On Tha Outside Lookin' In

[MJG]

The hammer hit the table leaving me with 7 years

My history was shit so I could'nt shed a tear

My future was a wall, surrounded by a cage

Them laws got me locked down damn at an early age

The only thing I got is a lust for the streets, the shit I gotta learn

And the shit I gotta teach

I'm living for the minute, muthaf**k a whole hour

And I aint pickin shit up when It falls in the shower

My lady sends me pictures with her pussy in the air,

But she aint really there

So I don't really care

The only thing I got is a muthaf**kin dinner

So f**k what I had, 'cause where I'm at I'm a beginner

I gots to be a winner in this muthaf**kin mix up

Get my shit together, scope it out and try to fix up

Some confidence to keep a real nigga going strong,

The system is my house, the system is my home,

The system was designed to keep a brotha on his back

The system crackers caught me that's exactly where I'm at

My lawyer was a snitch, got me framed started buggin

My muthaf**kin phone and the judge was his cousin

It's hard thinkin positive with negative around me

So I had to relate to the grounds that surrounded thee

House and The Mound where I chill

With the niggaz who respected a real nigga

'Cause MJG respect them too

So I had to survive living my life with the street rule "stay cool"

Disregard school and make my money fool, check it

It's hard to understand where I'm comin from if you on the outside talkin shit

Lookin in, then again if you was on the inside lookin out, 9 times outta 10

You would probably be my friend

Nigga how you figure, the system's gonna help ya

The ghetto's where they put ya, the ghetto's where they kept ya

See deep down in my heart I had this urge to go astray

And knock out all my problems in one ordinary day

The system got me thinkin 'cause I'm locked down in a tank

They saw a brotha strokin, so they had to make his ship sank

So I can't get mixed up with them devils or no other

With Ani... mosity I hate when It's a brother, none other

Than a buck, duck, hoodle up, shootin up thangs in the wind

I'm in the Pen, you outside lookin in