T H U G-Z-RO

[ti:T H U G] [ar:Z-RO] [al:Im Still Living] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]T H U G - Z-RO [00:00.61]24/7 I'm in trouble for nothing [00:02.04]To the laws on the topic [00:03.10]Of they daily discussion [00:03.88]Blood pumping and rushing [00:04.80]I gotta struggle to survive [00:05.78]I be rapping [00:06.31]But I can do with a nine to five [00:07.67]Long as it be legal [00:08.61]I be will to try [00:09.42]All I need is a pair of wings [00:10.50]I be willing to fly [00:11.44]Trying to get a piece of the pie [00:12.43]And ain't I taking I work for it [00:13.49]I be doing right [00:14.29]But I'm being punished on earth for it [00:15.55]What else can I do [00:16.28]To make it on this scene [00:17.21]Seem like whatever I do [00:18.11]Will get me up in prison [00:19.07]Never see me on the corner [00:20.07]Never caught me with crack [00:20.96]Got a dream of leaving the ghetto [00:21.98]And ain't coming back [00:22.77]Homicide detectives [00:23.07] [00:23.62]Trying to threaten me with some time [00:24.71]Only thing I ever murdered [00:25.69]Was college ruled lines [00:26.61]It's a patent punishment [00:27.47]In America's design [00:28.46]Arrested and incarcerated [00:29.49]For other peoples crimes [00:30.42]It's so amazing [00:31.49]Sometime one time stereotype me [00:39.11]The jewelry and gold teeth [00:42.09]They swear I've got to be running drugs [00:45.67] [00:46.49]But I am just a man trying to Satan free [00:54.23]Through hell is where they're taking me [00:56.82]I swear it's so amazing to be a thug [01:01.16]A True Hero Under God's sight from above [01:05.10]Everyday I see my people in poverty [01:06.52]And when I say my people [01:07.51]I mean everybody I see [01:08.57]And no discrimination [01:09.29]On Caucasian or Asian [01:10.64]Or Mexican Samoan lesbians or the gay men [01:12.40]Everybody got a day to die [01:13.75]And they won't miss it [01:14.56]Better be ready for company [01:15.35]When death come visit [01:16.20]Man I wish Adam and Eve [01:17.22]Wouldn't been in the garden [01:18.09]Now the devil swinging at me [01:19.09]Got me weaving and bobbing [01:19.95]Homies are being murdered [01:20.89]By lieutenants to sergeants [01:21.83]Like Weez we uprooted just as soon we harvest [01:23.86]Searching for sunshines [01:24.88]Overcated by darkness [01:25.84]Looking for protection [01:26.70]In God's heavenly fortress [01:27.72]They tell me when I make it [01:28.79]There'll be no more pain [01:29.62]Ain't gotta be nervous [01:30.25]About somebody knowing your name [01:31.33]Everybody is your family [01:32.81]It's love around you [01:33.60]Even on earth God is your upper [01:34.51]When people down you so amazing [01:35.90] [01:36.46]Am I cursed while on this earth [01:39.71]Cause I can't find better days [01:43.73]But still I give the Lord praise [01:46.42]Even though these pirates request my blood [01:51.01]But I am just a man trying to stay Satan free [01:58.86]Through hell is where they're taking me [02:01.58]I swear it's so amazing to be a thug [02:05.82]A True Hero Under God's sight from above [02:09.75]The weight of my stress [02:10.54]Is like a fifty ton boulder [02:11.67]Making my head heavy [02:12.17]Can't be lifted by my shoulders [02:13.38]No wonder why my head down [02:14.42]I be thinking too hard [02:15.33]And be smoking like a tail pipe [02:16.32]And drinking too hard [02:17.17]I decided to give it up [02:18.08]And give it to God [02:18.95]Instead of living in the world [02:19.96]I'ma live in the Lord [02:20.83]Gave up cussing this time [02:21.86]While I'm spitting my bars [02:22.79]With a vision of me in prison [02:23.90]That vision is fraud [02:24.68]Investigators cooking the case [02:25.86]Cooking too hard [02:26.53]I know they know I didn't do it [02:27.55]Cause they looking for Claude [02:28.56]Nobody hollin' at me [02:29.42]Got me feeling like an outlaw [02:30.55]Had a case against a brother [02:31.51]But I broke it apart [02:32.41]No weapon formed against me sha'll prosper [02:33.77]If it's written [02:34.37]Even though michettis be cutting [02:35.25]And guns be spitting [02:36.23]I got a Satan proof vest on [02:37.39]Stopping the devil head on [02:38.30]With Jesus I'ma stop him [02:39.07]That's some'ing you can bet on amazing [02:41.09]Sometime one time stereotype me [02:48.62]The jewelry and gold teeth [02:51.50]They swear I've got to be running drugs [02:55.81]But I am just a man trying to stay Satan free [03:03.61]Through hell is where they're taking me [03:06.34]I swear it's so amazing to be a thug [03:10.64]A True Hero Under God's sight from above