, every mill' I ate [02:17.47] Head to head, whoever hustle hardest [02:19.81] On the block duckin charges, ni**a f**k the sergeant [02:22.17] He got a job, all my bottles got a pinch of coke [02:24.94] Listen tho' I'm missin dough I gotta gather mo' [02:27.58] Hell naw, dead blocks with red tops but now a ni**a sell words [02:31.71] For all my young thugs in jail in Jerz [02:34.94] They made it hell 4 a hustler, I bails high as f**k son [02:37.32] Dyin luck none supply us with much guns [02:40.12] I buck one, just to let you know that I can touch ya [02:43.06] Slangin cracks or raps, still hell 4 a hustler [02:45.66] (Chorus) [03:08.15] (2Pac) [03:08.81] No insanity plea for me, I ride the beef til I burn [03:11.97] Sensimilla bar your kids from the lessons I learned [03:14.32] And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social [03:17.49] Ni**az shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em [03:20.23] Try to politic, before I smoke em, like Sun Zu [03:23.12] Ni**az do unto these snitches, before it's done to you [03:25.27] And if the cops come arrest me in the evening [03:28.19] Best believe they comin for my dogs in the mornin [03:30.70] And if I die by a slug, the death of a true thug [03:34.31] Tell me will my ni**az mourn me? Gettin blowed out [03:37.52] High, watch me murder the bird, before he testify [03:40.12] Strikes, walkin close to my third, I live a trouble life [03:43.20] And if you dream be a part of my team [03:45.89] From Long Beach to Queens, drug dealers to ex-fiends [03:48.56] Keep yo' eyes on the prize, ni**a watch for bustaz [03:51.66] Either heaven or jail, it's still hell 4 a hustler [03:54.54] (Chorus) [04:14.11] (2Pac) [04:17.27] This is how we ride [04:20.11] Not knowin if we'll live or die [04:22.12] Catch me rollin with my motherf**kin guns on the side [04:25.34] In case of drama, I'm the first to break wild til they all die [04:29.24] This is how we ride [04:31.52] Not knowin if we'll live or die [04:32.86] Catch me rollin with my motherf**kin guns on the side [04:35.28] In case of drama, I'm the first to break wild [04:39.93] Until they all die, Outlaw [04:41.77] Yes (change my ways) yes [04:44.65] The Black Jesuz guide us through this [04:46.79] Weary weary weary weary [04:49.03] Only God can save us [04:50.66] Nuttin but boss players [04:51.97] Outlawz and thugs [04:53.25]