[Intro] I want to thank god for getting me out the bucket… The grind life… Yall crabs in a bucket The grind life This ain’t swimming pool n***a We thugging [Verse 1] Marcus momma smoke crack and his daddy was a pusher His cousin on for busting mother f**ers like a russian Cory momma crazy, him and Tony got nothing As long as Cory got food, him and Tony got something His uncle name Wayne, he smoking crack with my uncle Hit heavy in the cane, selling crack to my uncle Suge momma died man he was only 5 His cousin robbed a trailer, gave that boy only 45 They gave that boy 45 [Hook] We was crabs in the bucket and if we make it out we lucky but we thugging The grind life If we make it out we lucky but we crabs in the bucket and f** it Grind life [Verse 2] Head buster was my thug n***a Daddy was a smoker Put it on ya quick, n***a crazy like the joker My n***a fired things whole family straight thugging His big brother my big brother He best friends with my cousin All of us was crabs in the bucket Directions from the OG’s Like Ya lil n***a bust it Kevin was a thug, his momma could tell him nothing 6 at the top and the bottom he was thugging No time to play the cops and the robbers we was hustling Big boy done lost his momma and big Chris like my cousin We all came from nothing, we clutchin and we bustin Another cross breed Go to your head and try for Brohnson That’s the blood of a gangsta [Hook] We was crabs in the bucket and if we make it out we lucky but we thugging The grind life If we make it out we lucky but we crabs in the bucket and f** it Grind life [Verse 3] Fresh was a hard head since he was young Paula use to try to tell us change cuz we was young But still we was some hard heads On the hill coming They stood over my boy (mike boy) with a pump My momma was a teacher and my daddy was a sniffer His brother up in hunts And his son on that river I was on that river like the crabs in the bucket Nothing but k**ers around me on the yard with them pokers Far from broke n***as we was young dope dealers All my childhood friends got somebody up the road We put it in our hand, guarantee to smoke n***as All my childhood friends, all of us sell snow All of us sell dope [Hook] We was crabs in the bucket and if we make it out we lucky but we thugging Thug life If we make it out we lucky but we crabs in the bucket and f** it If we make it out that bucket We was crabs in the bucket and if we make it out we lucky but we thugging I hop you make it out the bucket If we make it out we lucky but we crabs in the bucket and f** it I hope you make it out that bucket [Outro]