The Hard Way-JT The Bigga Figga/RBL Posse

[ti:The Hard Way] [ar:JT The Bigga Figga] [al:Don't Stop Til We Major] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Hard Way - JT The Bigga Figga/RBL Posse [00:04.27]It's a hot summer day in the year of 84' [00:06.38]Fresh out of summer school headed for the store [00:08.42]Watchin the O G 's standing out gettin rich [00:10.50]Slangin the fat brown bags of the good sh*t [00:12.49]D**e is out but I really ain't seen it though [00:14.49]D**e fiends smokin the sh*t by the corner store [00:16.53]Broke as f**k kinda bummy with nappy hair [00:18.58]But what can I say when a playa's on welfare [00:20.54]Life is hard and I'm only 13 [00:22.57]Always on a prowl always on a scheme [00:24.64]There wasn't nothin to do but have fun [00:26.76]Wait for the dark then creep to Emporium [00:28.67]Get the T I get the Guess shirts [00:30.78]Get the fresh kero couch break for the turf [00:32.87]Doin it boley never in fear [00:34.86]Gettin they punk a** for about a year [00:36.89]Until I got called went to the hall [00:38.90]Writin on the wall waitin for a hair call [00:40.91]Released to moms what can I say [00:43.04]Off to Sears the very next day [00:45.00]Now Sears is easier 'cause it's in the area [00:47.00]Walk to the back of the rack then carried the [00:49.08]Sh*t back to the stolen car [00:51.05]Drive and park by the house is not too far [00:53.13]My gear was fat but still no money though [00:55.28]Talked to my homey then got fronted so [00:57.25]Stackin my sh*t hustlin cash [00:59.24]Gotta get out gave him his half [01:01.17]Hooked up with a friend oh we started boomin [01:02.89]Then we go to some O's then I went solo [01:05.32]Stackin my pay gettin it on [01:07.38]Got myself a beeper and a cellular phone [01:09.37]A donkey roll a twenty-two [01:10.83] [01:11.38]Jumped on my bike headed for school [01:13.35]Locked up my sh*t 'cause the fools be gankin [01:15.44]A young ni**a pimpin that Benjamin Franklin [01:17.13]So I walked the halls wishin the Merrier [01:19.52]Hooked up with a freak by the cafeteria [01:21.55]Hair was long pretty with butt [01:23.58]I told the freak I was about to cut [01:25.40]So call me at eight and don't be late [01:27.49]When I left the school there was a big mistake [01:29.51]So I jumped on my bike and headed for the set [01:31.55]With a pocketful of rocks ah man I regret [01:33.42]For not stayin in school for just doin my work [01:35.65]Gettin chased by the Task now I feel like a jerk [01:37.71]So I'm on the run and I better run fast [01:39.68]'Cause if I don't they're gonna beat my a** [01:41.97]Hit a quick cut run by the Ave [01:43.97]Go to the Valley you know I gotta laugh [01:45.97]Jogged to the third floor runnin the d**e spot [01:47.97]A playa too quick a young brotha can't get caught [01:50.01]B**ch want credit better go to the bank [01:51.83]Then my homey walked in with the straight-laced dank [01:54.17]Two young playas gettin high on the couch [01:55.98]In a spot at a d**e fiend's house [01:57.90]Two hours in passed now it must be cool [02:00.01]'Cause I gotta make money f**k going back to school [02:01.97]Wrapped up for the crime now I gotta do time [02:04.07]Oh when I'm out I'll be back on the grind [02:06.08]All my homies kept flippin and the man kept trippin [02:08.26]But me JT I'm a victim of the system [02:10.37]Sh*t got thick but what can I say [02:12.16]In the life of a player but that is the hard way [02:14.56] [02:22.46]Now it's 92' as you can see [02:24.38]So I gotta get paid from the are-A-P [02:26.49]I was in the d**e game now I'm in the rap game [02:28.45]But I gotta get paid so f**k the fame [02:30.55]I'm a tell ta it goes some like this [02:32.66]By any means necessary I'm gettin my grits [02:34.75]Here's a little somethin by the man [02:36.58]He's always schemin up a plan [02:38.69]Always tryin to say which way is right [02:40.72]Always tryin to force us to the way of life [02:42.75]Of robbin killin straight d**e dealin [02:44.77]Even Young niggas runnin around tryin to be villians [02:46.73]So they offer us minimum wage [02:48.95]Knowin damn well we're gonna get the 12 gauge [02:50.90]To go outside and pull a jack or a caper [02:53.17]Hopin that we make front page of the paper [02:55.13]Extra extra black brotha dead [02:57.18]Shot in the head by a cop named Fred [02:58.94]When you read the paper you know it's a damn lie [03:01.27]Talk about justifiable homicide [03:03.32]Then they say we no good at all [03:05.02]And if we are for just raps and basketball [03:07.34]Niggas ain't sh*t niggas all lazy [03:09.30]All they do is go to jail f**k and have babies [03:11.35]Sh*t I'm not that ni**a [03:13.46]I'm JT the one and only Bigga Figga [03:15.33]That's one of the reasons why I'm doin my own thang [03:17.26]Now I know you've heard the song [03:18.43]So mind your own mane [03:19.37]And you'll be fine and you be cool [03:21.22]And all you young brothas you better stay in school [03:23.40]Quit runnin around tryin to be the neighborhood jacker [03:25.29]Better go to recess and eat some cheese and crackers [03:27.41]Before you find yourself layin up on a tombstone [03:29.50]Gonna be there forever 'cause that is your home [03:31.74]No more TV and no more Nintendo [03:33.71]No more bikes and no more friends bro [03:35.72]You better wake up before it's too late [03:37.64]Before you find yourself standin out in heaven's gate [03:39.62]'Cause you tryin to get in but no my friend [03:41.69]'Cause ya die or you committed a sin [03:43.64]Tryin to peel a cap but ya got your cap peeled [03:45.73]Now your mother's outside wonderin why you got killed [03:48.00]Use better judgment in the game you play [03:49.79]In the life of a black man but that is the hard way