Life As A Shorty-Shyheim

[ti:Life As A Shorty] [ar:Shyheim] [al:The Lost Generation] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Life As A Shorty - Shyheim [00:05.37]Thug n**gas bounce to this [00:06.45] [00:10.41]Only thug n**gas bounce to this [00:11.82] [00:12.81]Word up [00:13.12] [00:13.90]I won't no fruitcake a** [00:14.97] [00:15.64]N**gas bouncing to this sh*t right here [00:17.84] [00:18.37]Word up strictly hardcore only check it [00:21.03] [00:22.48]Gunshots they travel throughout my projects quickly [00:25.28]I stay thuggin' for pray the god that none hits me [00:28.17]Me and my peoples we swarm in packs [00:30.25]Some rap others sell crack [00:31.51]To get stacks of the green paper [00:34.09]We move makers lax and land cruisers takers [00:36.86]Block vacators thugs that run 5 acres of land [00:40.15]Flooded with dealers who kill for grams [00:41.71]It's the street life [00:42.86]Baby you wouldn't understand nothing [00:45.22]Getting my hustle on just 8 to 10 long for well [00:49.05]But here I go again cause recreation programs [00:51.87]They makin' me no grands [00:53.02]So much stress on my mind I can just kill a man [00:55.51] [01:06.98]I never knew my own dad [01:08.20]When I was young he broke out [01:09.48]That's when my mom got smoked out [01:10.89]And I took the street route [01:12.38]I hung around with real gangstas [01:13.83]Play as and hustles [01:15.12]I guess they liked my style a lot [01:16.77]So they took a little n**ga under the wing [01:18.52] [01:19.10]Eventually I started slingin' white sh*t [01:21.50]No time for school cause the hours didn't mix [01:23.43]So sleep late at night most nights I didn't even sleep [01:26.06]That's how I got caught up [01:27.42]And sold a dime to the beast [01:29.28]They offered me a 1 to 3 hahaa I do a bullet [01:32.26]Traded in my gates for greens that's how the state do it [01:35.11]I'm movin' ain't no joking get your muthaf**kin' dosage [01:37.80]So when you and the penal don't be acting like no b**ch [01:40.62] [02:02.74]I'm seventeen now and I'm off to parole [02:05.38]I see the a month hopefully I be home [02:08.09]I'm kinda anxious [02:09.13]I haven't seen my friends in a year [02:10.99]My moms od and when I think about it every seals [02:14.02]But I'm a young man that gotta change his lifestyle [02:16.61]Get a job at compound [02:17.72] [02:18.22]It ain't easy as it sounds [02:19.70]I gotta have some fast money [02:21.21]Flippin' burgers everyday [02:22.47] [02:23.02]I been to house I get a slinky day [02:25.16]Anybody in my way I'm blasting f**k the peace [02:27.91]Cause war upon the streets [02:29.41]No south west or east [02:30.52]All my n**gas in the struggle [02:31.66]Hold your head and get the cream [02:33.39]Big guns money and p**sy be the US ghetto dream