[2Pac]
Haha, for all my ^!$$%z in the hood (yeah)
That live the life of a ghetto star

(You KNOW!) Heh, you know how we do it
(Hahaha, Makaveli!)


[Verse One: 2Pac]

Just holla my name and witness game official

^!$$%z is so ashamed they stand stiff like scared (*##$es
While I remain inside a paradox called my block
Though gunshots is promised to me, when will I stop?

I hit the weed and hope to God I can fly high
Witness my enemies die when I ride by, they shouldn'ta tried
I send they bodies to they parents up North

With they faces, they wrists and they nuts cut off
$#&@ 'em all what I scream as I dream in tongues
$#&@ a trick, get me rich and the (*##$es'll come

Bust my gun, make 'em all scatter
Bullets to my nuts only made my balls fatter, eat a dick BEYOTCH!
Mercy, never that, you say you comin back?

Bring it on, fo' whoever strapped
Introduce you to the pleasure and the pain, you can go so far
Just sell me your soul, and live the life.. (of a ghetto star)


[Verse Two: Nutso]


I live the life of a thug ^!$$%, drug dealer livin game tight
Mug ^!$$%z, slug ^!$$%z for the fame life
Laced with game, practice on takin pain

Quick to slang, and let it rain through yo' brain
Street smart, proficient, intelligent
And keep suckers hittin 'til snitches start smellin it

Movin ^!$$%z with telekenesis
Keepin Channel 7 at work, filmin different features
Leadin ^!$$%z to an early death with they head blown

And to those who didn't make it to the morgue was just dead and gone
And hope ^!$$%z got punished
Kidnapped, jacked in the back with macs to they neck

Rappers waitin to get done in
Backtalkin - we tossed his $$# out
M.O.B. related, one mo' ^!$$% found shot up with his dick in his mouth

Printed my name in these streets as a mother$#&@in G
Now the next generation's lookin at me through {*can't decipher*}


[Verse Three: 2Pac - overlaps Verse Two]

Walkin through the cemetary

Talkin to my homies that was buried
See my enemies wanna see me dead, I ain't worried, forgive me
Please give me shelter, calm my fears

Lifted my head, from my hands, had a palm of tears
I see bodies gettin splashed, with acid
Two shots rang from the plastic glock, wrapped in plastic

Buried the !@$(, time to notify, his family
Shiiit, ain't nuttin left to be identified
Evacuate the crime scene fast

Why I heard the Feds had a warrant for my $$#
Fly, I won't touch down 'til I see Tiajuana
Set up shop sellin them crooked cops !@!@&&

Label me a success, I made the switch
Retired from the life that never gave me %#@!
With cash that I couldn't spend, countless cars

An addict for a wife, my life, as a ghetto star

[Verse Four: Nutso]


Got the word that some nerds wanna plot on this
Hit the curve, let it swerve, had to stop they grip

No remorse, no repentance as I buck one down
Straight to the morgue cause I plan on, shuttin %#@! down
Born soldiers! -- $#&@ed him up with a mac-fo'

Torn ligaments, all up in that ^!$$% shoulder
And a vest couldn't protect that flesh
Cause I got, slugs, to knock the air out your chest

Death, apparently they wasn't sucka free
Cause I had all them wannabe thug ^!$$%z in protective custody
I guess they heard that I got them birds
Thought I was a nerd 'til I bucked one of them to the curb
Luxury livin lavish, with dreams of dyin rich

With a team and clientele on my mother$#&@in dick
And gettin down on these snitch (*##$es, protectin riches
By givin stitches, the life as a ghetto star
When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)
When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)

When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)
When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)
When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)
When I grow up I wanna be like dem (and live my life as a ghetto star)


[Outro: 2Pac w/ Nutso talking in background]

This goes out to all you mother$#&@ers
that STILL, have to kill to make that money
All you ^!$$%z on the block, sellin rocks

Hand to hand, runnin from the police
I see you - live your life as a ghetto star!
Talk to the hood, claimin you gettin riches
Runnin from the flags.. live my life as a ghetto star
^!$$%z with two strikes that don't wanna see the third, I feel you