Life We Chose

To my niggas (huh), we all we got Let's hold it down though, you know However it's gone go down This what we gotta deal with, you know, yo It's the life we chose, where friends become foes And the dough'll get you killed quicker than you know This is the life we chose, brinks, fakes, snakes and hoes And the only way out is death or goin broke This the life we chose, ain't too many happy endings That's why it ain't too many happy niggas in it And I'll admit it, this life is fucked up, but yo (but yo) This life is the only life I know, uh-uh Gold bathtubs, makin love to my queen Get my back rubbed, Chardonnay, rollin up green Statues, marble floors, rare paintings on the wall My lifestyles like the Forbes magazine Closets, full of rockets and submachines Take this nigga out the projects, and his thug team Yo, we cruise past street lights, ill rides Mr.Child, both coast with the most loud toast Kilicos roast yaw'll folks, keep yaw'll dyin Cause it's hard to fuck around when we dealin with science My enemies got money, so yaw'll should watch how I play it They never know we enemies until they hear me say it Till they kids on the phone sayin “Please daddy pay it” High class elegance, you respect or you hist You go against, you'd rather piss on an electrical fence It's strategic, how these niggas want you to think You be surprise who be the one that put ou to sleep While you stink, yo these streets don't allow you to blink You get shot wit, by lead, comin out wit ya mink Bow ties and tuxedos, bust eagles, dumb drugs and acid Then they rush wit the reco It's hard fuckin wit niggas you hope you can trust You a fool if ya main bitch is easy to fuck And you got money, is these hoes greedy or what Shit is devious, ex-friends, what, and you stuck It's the life we chose, where friends become foes And the dough'll get you killed quicker than you know This is the life we chose, brinks, fakes, snakes and hoes And the only way out is death or goin broke This the life we chose, ain't too many happy endings That's why it ain't too many happy niggas in it And I'll admit it, this life is fucked up, but yo (but yo) This life is the only life I know, uh-uh What's love? when you don't give ya man a nuff dough He wanna stick you What's love? you got beef, nobody rollin wit you What's love? you locked up an ya family don't care Is love a four letter word that deceives the air What's real? When you know ya man's girl is a hoe And you don't even let him know cause you fucked her before What's real? When you talk behind a man's back Then you see him and give him dap, now explain that What's trust? When they separate the case When you're at ya court date, ya co-d can't lookin ya face What's trust? When ya keep ya wife away from ya man And he never crossed you and you claimin he's fam What's trust, When you get bust, ya niggas don't retaliate They blaze purple haze wit him the next day God for-bid one of my niggas get hit, I'ma go haywire Won't hesitate, I'ma spray fire But everybody's different, you won't know how you'll react Till hearts of men change as time goes on, who's wrong? You was hungry when you stuck through, he came back to buck you Who's wrong? Foul all ya life, now ya ninety, on ya death bed You regret being grimy What's lust? To bust nut What's a thug? A ghetto child raised around drugs Till he's old enough to bust slugs Then what's jail? The rehabilitate or to make a nigga worse When he come home to catch another case Life's about decision, you chose it, you gotta live it You did it? Heaven or hell or prison Who knows when ya clock'll stop tickin Get ya weight up, save up, before it's over neighbor I told ya, you getting older player, look at those who gave up It's the life we chose, where friends become foes And the dough'll get you killed quicker than you know This is the life we chose, brinks, fakes, snakes and hoes And the only way out is death or goin broke This the life we chose, ain't too many happy endings That's why it ain't too many happy niggas in it And I'll admit it, this life is fucked up, but yo (but yo) This life is the only life I know, uh-uh