[Verse 1]
Times is hard, no doubt different ways to struggle
No stranger to the rack, he's the failure to raise your hustle
Plus whut, about 20 bucks for a days work
How'd it look? I turn a white T into a grey shirt
I ain't no punk homie, maintain Hollywood respect
Do my thing, I get the loot and jet, got the good connect
No stranger to the snipe game, cheeks tastes like cigarettes
From the bu*ts on the ground that I found, you still filter it..
No sleep ever, yeah cracker that's only dead time
Personified the subway train, I'm the red line
From Hollywood to Persia
Hoods up, heads down, Holland & McCursey
Call it a perversion
If I only knew a camera crew to follow me in person
No A&E, you want to see, pay the fee
Get a job? Can't say to me, so angrily
I got one you idiot, I work double shifts
Y'all don't see the pain
And that's where the trouble is
Imagining that generation or ex, stab in the back
Dirty needles, good kids hurtin' people
Mom didn't raise me like this
Wipe the hate from my lips
Blood and H in the mix
Drip all the way to my wrist
Yeah, I know what an atheist is
I live forever as a bloodstain, my name will exist
In this bathroom stall
I'll outlast you all
Push the plunger
Catch tags and blast the wall
Ain't no telling where I could go from here
Hope I'm clear
I see through the smoke and mirrors
I live harder on purpose to provoke my peers
My life is overrated man, I been a joke for years
It's overrated man, I been a joke for yours
[Hook]
And I don't need to tell y'all that times is hard
And you don't need to tell me that I've been scarred
I'm not a fraud
Let me believe that I'm in charge
I got the keys and Ima drive this car
Pain behind these bars
Need a minute put my mind on pause
Hollywood hold my back, my feet will shine these stars
One hit, one fix, one more dime I toss
Spike in my wrist
Crucify me, climb to god
[Verse 2]
Good times, bad times, Hollywood signs
Fat lines sniff 'em to the dome 'till you flat line
I stick the vic with the chrome with a black nine
Skidrow no place to call a home if you lack spine
If you can wit, yeah you can roll yeah that's fine
See these dudes forgot they PD rooms
I read graffiti like news while I PT cruise
Park outside blow smoke on the city views
Lit the fuse, hit the pipe early like hittin' snooze
I never want to wake up, perpetual insomniac
In retrospect I guess it sounds better when I'm on the track
Need a store-mat, I'm their drug corp
I'm in that white room walls are black
I do all of that
Call me back, let me know though Mr. Nodos
One of them imaginary people no lobos
Rip the photos, hot bars your sister quote those
Mr. Muggy Water mixed with coco
Sweat profusely, ditch the Loko
The bright and sunny sh**
60 bucks yeah, in the sole
Too quick, that's the Money Clique
Sayin' "come with this, yo whens this guy leaving?"
I bounce from the telly quick, now I'm dry heaving
Still got the cash though, to live is my gain
Black gold deliver my pain
My aim: don't remember my name
The city is strange, cast by Oliver Stone
Cinders remain carved in all of the thrones
Own judgement can't trust my, so I catch a bus ride
22 stories swan dive, but too much pride
Standing there on Julian, Family reunion
Randomly he ruined 'em
A gram or even two of 'em was all in a days work
Simple soul sacrifice
No more pain, hurt, no more cast the dice
Burn both ends I gotta light this candle
I learned from old friends that my life's a gamble
Yeah yeah cos my life's a
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