(feat. C-Murder, Eightball, Master P)

[Chorus x3]


Mama always told me (told me)
but papa never showed me (showed me)

So i live the life of a thug
and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs


Mama always told me it'd happen
but she never told me when
she said probably happen when I get much older

but I kinda wish it would of happened then
cuz I had my mind on gettin' some money
^!$$% I'm tryin' get rich

mom told me never trust these ^!$$%s
and ummm never put your faith in the (*##$
see I hang with a bunch of grave yard villians

^!$$% robbin' sprees we stealin'
choppin' keys with drug dealers
click like pistol with killers

they tried to preech to me, couldn't preech to me
tried to teach me, couldn't teach me
see I've gotta learn the hard way on my own

cuz nobody else could give me a reason
they always told me I'll probably end up dead
or in the pen see me and P some outcasts

can't arrest the family tellin' the kids not to be like him
and see it was ruff some times but it had to be
enough trippin' on Cess go hand your back and pass the weed

I ran wild deep in the game off of change
^!$$% (*##$ won't $#&@ 'em ^!$$% won't kill me
but its all in the game

see pop was too busy doin' his own thing to try to show me
but mom told me Silkk watch your paper
at the top it gets lonely, mama told me


[Chorus (2X)]


Mama always told me (told me)
but papa never showed me (showed me)
So i live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs

token guns on my side, no limit ^!$$%s gone ride

paper chasin' for millions Tru ^!$$%s won't die

make time for some dope ^!$$% $#&@ bein' broke

I live my life on the ropes ^!$$% $#&@ the P.O.

I leave you dead with the bustas

real ^!$$%s gone love us
we make crack with the killers and sell dope to the country


^!$$% ^!$$% outlaws and dealers tattoo and killers
^!$$%s bout it with millions now the world gone feel this


I'm staying TRU to the game you (*##$es callin' my name
mama told me to change its ghetto blood in my vein


see I got love for thugs never mix sex with drugs
my enemy in blood when I come bury me a thug
henessy and weed be a ball with desert

these shirts and kakis is how we work
hypnotized by change after fortune and fame
I roll 20's and thangs rolex and change but uh..


[Chorus (2X)]


Mama always told me (told me)
but papa never showed me (showed me)
So I live the life of a thug

and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs

right from the edge killer ^!$$% gone off !@%!e

brown sticky dope makin' ^!$$%s turn on their folks
ain't now rules, fools rush in but don't come out
so many ^!$$%s round my way die runnin' their mouth
fairy tales are for children we ain't story book livin'
south streets be bloody from all the shootin' and killin'

villians ride for similac and crack and smack
and its a fact all killers ain't inner city blacks
my homies have to serve on blocks that's hot with cops
with rocks and stacks and be packed to get their scraps
I don't knock it cuz if my pocket starts to lose weight

you can find me on I-10 tryin' move weight
my mama on her knees prayin' givin' god her time
while I'm on the streets hustlin' tryin' gettin' what's mine
am I wrong am I right got can only determine
I can only live my life and life is for learnin' check it


[Chorus (4X)]

Mama always told me (told me)
but papa never showed me (showed me)

So i live the life of a thug
and all I wanna do is smoke weed, ride, and sell drugs