Testi Soundtracks :: P

No, I can’t run, I can’t hide from all of this pressure

If I sell out, that means I’m copping to a lesser charge

And whenever there’s a will, baby

There’s a way

Each one, teach one - I always say

The murder rate is rising, society can’t scare me

Life is like a puzzle, ain’t no telling when they’ll burry me.

They wanna tell me how to live

But I’ve got dues to pay

Now how much money you gonna give

For my PG and me bill, cos it’s a week late

Leave the hustler alone, fool don’t procrastinate

Because, I’m a get mine and that’s the way I was taught, fool

Now what you thought?

That I was born and raised in a big house

While you were asleep up in the bed

I slept on the couch

I tried to study but was often interrupted

Because the neighborhood I’m from is so corrupted

Rats and roaches creeping through the cracks in the walls

While my folks down the street, breaking plenty laws

Tried to count as much as they can count is like hell

It’s kind of hard being raised off up in the cell, get on your own

And get you some business, black

Stay sucker-free and by all means, watch your back

You ain’t gotta listen

But take it from your boy, 4-Tay, fool

You think you promised another day?



Each piece of life is like a puzzle, can you solve ‘em

Stress’ll drive you crazy when you’re dealing with these problems

Problems, problems - How you gonna solve ‘em

Man, I’m going crazy trying to deal with these problems



Each and every day on these streets, the game is gettin’ sicker

Thicker then a king-size snicker

And I know who’s got the plug, don’t need a witness

Cos your business ain’t everybody else’s business

Snichers, and gothams, and gangstas, they’re so conniving

In 1995, only the strong are surviving

Every time I open up something, somebody wants some

So I could be broke, all on my lonesome

Too many critics, too many debaters

And when they don’t hire us, that makes me think they hate us

But that’s just another problem pushing through my brain

And it wouldn’t change no matter how much I complain

Why would you care if I was living on welfare?

You act like you gon’ move me and my family elsewhere

Allow me to make this conversation more concrete

Too many formalities and I find that so obsolete

But I’m a keep striving cos it couldn’t get no worse

Ain’t robbing no banks or snatching nobody’s purse

I finally made me a profit so now I can really chill

Check my mail box, spoke too soon, there’s my phone bill

Trying to look out for number one and that’s my Mother

And if it ain’t one thing, fly, it’s another



Each piece of life is like a puzzle, can you solve ‘em

Stress’ll drive you crazy when you’re dealing with these problems

Problems, problems - How you gonna solve ‘em

Man, I’m going crazy trying to deal with these problems



Each piece of life is like a puzzle, can you solve ‘em

Stress’ll drive you crazy when you’re dealing with these problems

Problems, problems - How you gonna solve ‘em

Man, I’m going crazy trying to deal with these problems



Problems, problems - How you gonna solve ‘em

I’m a handle mine

Problems, problems - How you gonna solve ‘em

Take ‘em one at a time