Layzie Bone, Thin C - Stayin' Alive lyrics

Yeah, yeah
Gangstas, thugsters, hustlers and pimps
Scramblin tryin to get it right
Yeah we tryin to live our life
Gamblin, robberies, murderers and thieves
Yeah we tryin to get it right
Prayin up under the city lights
Gangstas, thugsters, hustlers and pimps
Scramblin tryin to get it right
Yeah we tryin to live our life
Gamblin, robberies, murderers and thieves
Yeah we tryin to get it right
Prayin up under the city lights

It's a little bit safer during the day
When the kids is out to play
But when the street lights come on you
Better be takin that ass home
Doin our dirt up under the sun
But the moonlight is dimmer
January down to December through the spring
Fall and winter
You learn to survive, in the ghetto
Better take than get took
Sellin that yayo on the corner nigga
Better break or get booked
Look, po-po is on that ass
Them jackals is on that ass
It's the crackheads that make the laws but
It's the niggas you got to blast
Cause they cutthroat, and sheisty!
One-eighty-seven the lesson the niggas that's
Frontin they might be
The only way a nigga make it out
Of the ghetto and that's real
Combat on contact
Nigga kill or be killed - swear fo' God
Thug life is serious
My heart is near and dear to this
So many pause to understand this
I wanna smoke the cannibus
Can't forget the hood
Cause they represent the struggle right
Money, women, power
Respect that's just a soldier's life

You can tell by the way that I get this dough
And I crack my toes I'm a hustler babe
Tell by the way that I talk my talk
And I walk my walk I'm thuggin baby
I, I, I, I'm, sayin alive - stayin alive
I, I, I, I'm, gettin mine - mean green

Green light Caddy coupe
Stackin like it's Mercedes Benz
Malibu's and heavy Chevy's
Every day we stackin ends
Some niggas take on the bridge while
Other niggas they fumble wit it
Make it out and start a business while
Other niggas they crumble wit it
Need work? Well come and get it
Best believe I got mine
I represent for the OG's and
The hustlers that got time
City sets the attention from one
Jumper to the next jumper
Land breathe easy, we always ready to rumble
Ain't it a wonder, how I keep from goin under
And they tell us we should
Shoot for the stars (that's some bullshit)
But it ain't no wonder
When you feel the pain and thunder
Motherfuckers'll rather shoot up your car
(motherfucker)
See by the church it's a liquor sto'
By the liquor sto' it's a crackhouse
All in the pot of gumbo
Now you know what we rap 'bout
Ain't no vaccine for crack fiends
Just pipe dreams ain't no rice
Do yo' thing it's yo' life
I'ma ball up under the city lights

Some of these niggas I grew up with
Is niggas that I don't fuck with
I done came up and they ain't so
Niggas be on some dumb shit
They hatin me and my hardwork
My territory is standard
I'm connected down in A T-L
From Tennessee to Kansas
Hell yeah I planned this
I was tryin to get off the block
Slang rap or slang rocks
Keep it movin or get popped
Non-stop, was my hustle mode
Constantly grinding
Get it so much I'm on the
Nuts I guess I'm just, grimy
Find me, showin love
Dippin with Mississippi thugs
Look at me I'm grippin my nuts
Get it if you got the guts
Code to the streets say
Fuck a "he say she say"
Do a nigga face to face from
The suburbs to the PJ's
Never give no leeway, nigga better believe me
I always had to put in work
Shit ain't never been easy
I guess I'm livin just to love for the city
And if you want me nigga come and get me
You feel me?

Gangstas, thugsters, hustlers and pimps
Scramblin tryin to get it right
Yeah we tryin to live our life
Gamblin, robberies, murderers and thieves
Yeah we tryin to get it right
Prayin up under the city lights