[Verse] You don't know about this rapping sh**, n***as get clapped and sh** War time in the field, baby k**ed, no accident A real n***a taught me real, said I had to practice it I need a quarter for my daughter, the streets, they can have this sh** You don't know how bad it is, n***as dying left and right The heat, I gotta carry that sh**, a life for a life These young boys don't really care and sh**, get life for a life Sitting a hundred years in jail and sh**, sitting in a cell and sh** Thinking in a box, gotta live life through mail and sh** Changing life in jail, you see the lord, you've been to hell and sh** Always been a wild child, they can never tell me sh** Then I started rapping on 'em, school I used to fail that sh** On the block, pills, weed, rocks, I was selling sh** 48 investigate, they knew I wasn't gon' tell them sh** Mama stressing all the time, losing all her hair and sh** I gotta get it, they can't tell me sh**, real n***a for life