Artist: 2Pac
Album:  The 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

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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

(Chorus)

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

(Chorus)

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