Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down
And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around
Struggle and life lead on 6 of 13 lines, with confidence and hustle on 5 each. Every line is a lyric. How Long Can It Last supplies three; Murder, Choppin' Blades, Dirty Money, One Day, Diamonds and Wood and Living This Life fill out the rest. The recurring voice is fatalistic and plain: "this dirty game it chose me", a conviction that God didn't put the speaker here to serve fiends, and the sharp note that people frown when you're up and smile when you're down.
Didn't choose this dirty game, this dirty game it chose me
I know God ain't put me down here just to be serving no fiends
Po' children got aspirations and dreams just like the wealthy (wealthy)
But it's hard when that environment you live in ain't healthy (healthy)
People think hustlin is cool (cool), all hustlin is live
They don't understand hustlers only hustlin to survive
"Why You let these killers live and take my homeboy's son away?"
Man if you got kids, show you love 'em 'cause God just might call 'em home
'Cause one day, they're here and, baby, the next day, they're gone
Say, nigga, I keeps my rims clean, shinin' through a dim scene
Got your bitch' pussy wetter than the captain of the swim team
It's all about the candy paint, it's all about the Vogues, man
It's all about the slab, baby, it's all about the hoes
Pitching yayo like Dontrelle Willis (What?), we the trillest
On the mound, I'm holdin that whole South down, I know you feel us
UHH - I wanna go to service
But I ain't been in so long, kinda make me feel nervous (nervous)
Cause they be lookin at me funny
Watchin the plate when I tithe, put in my money (money)
Well, it's Bun B, bitch, and I'm the king of movin' chickens
Not them finger-lickings, stickin' niggas that be trickin'
I'm still Pimp C, bitch, so what the fuck is up?
Puttin' powder on the streets 'cause I got big fuckin' nuts
My man BoBo just lost his baby in a house fire (Oh yeah)
And when I got on my knees that night to pray, I asked God
"Why You let these killers live and take my homeboy's son away?"