2Pac

Featuring: Outlawz

Songwriter: Kastro E.D.I. Mean Yaki Kadafi 2Pac

[Intro: 2Pac]
The question: "Is it real?"
The answer: "The Young Mothafuckin' Thugz!" (Nigga!)
K-Dogs (That's right), Young Hollywood (Come on), Big mothafuckin' Malkey (Yeah)
Representing on a mothafuckin' higher level
These mothafuckas just don't understand me
They all family
Won't y'all niggas hit these bustas ass (What's up?)

[Verse 1: Young Hollywood "Kadafi"]
What's up for '95? Yeah, '95 sound live!
I'm through with crimes, no more runnin' from one-time
Although I know what I'll get for my title
When I was young, that nickel-plated Four-Fifth was my idol
Chrome and stones, bones, and portable phones
Gettin' bungalow while I'm sittin' at home is what I scheme of
So now what I dream of is a life full of trouble
In fact countin' double digit stacks
Lay back for a minute, 500 SEL, yeah, I could see myself in it!
Murder over money, you ever heard of a dummy
With Glocks between his tummy, low down dirty and crummy?
Talk about that Thug Life be the only life I know
Talk about that drug life without this rap shit
Probably be the only route I go
And matter of fact I know I'll strive through this fo' sho'
Live that Thug Life

[Chorus: Female singing & 2Pac]
Thug Life, it's the only life for me (A nigga live a)
Thug Life, forever hustling in the streets (I forever live a)
Thug Life, when no one else was there for me (I gotta live a)
Thug Life, the G's became my family

[Verse 2: EDI "Big Malcolm"]
Thug Life, ever since we was from day one
Licking shots, gettin' back at the frustration
Live on rap is never my thought, I guess it's my fault
I told the support that nigga with his fuckin' court
Of OLE, drinkin' slowly, breath stinking tripped the police
Don't nothing matter but makin' snaps with
The homies, and all y'all know it ain't right
Throw a young nigga slow on life tryna survive through the strife
With a fuckin' butter knife, you fuckin' right
I go looney for my loochie whenever pulled, see
I was raised in the craze, so forever thuggin' is how I stay
Clutchin' pay and duckin' strays
I'm just a young thug, glad to see twenty
And plenty more, but the OGs say the [?] that I ain't ready for
So it's only right for me to earn my fuckin' stripes
Every day I fight, I fight, livin' that

[Chorus: Female singing & 2Pac]
Thug Life
It's the only life for me (Nigga gotta live a)
Thug Life
Forever hustling in the streets (I forever live a)
Thug Life
When no one else was there for me (Now I gots to live a)
Thug Life
The G's became my family
(K)

[Verse 3: K-Dog "Kastro"]
[?], well, some wonder
With a real niggas when a few cent make me represent harder
No dough, I can't bother, 'cause
Don't nothing move but the papers when niggas catch vapors
More, more niggas doing capers, but I'm
[?] me and my mens, it all means
That black Benz on rims and diamond rings (Hahaha)
Make me think thoughts of all sorts in no lesser (Yeah, nigga, yeah!)
Puffin' on Ports for the pressure [?]
[?], thugs ball to the full
Get on the trick pull, hopes of livin' wonderful
I ray in a bionic, make a playa a day
Blast away and I pray that a nigga lay
In peace, crease up my leaves in the breeze
With the real, get to slap, so act so I guess I gotta peel
For real [?], my niggas never showed me nuttin' right
Now I'm hype on this motherfuckin' Thug Life

[Chorus: Female singing & 2Pac]
Thug Life, it's the only life for me (I gotta live a)
Thug Life, forever hustling in the streets (A mothafucka live a)
Thug Life, when no one else was there for me (Only thing was the)
Thug Life, the G's became my family
Thug Life, it's the only life for me (That's why a nigga live the)
Thug Life, forever hustling in the streets (Only thing for me)
Thug Life, when no one else was there for me (I live a)
Thug Life, the G's became my family

