2pac Cradle To The Grave Lyrics

Cradle To The Grave Lyrics

Chorus
From tha Cradle to the Grave, life ain't never been easy
Living in
the ghetto.
From the cradle to the grave, life ain't never been
easy
Living in the ghetto.
June 16, 1971
Mama gave birth
to a hell
raisin' heavanly son.
See the doctor tried to smack me
but I smacked him
back,
My first words were "thug for life"
and "Papa pass the Mac."
I'm
bustin' on these motha fuckas ballin'
Listen you can hear my mini 14
callin'.
From out the window of my drop top
I got my glock
cocked
bustin' at niggas
when will it stop ?
Now tell me are you
scared of the dark?
Can't close my eyes I see visions
And even with this
thug livin'
will I escape in prison ?
Penitentiary chances was an all day
thang
The only way to advance
and if you slang
Then you'd better have
your nikes on
Cause when we fight
it's in the middle of the night with no
lights on.
Hey!!
There must be a God cause I feel lucky,
Paranoid out
my mind
this motha fucka's tryin' to rush me.
Am I goin' to jail?
Look
at me bailin'
Commin' out the court house
all about mail [???].
Never
die
be a hustler mothafuckas
And makin' thugs out you suckas.
From the
cradle to the grave.
Chorus
From the cradle to the grave, life ain't never
been easy
Living in the ghetto. easy
From the cardle to the grave, life
ain't never been easy
Living in the ghetto.
From the cradle to the
grave
since a little bitty child
I've been known to get ill and kinda
buck wild.
Pop pop!
just like the part that's in my walk with street
talk
I'm runnin' up the block in the dark with less spark.
Survalience on
a nigga every day,
Waitin' on my daddy just to take his ass away.
Now Mama
always workin' tryin' to make ends meet.
So now a young niggas bein' raised
by the streets.
And then the on other one that ever showed me love
Was my
dope fiend uncle strung out on drugs
a striaght thug.
Just me, my mama out
here on our own
So I got two gatts
one black and one of chrome.
Now I
don't wanna hurt nobody but I must defend mine!
It's all the fuck I
got
so stop and walk a thin line.
Young niggas be brave
and keep on
thuggin' from the cradle to the grave,
From the cradle to the
grave.
Chorus
From the cradle to the grave, life ain't never been
easy
Living in the ghetto.
From the cradle to the grave, I'm glad to
say
I made it this far.
Many G's died hard
and all they got was their
name here up on a wall.
It's sad thinkin' about the times
Life goes on,
I'm steady lost in this land...
as the warzone I got no home
don't have
no friends neither.
It's just me by my lonely so I married my nina.
I
keeps her wherever I go,
I love my ho.
Never leave home with out my
sugar.
I'm hafta plug a nigga.
Mama told me not to trust no punks,
And
kick his ass if he lay a hand on me.
Since then I been known.
Sometimes I
think my own self stupid
Cause I stay shootin' at marks,
Get twisted up
in police reports.
Since the cradle, I've been ungreatful.
My first toy
was a gun
I got sprung and learn to love weapons.
But now I'm through
with money
and through with street fame.
Somebody peeled my cap and put
me in my grave.
Chorus
From the cradle to the grave, life ain't never
been easy
Living in the ghetto.
From the cradle to the grave, life ain't
never been easy
Living in the ghetto.
March 18th
a rainy day my mama
gave birth
To a baby boy trapped in hell on Earth.
From day one it wasn't
fun I never had a crumb.
Daddy worked two jobs and Mama won't stop drinkin'
rum.
I tried to cope loc
but my family's broke
And my pocket's
short
so now I gotta sling dope.
In a game filled with pain it's a
fuckin' shame,
The white man got a motha fucka slingin' cane.
So now it's
on from dusk to dawn I get my serve on.
Always in the spot with my glock
slingin' rocks at the rocks.
Shit don't stop I'm steady dodgin' cops.
I
never flip flop
hear my glock cock
thug till I drop.
And if I hit the
pen I gotta do my time
Sittin' on my bunk reminiscing about the good
times.
It's fucked up a nigga gotta grow up doing dirt,
But from the
cradle to the grave I'ma put in work.
Chorus
From the cradle to the
grave, life ain't never been easy
Living in the ghetto.
From the cradle
to the grave, life ain't never been easyy
Living in the ghetto.
Time's
movin' fast
will I last another day?
So I pray and I lay with my
A-K.
Did I sell my soul as a young kid?
All the things I did
Wishin'
someone held me
but they never did.
I can't take it
will I make it to
my older age?
Before I'm shot up or locked up in a fuckin' cage.
Lord
help me, guide me, save me!
Cause that's the way that Daddy raised
me
crazy.
Do or die. Nigga pull the trigger don't give a fuck.
You'd
rather be in jail than get your ass bucked.
Nobody cares, it's me against
the world.
Keepin' murder on my mind and my tech-9.
I got nothin' to
lose, payin' dues, nigga you wanna die?
I get high
then my mission is a
walk-by.
You'd better jet when I hit your set cause I'm commin'.
Start
runnin' yellin' "evil mind" as I'm gunnin'.
One in the chamber for the anger
that I build inside,
For the mothers that cried, for my homies that
died.
The begining is an ending, am I just a slave?
So I got to be brave
from the cradle to the grave.
Chorus til fade