Layzie Bone - Intro: It's Not a Game (It’s Not a Game) lyrics

Yeah, yeah (yeah, yeah)
L-Burna (L-Burna baby)
It's not a game (it's not a game) uhh, what?

Layzie Bone bringin it to ya like (what)
Where I'm from it's cutthroat
Grimy is the way we livin
Whinos and dopefiends
Occupy an abandoned buildin
Smokin in the alleyway
Across from where the children play
Bullets ain't got no names on 'em
But they flyin around the stray
Chasin after the innocent ones when the
Wicked ones they goin hard
Tell me why is it like this dawg
Why the ghetto leave me permanent scars?
No time for education, we hustlin just to eat
Scramblin tryin to make it man
It is hectic on these streets
The fiend is what they issue out
Tell me what yo' issue about
The landlord want his money now but the
Landlord 'bout to kick you out
Baby needs some Pampers too
Plus a can of Similac
She blew that money smokin crack
Why you think she seem like that?
Damn my story grim like that
And it's always been like that
Did the Lord take my blessings
Away? If he did, can I win 'em back?
Hope he got a plan for me and
I pray he don't forget my name
14 years old I'm already knowin
Life is not a game pain and this agony
Best friends backstabbin me
You don't wanna see me come up
Y'all niggas just want to laugh at me
But y'all don't know the half of me
If you did you wouldn't judge me
Would everybody be diggin a thug when
A thug be livin lovely?
And I know because I made it out
But I musta made a U-trun
I'm right back where I started dawg
And ain't none of y'all concerned
This time I got bail money if I
Have to move that white again
Lock me up throw away the key and
I know y'all ain't gon' write again
Standin on my own two, dyin with my boots on
Ready for whatever come my way if I'm
Forced to face the truth holmes
In and out of group homes
They say Little Lay's defiant
But, I'm searchin tryin to find my way
Lookin for some guidance
My role model's the dopeman
Pimps killers and thieves
They say these streets
Is the way so I guess this is the life I lead
Speedin up a one-way, the wrong way
From which I came switchin lanes in the fast
Lane, feel my pain, it's not a game