[Lil' Zane]
What will it take for you to notice me; it's like I'm not here
Do you see us can you see us down here

We have a bad habit of lookin over people
But this time I'm gon' die famous and everybody gon' know


[Verse 1]
I'm just a skinny ^!$$% tryin to get bigger and grow stronger
and the lust to live plush and can't wait no longer

sick of seein moms workin comin home back hurtin
Cryin on my shoulder cuz the job's workin her over
On time everyday but the boss won't promote her

He's racist she say and $$#aultin in some way
Gon' see him on his off day, gon' let him know
You $#&@s wit moms no mo' when I drive the 44

When the headlines read, "Boy's Last Heart Was His Mind For Greed"
And he'll probably get the chair if good reason ain't there
tell the judge my excuses for the crimes I've committed

I was high when I did it
Worked a pound of Jay's herb, in the heat of the night
my mind clicked up on some other %#@!, something ain't right

met in the parking lot
he was comin out his parking spot
Bet nobody see it out there, it stay dark a lot

Went for the handle but the door was locked
At the same time @@#!in the glock kickin the car door
maybe not hold up, wait a minute

this rap game just got in it
and plus game I'm sayin two times
the world'll be mine


[Chorus: Lil' Zane]
Gonna be famous, hard to be nameless

^!$$%s gotta die to be famous
If I die famous, hard to explain this
I live a life to die famous


[Verse 2]
hustle money by Bloods, Crips, and drug dealers

It's all love wit us but disrespect, you catch slugs ^!$$%
I hang wit cutthroat ^!$$%s that'll choke yo ^!$$%s
Tie you up and rope yo ^!$$%s for rap or for dope baby

when I was young couldn't picture bein broke baby
then $#&@in wit them dope boys
had me low crazy

you know it's crucial when I'm sellin to my folk figure
dope fiends mixed genes
Papa was a rolling stone and I ain't grown

Left this lil ^!$$% all alone, now a ^!$$% grown
Genetic game that you passed on
Guess how many ^!$$%s I've passed gone, ^!$$%s in the system now

Ho's wantin me to hit it, but I'm dissin now
They got me wild, I know it's foul
but respect my lifestyle, it isn't fair

Before I'm legal I'll be a millionaire

chorus 2X's


[Verse 3]
Woke up this morning and saw the news flash, special report

the judge gave a ^!$$% life cuz the boy shot up the court
witness we die for ^!$$%s
pullin triggas for a livin

and we takin any and everything that we wasnt given
cuz hard times, keep a ^!$$% keep writin hard rhymes
stash 9's run up in a ^!$$% ain't scared to squeeze mines

freeze time, when I stop your heart
cuz the slugs that i'm spittin is the spot that could stop
I die famous, you be the ^!$$% I shot

but still nameless, cuz they cant figure the plot
my crew stainless, and we aint hailin no pot
and ain't nobody gettin bigger than the ^!$$%s we got

we worldwide, but we ride for a nation of thugs
we burnin heaters if you cheat us
dudes workin the slugs

And get the sex baby cuz I'm addicted to fame
You make me bust just by screamin my name
and when I die I die famous

[Chorus]


(Yes!)

[Chorus]


(Why do we have to die)

[Chorus]

(I know a lot of times.. we go unnoticed)

(They act like they don't love us)
(But I love you that's all that counts)

[Chorus]


(We love you thats all that counts)
(It's hard to explain why we die famous)
(But we do it baby)
(C'mon)

[Chorus] - repeat 2X


(Boy we gotta get noticed)
(We go to school but you don't see that)
(We live but you don't see that)
(This is how we know)
(This is you'll see)


Young world baby
We tired of goin unnamed
We tired of goin unnoticed
We've lived in the ghetto for years now
We movin to the hills ^!$$%
C'mon
Bringin wood to the hood

Y'all know what it is
Young world
I put my life on the line for y'all
I love y'all
It dont matter how hard it get
Know matter how hard you try, you keep tryin ^!$$%
^!$$% the world is yours