It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a... Fuck the DA, fuck the P.O, fuck the president, fuck the Po-po They follow me, wanna keep me close, try to hold me back, let me go I sip the drank, I sip the drank, pick up the phone and call Michel'le She hold me down, I gotta make the plan, if the plan don't get me, then I don't care Look in my eyes and tell me what you see, a whole lot of lives depended on me But I hold it down, I hold it down, I check in when I'm not in town Put on a smile girl, put on a smile, it's a lot on my shoulders, I gotta balance it out Put on a smile girl, put on a smile, I take care of you and that child It's harder for a real nigga (hey) It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a... Gotta go to the courthouse, judge ain't giving a fuck, oww My fingerprints is they evidence, what the fuck I'ma do now? So hold me tight, hold me close, my lifestyle got me doin' the most Fuck that, let's make a toast, the Lord keep us alive, he never take our soul I'm prayin' up, I'm prayin' up, this a must that I can't sleep, I stay up Pops told me to change up but if I change up they gonna say I changed up When everybody depend on you, you got nobody to run to You got nobody to come through, when they finally come through you feel like fuck you It's harder for a real nigga (hey) It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a real nigga It's ten times harder for a... Lord (Lord), please (please give), give us the life (gimme life), we need (life we need), please (please Lord)