Artist: 2pac

Album: Show Soundtrack

Song: My Block

They got a nigga shedding tears

Reminiscin' on my past fears

Cuz shit was hectic for me last year

and it appears

That i've been marked for death

My heartless breath

The underlying causeing my arrest

My life is stressed

and no rest forever weary

My eyes stay teary for all tha brothas

That I buried in tha cemetery

Shit is scary

Black on black crime legendary

but at times unnessecary

i'm gettin' worried

teardrops and closed caskets

The blue strikes large drastics

and uncertain death

For us ghetto bastards

What can we do when we're arressted

But open fire

Life in tha penn ain't for me

cuz i'd rather die

but don't cry do or dispair

I wonder if tha lord still cares

For us niggas on welfare

and he cares if we survive

The only time he notice a nigga

Is when he clutching on a four-five

and my neighborhood ain't tha same

Cause all these little babies goin crazy

or they sufferin' in tha game

and I swear it's like a trap

But I ain't given up on tha hood

It's all good

When I go back

Hoes show me love

Niggas give me props

Forever hop cause it don't stop

on my block

Now shits constantly hot

On my block, it never fails to be gunshots

Can't explain a mothers pain

when her son drops

Black male livin' in hell

when will we prevail

fearin jail but crack sales

got me livin' well

and tha systems sucidal with this Thugs Life

Stayin' strapped and forever Trapped

In this Drug Life

God help me, cause i'm starvin'

Can't get a job

So I resort to violent robberies

My life is hard

Can't sleep cause all tha dirt

make my heart hurt

Put in work n' shed tears for my dead peers

mislead from childhood where I went astray

'Till this day I still pray for a better way

can't help but feel helpless and heart broke

From tha start I felt tha racism cause i'm dark

couldn't quit the bullshit make me represent

hit tha bar n' played tha star

Everywhere I went

and in my heart, I felt alone

Out here on my own

I close my eyes and picture home

On my block

And I can't help but wonder whhhy

So many young kids had to die

caught strays from AK's N' the drive-by

Swollen Pride and Homicide don't coincide

Brothers cry for broken lives

Mama come inside

cause our block is filled with danger

usta be a close knit community

but now we're all cold strangers

Time changes us to stone them crack pipes

All up and down tha block

Exterminatin' black life

But I can't blame tha dealers

My mamma's welfare check

Has bought tha next mans Chrome Wheels

Shits real, I know ya feel

My tragedy

A single mother with a problem child

Daddy free

Hangin out pickin up game

Sippin' cheap liquor

Gamin' tha hoochies hopin

I can get to sleep with her

It's a man's world

Stayin' Strapped fantasies of a nigga livin Phat

but held back

Pipe dreams can make tha night seem hopeless

Wide eyed and losin' focus

On My Block

And block parties in tha projects

lastin' way past daylight

a young nigga learned to break nine

usta play fight with my homies but they

stuck in tha penn

I send them ends

but it's tuff on a friend

in my mind

I see tha same motherfuckas ballin'

Alcohol will make a lazy nigga slip n' fall

miss his call

I know tha young niggas understand this

growing up in this world where everything is scandalous

I reminisce on tha fast times

past crimes

tryin' to cop a slice a pizza

with my last dime

I can't explain

Just what attracts me to this dirty game

Gold Chains, some extra change, and tha street fame

but what's strange is that

everybody knows my name

Swear they all know me

and lots a cash make a nigga change

I hit tha green just to maintain

Feelin' Pain

For all tha Niggas I lost

to tha game

from my block