You can't change the world, man, you gotta change yourself You can't, cause they not coming for you, you don't need the help
When you coming from the hood where people pick and choose You better stay focused, never get confused Man, my whole life changed, thinkin' I'm a muse You know the whole price change, you better pay your dues If you do or don't, it's a will and must We can make a bond with our loyalty and trust
All I needed was the guys, I put it on the five Coming from the field on the eight, we them guys I don't f*ck with the snakes or the fakes or the slimes Be the ones that you hate in your face all the time
I just wanna be better, I took my time and wrote this letter I told myself, I just hope you clever Don't you ever let nobody break your spirit And tell you that you can't share it, don't you hear it
They say hate is the work of the evil, he the first to deceive you Drop a bomb at the drop of the needle In my mind, they just plotting to meet you To tell the truth, they was plotting to leave you
You can't change the world, man, you gotta change yourself Cause they not coming for you, you don't need the help When you coming from the hood where people pick and choose You better stay focused, never get confused Man, my whole life changed, thinkin' I'm a muse You know the whole price change, you better pay your dues If you do or don't, it's a will and must We can make a bond with our loyalty and trust Most niggas can't trust them Cause they plot to survive You can see the hate in they eyes, had to read between the lines
You a snake in disguise, niggas tryna prey on my demise We ain't never really had shit From the struggle as a youngin, I was damaged I had to shuffle through the jungle just to manage Yeah, times was hard, my niggas might rob your car And pull off cause they sliding off We toast up like Mazel Tov A couple shots knock the bottle off You better duck like you Donald Duck Cause you don't want my whole block involved
You can't change the world, man, you gotta change yourself Cause they not coming for you, you don't need the help When you coming from the hood where people pick and choose You better stay focused, never get confused Man, my whole life changed, thinkin' I'm a muse You know the whole price change, you better pay your dues If you do or don't, it's a will and must We can make a bond with our loyalty and trust
With the honest, you know, the hood, blah, blah, blah They don't care about our community, you know what I mean? Listen to the words that people say in they lyrics And tell me if that's some real shit, if that's real to you, you know what I mean? Listen to what they say, don't just bob your head to the beat, peep the game And listen to what I'm saying and hold us accountable for it, you know what I mean
Um, Thug Life, I've been getting blamed for everything that Thug Life ever did. Everything that anybody can say Thug Life, it always comes back to me. I've had policemen get killed and I get blamed for it. You know, all types of violence and I get blamed for it. And I want to say that, you know, I didn't create Thug Life, I diagnosed it