[Outro: 2Pac]
Who do young nigga got out here these mothafuckin' days
Preachers? Them mothafuckas is as crooked as the motherfuckin' niggas on the street
Cops? Motherfuckas takin' bribes, endin' lives
Those niggas don't give a fuck about me
Nigga run a G, I'll be lost in the motha fuckin Sauce
Now I'm a G, I'm boss
Starin' at this mothafuckin Thug Life
Keep a nigga real, keep me on toes, Lord knows
I don't know what tomorrow'll bring
I do know one thing
Ain't nothing gon' change 'bout this game
Fuck the fame, all I want is the riches
Side-steppin' the bitches
And snitches they lay in ditches, dead, two to the head
Instead of me goin' to the penitentiary
Nigga I've been doing this shit since the elementary
Figure me fallin', I'm continuously ballin'
Never die, always high, Thug Life, baby
Have you seen me lately?
These Young Mothafuckin' Thugz
K-Dogs, Young Hollywood, Big Malkey, mothafuckin' Mutah
The niggas ain't to be fucked with
They ain't fi-finna be played with (Never that, never that)
They finna slay half these mothafuckas in the biz (All day)
What is this?
Mothfuckas think they can beat me, shit
Y'all niggas is tweakin'
Y'all can't fade these niggas (Never)
These the craziest mothafuckin' niggas in your age bracket (Thuggin' to the fullest)
And I can have you mothafuckas out the box
Niggas out there screamin' about bitches
And shit all that (Y'all niggas can't fade me)
Bullshit, we ain't gon' name no names
'Cause if you really want beef, we bring it to you punk mothafuckas
But half y'all niggas is out there rappin' like other niggas
These mothafucks is rappin' like thug niggas
Young Mothafuckin' Thugz, they keep it real
And I put that on my mothafuckin' momma
And everybody momma out there
How about that? You little suckas
Y'all can't fade this, ol' crooked ass shit
And after this, it's gon' be another hit
After that, one more, 'cause Mo Zee don't be playin'
We don't be playin' either (Slayin')
When we bringing you that mothafuckin' heater
On every single block, on every single street
There's a thug nigga
When you see the police nigga
Put up the middle finger, 'cause ain't no love nigga
That's how we do it in the ghetto
Thought you knew nigga, ahahaha
These niggas don't know
Young Thugz baby! (Tell 'em, niggas though)
Ayy if niggas got gats, put one in the chamber nigga (If you got one, put one in the chamber)
That's how we do it
Stay strapped, stay ready
Ayy but throw your mothafuckin' hands up
If there's just a fistfight nigga, and handle it like a mothafuckin' thug (Throw them thangs, nigga!)
Don't be no busta be running for the trunk like a sucka (Like the mothafuckin' old school suckas)
That's not how we do things around here on thug block
On thug block, nigga we throw it from the shoulders (All day!)
And we always drop boulders 'cause we soldiers, that's how we do it (That's right, that's right nigga)
And if you a sucka you gon' be a quick runnin' for the gun ass nigga
'Cause you need that trigger to feel bigger, but you know?
I'ma pull your whole card
Young Thugz, Thug Life, believe that!
95 money makin'
Thug Life
Biatch!

Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an actor and a highly influential rapper who is considered by many to be the greatest of all-time due to the revolutionary spirit and thug passion he mixed into his music. During his music career, he made appearances in movies such as his acclaimed debut in Juice (1992), Poetic Justice (1993), and Above the Rim (1994).

Born in Harlem, New York City to Black Panther Party members Billy Garland and Afeni Shakur, Tupac would later move to Baltimore before settling in the Bay Area cities of Oakland and Marin City in the late 1980s. There, he joined his first rap group Strictly Dope with Ray Luv before connecting with Shock G and Digital Underground. He was a roadie and backup dancer for the group before his breakthrough performance on their 1991 song “Same Song.”

2Pac released his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, which featured intense storytelling on singles such as “Trapped” and “Brenda’s Got a Baby.” His sophomore album Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z featured one of his signature songs, the Digital Underground-assisted “I Get Around.” After working on the Thug Life group album in 1994, 2Pac released Me Against the World the following year, which is considered by many to be his best album, peaking at #1 on the Billboard 200 and receiving a Grammy nomination—all while he sat in prison.

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