[Verse One: 2Pac]
Now ever since a ^!$$% was a seed
Only thing promised to me was the penitentiary, still ballin

Ridin on these ^!$$%z cause they lame
In a six-one Chevy, still heavy in this game, can you feel me?
Blame it on my momma I'm a thug ^!$$%

Up befo' the sun rise, quicker than the drug dealers
Tell me if it's on, ^!$$% then we first to bomb
Bust on these (*##$-made ^!$$%z hit 'em up, WESTSIDE

Ain't nobody love me as a broke ^!$$%
Finger on the trigger Lord forgive me if I smoke ^!$$%z
I love my females strapped, no $#&@in from the back

I get my currency in stacks, California's where I'm at - right?
Passed by while these ^!$$%z wonder why
I got shot but didn't die, let 'em see who's next to try

Did I cry, hell nah, ^!$$% tear I shed
for all my homies in the pen, many peers dead
^!$$%z still ballin


[Chorus: dominated by Trick Daddy]
Still ballin, until I die

You can bring your crew mother$#&@er
I be ballin, they wonder why
(You can bring your crew but we remain true mother$#&@ers still)


[Verse Two: Trick Daddy]
Now as I kneel and pray I hope the Lord understand

When he's gone, devolve, I become a dangerous man
Ain't crazy or deranged, I'm sayin (I'm sayin)
But when these kids go to spray 'em boy I don't be playin

With clientele, any rhyme sales
Question is, will you $#&@-^!$$%z ride for real, huh?
(*##$ ^!$$% this is G rated

Plus your homeboy won't make it, street game Fugazi
I'm elevated to the top of this %#@!
Done $#&@ed around and put me and 2Pac on the (*##$

And you can tell 'em THUG LIFE was the reason for this
And I ride for any ^!$$% who believe in the %#@!
I'm still ballin


[Chorus: 2Pac]
Still ballin, 'til the day I die

You can bring your crew but we remain true mother$#&@ers
Still ballin, ^!$$%z wonder why
You can bring your crew but we remain true mother$#&@ers

Still ballin

[Verse Three: 2Pac]

Now everybody wanna see us dead
Two murdered on the front page, shot to death, bullets to the head
^!$$%z holla out my name and it's similar to rape

Mother$#&@ers know I'm comin, so they runnin to they graves, watch
Swoop down with my ^!$$% from the Pound
Cause {Trick} don't give a $#&@, where you coward ^!$$%z now, blast

Keep pumpin, ain't worried bout nuttin
Busters thought we was frontin, so reload and keep dumpin


[Chorus - Trick Daddy version]
[Chorus - 2Pac version]


[2Pac] 'Til the day I die
[T.D.] THUG LIFE!
[2Pac] Still ballin.. mother$#&@ers still ballin

[2Pac] Straight mother$#&@in ballin