Real Ni**a Blues (Feat. Lil' Papa Roach)-Scarface

[ti:Real Ni**a Blues (Feat. Lil' Papa Roach)] [ar:Scarface] [al:Balls & My Word] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.13]Damn its hard being a real ni**a [00:04.40] [00:05.31]Clutching on steal triggers [00:06.57] [00:07.10]Pouring kool-aid on hilfigers [00:08.57]For niggaz I cut for [00:09.49] [00:10.62]Pull a hoe out my truck for [00:12.04] [00:12.73]Take a bullet to my gut for [00:14.51]Shoot up your cuz for [00:15.95]And ni**a you askin' me what for [00:17.25] [00:18.65]'Cuz this check I wrote until death won't bounce [00:20.61] [00:21.61]'Cuz to quit is to care and excuses don't count [00:23.76] [00:24.81]Yeah the real ni**a blues [00:27.07] [00:27.82]Short sticks and long brooms [00:29.46] [00:30.13]Two feet planted whether [00:31.48]It be the tomb or the courtroom [00:32.73] [00:33.74]Bullet wounds in my flesh [00:35.40]Powder burns I digest [00:36.43] [00:37.17]On the front line I press [00:38.72]Until in peace I may rest [00:40.75] [00:42.51]For battles I can't win [00:43.57] [00:44.20]With stripes I must defend [00:45.36] [00:46.00]Done been to the pen behind friends [00:48.00]And I still can't turn my flags in [00:50.50] [00:52.17]When you break weak I got to stand strong [00:53.99] [00:54.85]I strive to go hard while you strive to go home [00:57.24] [00:58.22]These checks I write are required day and night [01:00.56] [01:01.08]For better or worse ups and downs [01:02.85]Or just plain old fist fights [01:04.32] [01:05.41]Packin' all the weight [01:06.24]Puttin' in work from birth [01:07.84]Running myself in the dirt [01:09.21]And you askin' me why my back hurt [01:11.28]Even when your dad tried to give me some fish [01:14.71]I eighty-sixed that sh*t [01:16.11]Pulled your coat but you was scared to dismiss that b**ch [01:19.69]But I guess you got to be one of me or walk in my shoes [01:23.94] [01:24.94]Or drink from the cup that I drink to feel my blues [01:27.43]Yeah the real ni**a blues [01:30.40] [01:31.53]I can't bend brake front fraud [01:34.19]Fold or get hacked [01:34.99] [01:35.64]Its like I'm married to this game [01:37.70]And my team looses if I get sacked [01:39.19]Turning down licks on niggaz [01:41.34]I know ain't got no heart [01:42.70]Arguing with my baby momma [01:45.04]Because shes convinces you'z a mark [01:46.95] [01:48.01]My word is my bond my life is my son [01:50.81]My duece is my gun [01:51.78]And my fear is to have none [01:53.53]'Cuz I refuse to run [01:54.88] [01:56.22]And for my honor I'd die [01:57.48]And for my mother I'd lie [01:59.53]My heart done got hard [02:01.12]I still show regards call out to the Lord [02:04.22]But it seems like I can't cry [02:05.84]So when bullets fly [02:07.71]Yeah its my fault [02:09.88] [02:10.73]Locked in with no way out [02:12.56]F**k some clout this is what I'm about [02:14.42]Even if I am the only one to get caught [02:16.85]It ain't in me to back down [02:19.15]Thats like laying my gat down [02:21.41]Ni**a I ride for the cause [02:23.25]And I hide from the laws [02:24.67]And I ain't scared to get ragged on [02:26.68]And for my crown yeah [02:29.58] [02:30.42]Caps gonn peal [02:31.19] [02:31.84]I ain't no threat ni**a but I will kill [02:33.87]And to all my partners up under them hills [02:36.49]Y'all know how it feels and thats real [02:38.71]Yeah dig these blues [02:41.08] [02:42.41]The real ni**a blues [02:43.29] [02:45.05]Dig this [02:45.52] [02:46.94]My partners hit a lick for two and a half bricks [02:49.29] [02:50.36]And since I'm the cornerstone of the clique [02:52.62]They came to me when the sh*t got thick [02:54.40] [02:55.52]I took in all their evidence and made it mine [02:57.88] [02:58.84]Not realizing that while they were ballin' [03:00.32]I'd be doing time [03:01.27] [03:02.80]All they had to do was push the witness out of existence [03:05.84]And I would've walked because the case was inconsistent [03:08.30] [03:09.83]But insted they got caught up in the joys [03:11.88]Of the fruit from the hussle [03:12.88]Said f**k me let the witness live [03:15.54] [03:16.17]And I got twenty five years [03:17.56]All 'cuz I kept it real [03:19.09]A mark would've squeeled [03:21.20] [03:21.84]But insted I chilled put it on the pill [03:24.17]But got chofferred in a deal [03:25.56]See I respect the code of the streets [03:28.08]The code of the jeeks [03:29.34]But when they gave it to me they said 'F**k the police' [03:32.33]We'll never help these hoes solve a case [03:35.07]Now tears in my sons face [03:37.70]Because his daddy is out of place [03:39.60]With no trace of my peers [03:41.14]Missing my little ni**a younger years [03:43.74]All because I kept it real [03:45.39] [03:47.06]Regrets [03:47.35] [03:49.20]Sometimes have some [03:50.16] [03:51.42]I'ma walk when me time come [03:52.99] [03:53.85]It wasnt my prints on the gun [03:55.22] [03:55.86]In yo' eyes you'z a real ni**a [03:57.98]So what you would've done [03:59.11] [04:00.42]Stand strong [04:00.97] [04:02.34]I'm not surprised [04:03.15] [04:04.04]I was in the county camoflauging my cries [04:06.16] [04:06.73]Squabbling niggaz twice my size [04:08.25] [04:08.93]For mistaking tears for fears in my eyes [04:10.93] [04:12.31]But I ain't ask to be real [04:14.24]I was born like this [04:15.27] [04:16.35]Sacrificing my fo' sho's for your maybes [04:18.88]Got me scorned like this [04:20.42]Tattered and torn like this [04:21.67] [04:22.56]But my roots won't pluck [04:23.78] [04:24.77]I'm the only reason your tooth won't buck [04:26.66] [04:27.76]But is my authenticy worth the price I be paying [04:30.22] [04:31.01]All the sh*t I've been through [04:32.25]Ni**a do it look like I'm playing [04:33.94] [04:34.78]I'ma be down 'til I get laid down [04:36.40] [04:37.38]All the ex-real niggaz would've still be real [04:39.57] [04:40.30]Only if they would've stayed down [04:41.75] [04:43.12]But these my blues [04:43.98]I just spread the news to who I choose [04:46.66]A tale of a real ni**a [04:48.60]Can you dig his blues [04:50.44] [04:51.39]Yeah the real ni**a blues [04:53.39] [04:54.55]And all I got are my balls and my word [04:56.58] [04:57.55]Yeah my balls and my word