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[00:06.86]Notorious B.I.G
[00:08.27]Everyday stuggle
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[00:20.53]I don't wanna live no mo'
[00:22.34]Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front do'
[00:24.67]I'm living everyday like a hustle
[00:26.60]Another drug to juggle,
[00:28.20]another day another struggle
[00:30.50]I don't wanna live no mo'
[00:32.29]Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front do'
[00:34.59]I'm living everyday like a hustle
[00:36.54]Another drug to juggle,
[00:38.26]another day another struggle
[00:40.71]I know how it feels to wake up fucked up
[00:42.56]Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell
[00:45.63]People look at you like you's the user
[00:47.79]Selling drugs to all the losers mad Buddha abuser
[00:50.62]But they don't know about the stress-filled day
[00:52.91]Baby on the way mad bills to pay
[00:55.11]That's why you drink Tanqueray
[00:56.87]So you can reminisce and wish
[00:58.05]You wasn't living so devilish s-shit
[01:00.65]I remember I was just like you
[01:02.54]Smoking blunts with my crew
[01:04.03]Flipping oldies 62's
[01:05.36]'Cause G-E-D was it B-I-G, I got P-A-I-D
[01:09.11]That's why my mom hates me
[01:10.80]She was forced to kick me out, no doubt
[01:12.66]Then I figured out Nick's went for twenty down south
[01:14.99]Packed up my tools for my raw power move
[01:17.58]Glock nineteen for casket and flower moves
[01:19.96]Four drunks trying to stop my flow
[01:22.69]And what they don't know will show on the autopsy
[01:25.61]Went to see papi, to cop me a brick
[01:27.72]Asked for circumcise and he wasn't trying to hear it
[01:30.24]Smoking mad Newports '
[01:31.69]cause I'm doing court for an assault
[01:33.39]That I caught in Bridge Port, New York
[01:35.16]Catch me if you can like the ginger bread man
[01:37.77]You better have your gat in hand
[01:39.65]'Cause man
[01:40.51]I don't wanna live no mo'
[01:41.91]Sometimes I hear death knocking in my front do'
[01:44.37]I'm living everyday like a hustle
[01:46.36]Another drug to juggle,
[01:47.92]another day another struggle
[01:50.18]I don't wanna live no mo'
[01:52.29]Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front do'
[01:54.47]I'm living everyday like a hustle
[01:56.33]Another drug to juggle,
[01:58.27]another day another struggle
[01:59.49]I had the master plan
[02:00.57]I'm in the caravan on my way to Maryland
[02:02.02]With my man Tutex to take over this projects
[02:05.17]They call him Tutex, he tote two techs
[02:07.54]And when he starts to bust
[02:10.15]He likes to ask who's next?
[02:10.78]I got my honies on the Amtrack
[02:12.17]With the crack in the crack of her ass
[02:13.78]Two pounds of hash in the stash
[02:15.71]I wait for hun to make some quick cash
[02:17.50]I told her she could be lieutenant bitch got gassed
[02:19.87]At last I'm literally lounging Black,
[02:22.50]Seating back counting double digit thousands stacks
[02:24.99]Had to re-up see what's up with my peeps
[02:27.37]Toyota dealer cars had it cheap on the jeeps
[02:29.84]See who got smoked but rumors was spread
[02:32.37]Last I heard I was dead with six to the head
[02:34.93]Then I got the phone call
[02:36.60]It couldn't hit me harder
[02:37.65]We got infiltrated
[02:38.74]Like lino wa' the car
[02:39.99]I heard Tec got murdered in a town I've never heard of
[02:42.40]By some bitch named Alberta over nickel-plated burners
[02:44.94]And my bitch swear to God she won't snitch
[02:47.33]I told her where she hit the bricks
[02:48.94]I'll make the hooker rich
[02:50.23]Conspiracy should be home in three
[02:52.35]Until them I look south for the home family
[02:54.90]A true G, that's me blowing like a bubble
[02:57.20]In the everyday struggle
[03:00.23]I don't wanna live no mo'
[03:01.91]Sometimes I hear death knocking in my front do'
[03:04.38]I'm living everyday like a hustle
[03:06.24]Another drug to juggle,
[03:08.29]another day another struggle
[03:15.94]I don't wanna live no mo'
[03:19.75]I'm seeing body after body and our mayor Giuliani
[03:22.22]Ain't trying to see no black man turn into John Gotti
[03:24.65]My daughter use a potty so she's older now
[03:27.15]Educated street knowledge I'ma mold 'er now
[03:29.52]Trick 'er little dope bying young girls tringes
[03:31.85]Dealing with the dope fiend binges
[03:34.20]Seeing syringes in the veins
[03:35.79]Hard to explain how I maintain
[03:37.49]The crack smoke makes my brain feel so strange
[03:39.86]Breaking days on the set no sweat from cold moet
[03:42.27]Can't bag yet because's still wet
[03:44.83]But when I dry back in five at a time
[03:47.22]I can clock about nine on the check cashing line
[03:50.17]I had to burst on the third
[03:51.61]Rehearse that's my word
[03:53.44]Thinking the game Ds knew my first name
[03:55.10]Should I quit? Shit no!
[03:56.49]Even though they had me scared
[03:58.10]Yo they gotta eight I gotta teck with air holes
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[04:01.16]That's just how the shit goes in the struggle mother fucker
[04:10.97]I don't wanna live no mo'
[04:12.73]Sometimes I hear death nocking in my front do'
[04:14.36]I'm living like a hustle
[04:16.48]Another drug in trouble, another day another struggle
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[04:19.90]I don't wanna live no mo'
[04:21.72]Sometimes I hear death nocking in my front do'
[04:24.14]I'm living like a hustle
[04:26.02]Another drug in trouble, another day another struggle
[04:30.37]I don't wanna live no mo'
[04:32.51]Sometimes I hear death nocking in my front do'
[04:34.17]I'm living like a hustle
[04:36.55]Another drug in trouble, another day another struggle
[04:39.17]
[04:39.82]I don't wanna live no mo'
[04:41.61]Sometimes I hear death nocking in my front do'
[04:44.13]I'm living like a hustle
[04:46.13]Another drug in trouble, another day another struggle