E-40:

I grit my teeth to keep release, kkep my fatih and hope (hope)

Need to stop stressing before I have a stroke

Up in lower development housin' (housin'), talk and turmoil (turmoil)

Food in our refrigerator never had a chance to spoil

You know why? (Why?) Wasn't rich wasn't poor (wasn't poor)

You know why? (Do you know why?) cause it's the boss player from next

door

(from next door)

Sleepin' on the floor, hectic, (hectic), but that's expected

B-Legit:

When I was young, I never could afford no Nikes, and everybody else

had

brand new bikes

I use to hike to school, in the rain with fools, 13 deep in the ghetto

streets (in the ghetto streets)

Hook:

LeVitti:I've struggled and I've strived

Suga T:Struggled and I've strived

LeVitti:Been a hustler all my life

Suga T:Been a hustler all my life

Both:I ain't rich and I ain't poor, did more dirt than you would know

LeVitti: I've struggled and I've strived, strived

D-Shot:

In 1984 was the year for the Shot to step through the door (through

the

door)

That's when my daddy walked away from my mama (mama)

She tried to work it out but it wasn't no stoppin' (stoppin')

Barely paying the rent, she had four mouths to feed, hot water and

corn

bread (corn bread)

Watching the stress while my momma straight handlin' things (handlin'

things) ?

Suga-T:

Coming up wasn't easy for the no should I be (c'mon)

Living dad to day depended on the first of fifteen

I had 2 kids to raise from a teenage love

You couldn't tell me a thing because I knew what was up

Hook

B-Legit:

I brought it down the block, crooked a