Lyrical Gangsta - The Hacker Backstage
Backstage Pass Part TWO

keep starin at this screen
typin my way towards reachin that American dream
waiting for life to cut to a new scene
was just yesterday i was just a young teen
adulthood hit, along with that need to make green

now I when I stress, I pop a couple of codeine
continuin' tryin' a make ends meet to keep us off the street
rhymes keep a flowin' just kickin' with a new beat
this white boy got skills and is turnin up the heat
fuck the world i worked my ass off to get where im at
talk some more shit you'll hear my fist go splat
i run this web without a pack
i posess the talent and tactics that them bloggers lack
listen to what i say cuz the LYRICAL GANGSTA is BACK

to be continued.....

Coolio Gangster's Paradise Lyrics

As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
cause I've been dissin' and laughin so long, that
most the world thinks that my mind is gone
but I ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
they treated like a punk you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you're talking, and where you're walking
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
I really hate to trip but i got it on lock
As I Grow I see myself on the ground, pistol still smokin, fools
I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night, saying prayers in the streetlight

been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise

It was the situation, they had me facin'
I can't live a normal life, I was raised in orange stripes
so I gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watching got me paranoid dreams
I'm an educated fool with money on my mind

got my mouse in my hand and a glimmer in my eye
I'm a lock'd out gangsta set trippin' banger
and my homies is down so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nothing but a heartbeat away,
I'm living life, do or die, what can I say
I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24
the way things are going I don't know

[Chorus:]

Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise

Power and the money, money and the power
minute after minute, hour after hour
everybody's running, but half of them ain't looking
what's going on in the kitchen, but I don't know what's kickin'
they say I gotta learn, but nobody's here to teach me
if they can't undersstand it, how can they reach me
I guess they can't, I guess they won't
I guess they front, that's why I know my life is out of luck, fool

been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most their lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
spending most our lives, living in the gangsta's paradise
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me
Tell me why are we, so blind to see
That the one's we hurt, are you and me

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