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fuck thug-life, I ain't gangsta.. just livin' out my life.//
If I commit crimes or hit with nines it's my life.//
my stryfe isn't blamed on the area I reside, it's my life.//
I try to fair right but sometimes it just takes a wrong turn.. it's my life.//

my life has been lived thru drama and bad karma.//
good times come but it's enevitable tha next'll be harda.//
my flex'll be bar'd up, nothin' goes exact like mathmatical equasions.//
practicallity's lost in thoughts of exasperation.//
doubt and denial ceize my mind like a manic without medication.//
however my dedication to this game keep me real thru rain or shine.//
pain or elevation to new heights, contemplation on news hype.//
revelations of sound booths with loose lines.//
I choose life....(X2)

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five times the level you'll ever achieve.//
I realized at an early age I had to straighten up to sucseed.//
tighten my belt and focus on my goals and dreams.//
as my life un-folds it seems, I can do whatever I want.//
whenever I want, aslong as I set my mind right, I'm-a never fall off.//
I'm contendin' with legends and circumstantial gods.//
so in this instance to advance I'll have to give it my all.//
if I'm livin' at all, I hear my call.//
weather or not I answer is my choice, it's my life dawg.//
.. it my life ..

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howcome people try'n-ta run my life.//
like I'm not free to do whatever I like.//
I need to do whatever feels right.//
that's the real light, to not conceal emotions and shine bright.//
set my wheels in motion and find my niche.//
in line for food stamps, or lying in a ditch.//
if that's the path I choose, then that's it.//
but if I choose to be rich that's what I'll be.//
drop a bomb on this industry and be idolized like D-R-E.//
see are we really meant to be; slaves to government standards.//
or social values, economic's and corrupted leaders spreadin' illness like cancer.//
be robots and follow the commander, not stand for what we believe in and end in stillness right after.//
that ain't life....(X2)
..this my life...

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