It Ain't Easy-2Pac

[00:01.680][Ad-lib] [00:02.510]Keepin' it real [00:04.900][Verse 1] [00:20.200]I take a shot of Hennessy, now I'm strong enough to face the madness [00:23.590]Nickel bag full of cess shit laced with hash [00:26.100]Phone calls from my ****ers on the other side [00:28.860]Two childhood friends just died, I couldn't cry [00:31.860]A damn shame, when will we ever change? [00:34.500]And what remains from a twelve gauge to the brain? [00:37.200]Arguments with my Boo, it's true [00:39.230]I spend mo' time with my ****ers than I do with you [00:41.880]But everywhere it's the same thang, that's the game [00:44.570]I'll be damned if a thang changed, **** the fame [00:47.190]I'll be hustlin' to make a mill-ion [00:49.230]Lord knows ain't no love for us ghetto children [00:51.940]So we cold, Rag-top slowin' down, time to stop for gas [00:55.270]Beep my horn for a hoochie with a proper ass, uhh [00:58.460]It ain't easy, that's my motto [01:00.740]Drinkin' Tanqueray straight out the bottle [01:02.600]Everybody wanna know if I'm insane [01:05.120]My baby mama gotta mind full of silly games [01:07.890]And all the drama got me stressin' like I'm hopeless [01:10.550]I can't cope me and the homies smokin' roaches [01:13.270]Cause we broke late night hangin' out 'til the sunrise gettin' high [01:17.190]Watchin' the cops roll by [01:19.120]It ain't easy... that's right... it ain't easy [01:25.890][Hook] [01:26.660]...Easy, being me [01:27.400]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [01:30.560]It ain't easy, being me [01:32.430]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [01:35.860]It ain't easy, being me [01:37.820]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [01:40.570][Verse 2] [01:40.810]I can't sleep, ****ers plottin' on me, kill me while I'm dreamin' [01:43.000]Wake up sweaty and screamin', cause I can hear them suckers schemin' [01:45.720]Probably paranoid, problem is, them punks be fantasizin' [01:48.490]A brother bite the bullet, open fire and I died [01:51.000]I wonder why this just the way it is [01:53.010]Even now lookin' out for these killa kids [01:55.730]Cause they wild [01:56.670]Bill Clinton can you recognize a ****er representin' [01:59.130]Doin' twenty to life in San Quentin [02:01.370]Gettin' calls from my ****er Mike Tyson, ain't nuttin' nice [02:04.500]Yo 'Pac, do something righteous witcha life [02:06.390]And even though you're innocent you still a ****er, so they figure, rather have you behind bars than triggers [02:12.020]But I'm hold ya down and holla Thug Life [02:14.300]Lickin' shots 'til I see my ****ers free on the block [02:17.420]But no it ain't easy, hahahah [02:20.660]'Til I see my ****ers free on the block, uh [02:23.070]It ain't easy [02:24.690][Hook] [02:29.500]It ain't easy, being me [02:31.080]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [02:34.480]It ain't easy, being me [02:36.410]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [02:39.910]It ain't easy, being me [02:41.660]Will I see the penitentiary?.. [02:43.380][Verse 3] [02:43.610]Lately been reminiscin' [02:44.170]'Bout Peppermint Schnapps in Junior High hit the block [02:46.980]Keep an eye on the cops while D-Boys slang rocks [02:49.730]Just a project kid without a conscience, I'm havin' dreams [02:52.820]Of hearin' screams at my concerts [02:54.540]Me and all my childhood peers through the years tryin' to stack a little green [02:58.330]I was only seventeen, when I started servin' fiends [03:01.170]And I wish there was another way to stack a dolla [03:03.380]Sold my Impala cause these hard times make me wanna holla [03:06.360]Will I live to see tomorrow, am I fallin' off? [03:08.780]I hit the weed and then proceed to say **** all of y'all [03:11.360]Ain't nobody down with me I'm thuggin' [03:13.060]I can't go home 'cause muh-****ers think I'm buggin' [03:15.650]So now I'm in this high powered cell at the county jail [03:18.840]Punk judge got a grudge, can't post no bail [03:21.520]What, do I do in these county blues [03:24.000]Gettin' battered and bruised by the you know who [03:26.580]And these fakes get to shakin' when they face me [03:29.080]Snakes ain't got enough n**s to replace me [03:31.800]Sittin' in this livin' hell, listenin' to ****ers yell [03:35.410]Tryna torture 'em to tell, I'm gettin' mail [03:38.130]But ain't nobody sayin' much, the same old n**s [03:40.710]Is makin' bucks while these s***s is gettin' ****ed [03:42.950]They violated my probation [03:44.740]And it seems I'll be goin' on a long vacation [03:48.010]Meanwhile it ain't easy.. [03:53.190]No it ain't easy [03:54.400][Hook] [03:54.670]It ain't easy, being me [03:56.040]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [03:59.250]It ain't easy, being me [04:01.210]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [04:04.520]It ain't easy, being me [04:06.530]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [04:09.860]It ain't easy, being me [04:11.800]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [04:15.080]It ain't easy, being me [04:17.140]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [04:20.520]It ain't easy, being me [04:22.440]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free? [04:26.520]