monkey on my back

, shit, shit fucked up man, my nigga can't win for losing out here, he take 3 steps forward and take 4 steps backwards, damn!, i can't shake this shit man, you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back, i got that monkey on my back, uh! hey!, have you ever been fucked up?, down bad on your luck?, lost your last, now you stuck in the hood, while you know it's the streets signs, all you hear is police sirens, grind so hard, that your feet tired, i was celebrated my birthday when lil' heat died. found out in the worst way, now it's beef time, and my mama was in prison when she heard i got hit, i heard how she cried, fucked me up deep inside, if nowadays a nigga hustling, they police now, a nigga told on fat and took zeke down, shit will never be the same, that's why the streets crying, but i'm a keep trying, i'm just trying keep that monkey off my back. you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. shit so real when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel. and i remember this like it was yesterday, when lil' daddy and lil' sam went to make that play, damn i wish lil' sam ain't had to kill him, humbug situation from the beginning, but how is you going to say a nigga snitching?, when you caught on camera trust me they don't need no witness, i thought we had understanding before your sentence?, i told you i was praying for you, i ain't got nothing against you, sometimes that's just how the dice roll when that's how we living, you got to learn to keep them bitches out your business, and lil' daddy mane you got to start paying attention, that's the reason i ain't friendly, i'm just trying keep that monkey off my back, you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. shit so real when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel. and i done robbed, and i done stole, and i done did the whole nine, i done made a couple moves, what goes around comes around, coke up at my uncle house. ran out with a couple pounds, next day, i found out, grandma would be no longer around. and i just wish that she can see me now, i miss you. i swear i'd do whatever just to see you smile, i've been hurt by plenty niggas, they want to see me down, same niggas i swim with, they want to see me drown, the same niggas i had love for. the same niggas i broke bread with, them niggas cross me out for crumbs, but i ain't tryin to make em famous. they should forever remain nameless, there's a thin line between love and hatred and i don't hate you, i'm just trying keep that monkey off my back. you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. shit so real when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel when a nigga got that monkey on his back. you don't know how it feel. rest in peace to everybody we lost, free all the real niggas locked up, like i said before, these the street scriptures, baby jesus, nigga!