Key: E minor•
Verse 1
Em
G
C
Green life, it's so much trouble out here
D
Em
G
In the Valley of Decision,
D
Em
The place of Livingstone,
G
C
we in the concrete jungle y 'all
D
Em
Oakland is my home
G
C
It's hard, I know, that's the way
corner turning tricks
G
C
Cause she's a bad girl, still her body for
G
C
Ain't got no clothes to wear for school
The white woman from the
Em
Now they trying to take the little brothers
G
C
And the two little girls
between your fingers
C
D
As I sit back and let the thought linger
G
C
It's taking our brothers
Em
G
Brothers are grinding, mothers are trying
Em
G
Oh, hardship an d pain,
C
D
that's the struggle of the street life game
Em
G
C
It's hard, I know, that's the way
Em
G
I walked in my homie's funeral last week
D
Em
and it made me think I never tripped
Em
D
And it ain't that I'm scared
G
C
But if a food store hits blast,
Em
G
See, mom's already lost my brother,
Em
G
But see, we droppin' like flies,
G
C
but nowadays we grabbin' AKs
D
Em
she's expired 12 years old
and it's a damn shame
G
C
D
Layin' in the middle of the nary slain
G
C
It's takin' our broth
ers on a one -way ride
D
Em
Brothers are grinding,
Em
D
G
Oh, hardship an d pain
Em
D
G
It's hard, I know,
C
D
that's the way the street life goes
Em
G
Only a chosen few gon' make them
you can't play
D
Em
Gangsters die every day, it's a cold plot
Em
G
East Stokely, a cold city on the map
Em
G
Our praise is due to the creator
the systems corrupt
Em
G
Street life, is takin' our
D
Em
Brothers are grinding,
Em
G
D
G
Oh, hardship an d pain
Em
G
It's hard, I know
C
D
That's the way the street life goes
G
C
It's taking our brothers
Em
G
Brothers are grinding, mothers are trying
Em
G
Oh, heartache an d pain,
Em
G
It's hard, I know,
C
D
that's the way with the street life
Em
G
Oh, street life,
D
Em
Brothers are crying,
G
C
mothers are trying to raise their babies
Em
G
All the tears an d pain
C
D
That's the struggle of the street life pain
Em
G
It's hard, I know
C
D
That's the way the street life
Em
G
C
goes
D
Em
G
C
D
to make you successful and make that
what you talk about, success,
you keep them out front.
Yes sir.
And by you keeping them out front,
you carry the other ones
that don't mention it
so that they can be able to make it
because they wouldn't be able
to make it on their own
by putting themselves out front.
That's true.
Yes sir.
Do understand what
Yes sir.
So by us mentioning it in its proper way
is what makes them successful,
what makes the Creator
make them successful.
Oh yes sir.
You understand, if we join them,
then they won't be successful
and neither will we.
That's true, sir.
We will be successful in
showing a successful side
of what you're not there to do.
Yes, sir.
Is that not true?
That's true, sir.
So that's why I'd like to the President
of United States of America
to have the person there, Master J,
that they work through,
they can make things,
they're going to make you
always keep it out front.
Yes, sir.
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