Curtis Mayfield
Thug Life
[Verse 1]
Scrape the corner, buy a Rover
Crack inside my grandma's sofa
Sunday, family coming over
Move the crack behind the toaster
Carry pistols with no holsters
Trying not to be a poster
You was listening to your coaches
I was listening to the vultures
And I slept with rats and roaches
That's why I don't smoke no roaches
N***as tryna knock my focus
Wonder why I'm sippin' potion
We happy, dawg, but we ain't joking
Big bullets, we ain't poking
In that pussy, slow motion
N***a, ain't none of my songs wrote

[Chorus]
I'm thinking to myself, you ain't gang, n***a, fuck you
Feel like 2Pac, Thug Life, n***a, fuck you
If he had the password to your phone he wouldn't have cuffed you
Dog-ass bitch, I knew I never should've trust you

[Verse 2]
Ho, stab a n***a in the back like the streets do
Can't believe that you betrayed me, I used to sleep with you
N***as quick to say they loyal to you, they be see-through
Gang, gang, screaming, "Fuck you, they want to eat you"
My son got asthma, grandma having spasms
Fuck the chatter, he gon' tattle, put 'em on the platter
Snakes plotting on my downfall, I can hear 'em rattle
(That fuck n***a gon' flop, man, 21 ain't even no real n***a, fuck that n***a)
We sticking to the G code, n***a, we ain't beefin' over freak ho's
I hit her on the D low, yeah, she like my steelo
That n***a think that he a bully, do him like Craig did Deebo
30-round hangin' out the big Glock
N***a, no six shots, shootin' 'til the clip stops
You a lil' kid and I'm a big dog
N***a, when we pullin' up the sticks out
Too much money got 'em pissed off
N***a, I'ma pull up at your bitch house
Fuck a n***as bitch to get a kick out it
N***a pop percs, gon' get a kick out it
Drinking on syrup with my dick out
Glock-17 with the dick out
[Chorus]
I'm thinking to myself, you ain't gang, n***a, fuck you
Feel like 2Pac, Thug Life, n***a, fuck you
If he had the password to your phone he wouldn't have cuffed you
Dog-ass bitch, I knew I never should've trust you

[Bridge]
What you want, ho, I got what you want, ho
What you want, ho, I got what you want, ho
What you want, ho, I got what you want, ho
What you want, ho, I got what you want, ho

[Verse 3]
All my tint presidential, like I'm Trump, dawg
Secret service shooters, leave 'em n***as slumped, dawg
Denzel, I get surgical with this pump, dawg
Busting down, breaking down, then I put it in a blunt, dawg
Made man stamped, I got "21" stamped
In my face, teetee and taytay in the same count
I was down, bad and now I'm shining like a lamp
You put a ring on her, she ain't nothing but a tramp
They kicked me outta middle school and sent me to the house
We 'bout that gunplay, n***a, motherfuck your count
19, I bought a Cutlass, four 12's and an AMP
Beating down Glenwood, n***a, feeling like a champ
N***a, we ain't takin' no deals
Lil' n***a, we ain't snitchin', we ain't making no sound
Used to jump n***as, now we jumping in a crowd
Used to make my mama cry, but now I make her proud
I remember rainy days but now she like the sound
[Chorus]
I'm thinking to myself, you ain't gang, n***a, fuck you
Feel like 2Pac, Thug Life, n***a, fuck you
If he had the password to your phone he wouldn't have cuffed you
Dog-ass bitch, I knew I never should've trust you

[Outro]
Ho, stab a n***a in the back like the streets do
Can't believe that you betrayed me, I used to sleep with you
N***as quick to say they loyal to you, they be see-through
Gang, gang, screaming, "Fuck you, they want to eat you"