All my life they told me that I wouldn't.
She can't sing,
we hate rap,
your dreams are too big.
Don't shine, don't speak, you better shrink it.
She's talking on the mic like she's not even singing.
I don't get it, where's the talent?
I hate the accent, who let this happen?
How's she getting?
I ain't rapping,
these haters ain't believing the kid.
But God did.
As
I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I take a look at my life and realize
there's nothing left.
Cause I've been blasting and laughing
so long that even my mama thinks
that my mind is gone.
But I ain't never crossed a man who didn't deserve you.
Me be treated
like a punk, you know this I heard of.
You better watch how you talking and where you
walking.
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk.
Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise.
Look at the situation they got me facing.
I can't live a normal life,
I was raised by the state.
So I gotta be down with the hood team.
Too much television watching,
I've been chasing dreams.
Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away.
I'm living life to a die, but what can I say?
I'm 23 now,
but when I look to see 24,
the way things is going out of.
Oh,
tell me why are we so blind to see
that the ones we hurt are you and me?
Money and the power,
minute after minute, hour after hour.
Everybody's running,
but heaven,
there ain't nothing going on in the kitchen.
But I don't know what's cooking like.
Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise.
Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise.
I guess they can't,
I guess they won't,
I guess they front.
That's where I know my life is.
Been spending most their lives living in the gangsta's paradise.