Eightball - Stripes lyrics

rate me

Yeah<br />

Respect this<br />

<br />

[ CHORUS ]<br />

Look, I got my stripes up in this rap shit<br />

My life is like a rollercoaster, up and down quick<br />

Cloudy grey days hide away the sun rays<br />

My only escape is to kneel and pray or smoke hay<br />

Everyday<br />

<br />

[ VERSE 1: Eightball ]<br />

Thug livin', nigga, ain't nobody promised tomorrow<br />

Ain't no second chance to live, it ain't no time to borrow<br />

Money in these streets, trouble in these streets<br />

I'm tryin to school these niggas deep within these beats<br />

Life is for learnin, learn and live, nigga<br />

What the world hold for me and all my real niggas?<br />

The studio is where we meet up like a holy church<br />

Worshippin the spirits of them niggas who done been here first<br />

And give it all to them young niggas who come after us<br />

And don't give nothin to them boys that's out here fakin tough<br />

Project livin ain't no fly shit, I don't wanna go back<br />

And I pray for all my niggas who can't do better than that<br />

<br />

[ CHORUS ]<br />

<br />

[ VERSE 2: Eightball ]<br />

I live it how it come to me, good or bad<br />

I got to deal with it, this ain't no movie, see<br />

When the gunshot spray ain't no tellin if a stray<br />

Gonna put one of my little bitty sons in his grave<br />

My nigga in the hood used to kick shit and do his thang<br />

Now that nigga in a wheelchair, damn, ain't that fucked up, mane?<br />

Maye it was somethin comin back from somethin that he did<br />

Maybe that was God's way of tellin him he need to quit<br />

I don't know, I know he think about that shit everyday though<br />

What he did to make his life go the way that it go<br />

Every nigga can't be blingin, Navigatin' on doubs<br />

How many niggas really got a lot of stacks put up?<br />

How many niggas got five cars and no house?<br />

Hustlin' like a slave tryin to shut your baby mama mouth<br />

Long as you hustle ain't nothin impossible, my nigga<br />

Then when you get it give it back cause you can't take it witcha<br />

<br />

[ CHORUS ]<br />

<br />

Yeah<br />

Ah-ha<br />

Yeah<br />

Eightball the Fat Mack<br />

Fatboy<br />

Eightball & MJG<br />

Space Age Pimpin from way back, baby<br />

You know what I'm sayin?<br />

Yeah<br />

CEO on the streets<br />

Commander in Chief, baby<br />

You know what I'm talkin about<br />

From Orange Mound streets all over the world<br />

East coast, West coast, overseas<br />

This pimpin just ain't a whole lot, baby<br />

I got my stripes up in this rap shit<br />

Yeah