[ti:It Ain't Easy] [ar:2Pac] [al:Me Against The World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:03.50]Keepin it real [00:04.31] [00:20.63]I take a shot of Henessey now I'm strong enough to face the madness [00:24.07]Nickel bag full of sess w**d laced with hash [00:26.63]Phone calls from my niggaz on the other side [00:29.20]Two childhood friends just died I couldn't cry [00:32.38]A damn shame when will we ever change [00:35.07]And what remains from a twelve gauge to the brain [00:37.81]Arguements with my Boo is true [00:39.63]I spend mo' time with my niggaz than I do with you [00:42.38]But everywhere it's the same thang that's the game [00:45.19]I'll be damned if a thang changed f**k the fame [00:47.69]I'll be hustling to make a mill-ion lord knows [00:50.32]Ain't no love for us ghetto children so we cold [00:53.13]Rag top slowin down time to stop for gas [00:55.75]Beep my horn for a hoochie with a proper a** uhh [00:58.94]It ain't easy that's my motto [01:01.06]Drinkin Tanqueray straight out the bottle [01:03.63]Everybody wanna know if I'm insane [01:05.38]My baby mama gotta mind full of silly games [01:07.94]And all the drama got me stressin like I'm hopeless I can't cope [01:11.69]Me and the homies smokin roaches cause we broke [01:14.38]Late night hangin out til the sunrise gettin high [01:17.25]Watchin the cops roll by [01:19.46]It ain't easy that's right [01:24.83]It ain't easy being me [01:27.52]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [01:30.83]It ain't easy being me [01:32.78]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [01:36.09]It ain't easy being me [01:37.90]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [01:40.90]I can't sleep niggaz plottin on to kill me while I'm dreamin [01:43.71]Wake up sweaty and screamin cause I can hear them suckers schemin [01:46.65]Probably paranoid problem is them punks be fantasizin [01:49.02]A brother bite the bullet open fire and I died [01:51.27]I wonder why this the way it is even now [01:53.96]Lookin out for these killer kids cause they wild [01:56.65]Bill Clinton can you recognize a ni**a representin [01:59.27]Doin twenty to life in San Quentin [02:01.65]Gettin calls from my ni**a Mike Tyson ain't nuttin nice [02:05.02]Yo 'Pac do something righteous witcha life [02:07.33]And even thou you innocent you still a ni**a so they figure [02:10.08]Rather have you behind bars than triggers [02:12.15]But I'm hold ya down and holla Thug Life lickin shots [02:15.21]Til I see my niggaz free on the block [02:17.46]But no it ain't easy hahahah [02:20.46]Til I see my niggaz free on the block oh [02:23.27]It ain't easy [02:25.96] [02:29.27]It ain't easy being me [02:31.08]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [02:34.33]It ain't easy being me [02:36.34]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [02:39.71]It ain't easy being me [02:41.40]Will I see the penitentiary or will I stay free [02:44.46]Lately been reminiscin [02:45.02]Bout Peppermint Schnapps in Junior High hit the block [02:47.07]Keep an eye on the cops while D-Boys slang rocks [02:49.63]It's the project kid without a conscience I'm havin dreams [02:52.76]Of hearin screams at my concerts me all my childhood peers [02:56.01]Through the years tryin to stack a little green [02:58.38]I was only seventeen when I started servin fiends [03:00.82]And I wish there was another way to stack a dollar [03:03.32]So my apoli' casue these hard times make me wanna holler [03:06.13]Will I live to see tommorrow am I fallin off [03:08.63]I hit the w**d and then proceed to say f**k all of y'all [03:11.26]Ain't nobody down with me I'm thuggin I can't go home [03:13.95]Cause muh-f**kers think I'm buggin so now I'm in [03:16.32]This high powered cell at the county jail [03:18.63]Punk judge got a grudge can't post no bail what [03:21.39]Do I do in these county blues [03:23.95]Gettin battered and bruised by the you know who [03:26.57]And these fakes get to shakin when they face me [03:29.32]Snakes ain't got enough nuts to replace me [03:31.57]Sittin in this livin hell listenin to niggaz yell [03:34.95]Tryin to torture em to tell I'm gettin mail [03:37.70]But ain't nobody sayin much the same old nuts [03:40.45]Is makin bucks while these sluts is gettin f**ked [03:42.70]They violated my probation and it seems [03:45.45]I'll be goin on a long vacation meanwhile [03:48.57]It ain't easy [03:52.88]No it ain't easy