Living

Living - Akon/2Pac/The Notorious B.I.G.

Akon：

Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto we livin

BIG：

I know how it feel to wake up f**ked up

Pockets broke as hell another rock to sell

People look at you like youse the user

Selling d**gs to all the losers mad buddha abuser

But they don't know about your stress-filled day

Baby on the way mad bills to pay

That's why you drink Tanqueray so you can reminisce

And wish you wasn't livin so devilish sss**t

I remember I was just like you

Smokin blunts with my crew flippin over 62's

Cause G-E-D wasn't B-I-G

I had to get P-A-I-D that's why my moms hate me

She was forced to kick me out no doubt

Then I figured out licks went for twenty down South

Packed up my tools for my raw power move

Glock nineteen for casket and flower moves

For chumps tryin to stop my flow

And what they don't know will show on the autopsy

Went to see Papi to cop me a brick

Asked for some consignment and he wasn't tryin to hear it

Smoking mad Newport's cause I'm due in court

For an assault that I caught in Bridgeport New York

Catch me if you can like the Gingerbread Man

You better have your gat in hand cause man

You betta have your gat in hand cause man

Akon：

Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto we livin

2Pac：

Our lifestyles be close captioned

Addicted to fatal attractions

Pictures of actions be played back

In the midst of mashin'

No fairy tales for this young black male

Some see me stranded in this land of hell jail and crack sales

Hustlin' and heart be a n***a culture or the

Repercutions while bustin' on backstabbin' vultures

Sellin' my soul for material wishes fast cars and b***hes

Wishin' I live my life a legend immortalized in pictures

Why shed tears

Save your sympathy

My childhood years were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetary

Here's a message to the newborns waitin' to breathe

If you believe then you can achieve

Just look at me

Against all odds though life is hard we carry on

Livin' in the projects broke with no lights on

To all the seeds that follow me

Protect your essence

Born with less but you still precious

Akon：

Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto Ghetto we livin

Gun shots every night in the

Ghetto

Crooked cops on sight in the

Ghetto

Every day is a fight in the