Nipsey Hussle - It's Hard Out There lyrics

The Heavy Hitter Felli Fel
All up in the spot with Nipsey Hussle
The Slauson Boys cinematic
(The Empire)

It's so hard out here
But, I'm still breathin'
I said it's hard out here
But my nigga, I ain't leavin'

Lookit, I show niggas too much love
Not enough discipline
Now look at all this backwards
Shit a nigga in homies want my head
They'd rather see me dead
Than papered up on BET
That nigga gettin' bread
What you thought? What you think?
What that shit do?
I heard Nipsey gettin' paper
Is that shit true?
Yeah, he used to hustle off Slauson
Type of nigga probably deuce up on a coffin
'Cause homies' families was hurtin'
But what's it worth when these
Niggas want you curtains? Yeah, I know
They probably smile up in your face
But, I know you niggas phony 'cause
There's sweat up in your shake
Nigga, jealousy, how easily niggas forget
Used to walk through the hood
Nigga didn't have shit
I just hustled off the corner
And I stacked a couple chips
Then I hit the parking lot
With that brand new whip
How you love that? Ain't you
'posed to smile for me?
Why you hate that? Oh
You playin' high for me
They say cut the grass and the snakes'll show
Is you niggas mad at me or
Do you hate my dough? Just let me know

It's so hard out here
But, I'm still breathin'
I said it's hard out here
But my nigga, I ain't leavin'
I said it's hard out here
But, I'm still breathin'
It's so hard out here
But my nigga, I ain't leavin', no

When I was 15
My mama kicked me out and changed the locks
Her husband used to beat on us
And talk shit a lot
"You ain't my daddy, nigga
I ain't gotta listen to you"
Then my mama switched sides, like, "Nigga
Yeah you do" i used to wanna stay away
Used to hate to come home
Outcasted from the family 'cause
We wasn't his own
Now that's scandalous how you let
Him hit me that hard?
And that's scandalous how you let
Your two kids starve?
No lunch money, was bummy
And treated like a step child
Let me loose on these streets
The nigga went wild
No direction, false concept of family
Quick to bust the first damn
Burner that they handed me
Mama, these white folks'll never
Understand a G cryin' to the judge and
They still reprimanded me
Used to wonder why you act like
You always was mad at me
When cuz was the issue, but mama
I forgive you

It's so hard out here
But, I'm still breathin'
I said it's hard out here
But my nigga, I ain't leavin'
I said it's hard out here
But, I'm still breathin'
It's so hard out here
But my nigga, I ain't leavin', no