UGK, Smoke D - Hi-Life lyrics

Dawg, it's real up in here
Niggas will kill you if you fuck up
You know what I'm saying?
They shoot all kinds of game
I'm just thankful the lord blessed me that I
Can see it a hundred miles away you know

High life we living that high life
High life (High life, mmm)
We living that high life, mmm

I'm tired of living fucked up
Tired of living bad
Tired of hearing grandmama telling me
"When you gonna go to church, Chad?"
Now I'm tryna live up to the image
That she would want to see
But I got one foot in the street
And every week I flip a ki
I never wanted to be a G
But niggas depend on me


It ain't safe to hit I10
So niggas fear wit' me
And all the niggas that I went to school wit'
Got cool wit', went to fool wit'
Out there sellin' that white shit
Pushing cocaine, niggas' whole existence
Dependent on the game
What ya want me to do? It's
Like somebody cut my throat
Got twenty-thousand dollars trying to turn
It to a hundred
And ain't nobody got no dough
So niggas tend to smoke, bad habit's do exist
And this bitch think that she can ease
My mind by sucking my dick
Bitch, maybe for a minute but
That shit never lasts it's 1996
Niggas is dying from laying on some ass
First Magic Johnson got it, then Eazy-E died
And you be wonderin' why young
Niggas out there smokin' fry
I wish that I could tell y'all
I wore a rubber every time
But if I told you that, nigga
You know that I be lying
And I've been fucking pussy since
The tender age of nine
It's getting to be a full-time job
Just trying to stay alive
And crackers tend to smirk
Offended by the weed smoke
Coming off my shirt but still I put in work
And front for my folks
'Cause where I come from, nigga
Family just ain't no joke
Now D be gettin' married
And Edgar on the boat
But what about Baby Doe? Some
Say that nigga's selling dope
And you know I ain't lying
That's just how family talk
But what you gonna do when the
Devil poke you with his fork?
And everybody sittin' in the
Pulpit ain't saved
Most preachers just false prophets fucking
Hoes and getting paid i'm looking for the

High life (High life)
We living that high life
High life (High life, mmm)
We living that high life, mmm

You only got one life to live
That's all they give us to do it
You can bullshit your way through it
Or stay true
It can be complicated 'cause niggas be
Gettin' shot in the cross
People and names get lost
The feeble and lame get tossed
Streets'll eat your ass alive
Take your possessions with pistols
Bare hands and knives
And nobody's surprised if
Somebody don't survive the dusk to see dawn
It's treacherous how we was left here to just
Die on these streets that we be on
Motherfuckers sleeping on them corners
That you pee on probably 'cause society felt
They didn't belong
Now who in the fuck made it this way for us?
Got all these little niggas selling that yay
Because it ain't like they
Make higher levels gainable
And that quote piece of American
Pie just ain't attainable
So how can I sustain a
Full life before death?
Man, I'm left out here to make
It by my goddamn self now come on
Who gives a damn when you can't
Afford the turkey or ham?
Living off of ramen noodles
Beef jerky and spam
Now that's sad, but that's a fact of life
All I can see in front of me is up for grabs
Come off your slab
'Cause poverty'll push a nigga over the brink
Over the edge especially if you
Don't know your ledge
And so instead of being without, I'm hustling
Trying to get through these ungodly days
Thinking of ways to get the
Fuck outta this maze
A man'll commit a crime 'cause
A fucking crime pays
I'm going through a phase you don't grow out
Until you a reason a motherfucker
Gots to po' out his 40 on the curb
Disturbed and left with no doubt in his mind
But still sometimes he don't know why
He walking around just hoping he get
One more try to make it
It's bullshit he going through, but yo
He gots to take it
You can't fake it, to get the high life

High life (High life)
We living that high life
High life (High life)
We living that high life, mmm (High life)
High life we living that high life
High life (High life)
We living that high life high life
We livin' that high life (High life)
High life (High life, mmm)
We livin' that high life