It Ain't Easy (On Your Own)-Ricky Fante

[00:00.89]It Ain't Easy [00:01.71] [00:03.59]Keepin it real [00:04.07] [00:20.59]I take a shot of Henessey now I'm strong enough to face the madness [00:23.80]Nickel bag full of sess **** laced with hash [00:26.31]Phone calls from my ****** on the, other side [00:28.85]Two childhood friends just died, I couldn't cry [00:32.04]A damn shame, when will we ever change [00:34.65]And what remains from a twelve gauge to the brain [00:37.35]Arguements with my Boo is true [00:39.38]I spend mo' time with my ****** than I do with you [00:42.16]But everywhere it's the same thang, that's the game [00:44.90]I'll be damned if a thang changed, **** the fame [00:47.60]I'll be hustling to make a mill-ion, lord knows [00:50.22]Ain't no love for us ghetto children, so we cold [00:52.99]Rag top slowin down, time to stop for gas [00:55.60]Beep my horn for a hoochie with a proper ass, uhh [00:58.23]It ain't easy, that's my motto [01:01.09]Drinkin Tanqueray straight out the bottle [01:03.10]Everybody wanna know if I'm insane [01:05.23]My baby mama gotta mind full of silly games [01:08.01]And all the drama got me stressin like I'm hopeless, I can't cope [01:11.18]Me and the homies smokin roaches, cause we broke [01:14.19]Late night hangin out til the sunrise gettin high [01:17.07]Watchin the cops roll by [01:19.44]It ain't easy... that's right [01:23.78] [01:24.89]It ain't easy, being me [01:27.44]Will I see the penitentiary, or will I stay free [01:30.48] [01:40.74]I can't sleep ****** plottin on to kill me while I'm dreamin [01:43.35]Wake up sweaty and screamin, cause I can hear them suckers schemin [01:46.15]Probably paranoid, problem is, them punks be fantasizin [01:48.88]A brother bite the bullet, open fire and I died [01:51.26]I wonder why this the way it is, even now [01:53.83]Lookin out for these killer kids, cause they wild [01:56.60]Bill Clinton can you recognize a ***** representin [01:59.24]Doin twenty to life in San Quentin [02:01.42]Gettin calls from my ***** Mike Tyson, ain't nuttin nice [02:04.63]Yo 'Pac, do something righteous witcha life [02:06.75]And even thou you innocent you still a *****, so they figure [02:09.72]Rather have you behind bars than triggers [02:12.09]But I'm hold ya down and holla Thug Life, lickin shots [02:15.08]Til I see my ****** free on the block [02:17.33]But no it ain't easy, hahahah [02:20.71]Til I see my ****** free, on the block, oh [02:22.92]It ain't easy [02:24.35] [02:43.38]Lately been reminiscin [02:44.80]bout Peppermint Schnapps in Junior High hit the block [02:46.94]Keep an eye on the cops while D-Boys slang rocks [02:49.59]It's the project kid without a conscience, I'm havin dreams [02:52.48]of hearin screams at my concerts, me all my childhood peers [02:56.17]through the years tryin to stack a little green [02:58.24]I was only seventeen, when I started servin fiends [03:00.72]And I wish there was another way to stack a dollar [03:03.24]So my apoli', casue these hard times make me wanna holler [03:06.09]Will I live to see tommorrow, am I fallin off? [03:08.49]I hit the **** and then proceed to say **** all of y'all [03:11.00]Ain't nobody down with me I'm thuggin, I can't go home [03:13.72]Cause muh-******s think I'm buggin, so now I'm in [03:16.33]this high powered cell at the county jail [03:18.56]Punk judge got a grudge, can't post no bail, what [03:21.59]do I do in these county blues [03:23.85]Gettin battered and bruised by the you know who [03:26.53]And these fakes get to shakin when they face me [03:29.16]Snakes ain't got enough nuts to replace me [03:33.07]Sittin in this, livin hell, listenin to ****** yell [03:35.16]Tryin to torture em to tell, I'm gettin mail [03:37.54]But ain't nobody sayin much, the same old nuts [03:40.34]is makin bucks while these sluts is gettin ****ed [03:42.75]They violated my probation, and it seems [03:45.43]I'll be goin on a long vacation, meanwhile [03:49.03]It ain't easy [03:53.01]No it ain't easy [03:54.36]