[Intro] AF#mG#C#mAF#m
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
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I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
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Coz I've been blastin and laughin so long, that
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Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
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But I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
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Me be treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
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You better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
G#C#m
Or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
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I really hate to trip but I gotta, loc
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As I grow I see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
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I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
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On my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight
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Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
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Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
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Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
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Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
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They got the situation, they got me facin'
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I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the stripes
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So I gotta be down with the hood team
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Too much television watching got me chasing dreams
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I'm an educated fool with money on my mind
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Got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
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I'm a loc'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
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And my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
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Death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away
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I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
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I'm twenty-three now, but will I live to see twenty-four
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The way things are going I don't know
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Tell me why are we, so blind to see
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That the one's we hurt, are you and me
AF#mG#C#m
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
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Power in the money, money in the power
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Minute after minute, hour after hour
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Everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
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What's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
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They say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
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If they can't understand it, how can they reach me
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I guess they can't, I guess they won't
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I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool
AF#mG#C#m
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Keep spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
AF#mG#C#m
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
AF#mG#C#m
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
AF#mG#C#m
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
AF#mG#C#m
That the one's we hurt, are you and me