Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Peace to my street niggas My hand in hand dudes That follow man rules And give out samples Yea, see I was you 10 years ago But bloodshed, time served many years ago Brown skin but I could mix with a spanish group (why?) I'm half of that, so half of that you can't recoup You can't find nothing to live for You should find something to die for, therefore You should never hang around thieves 'Cause you are who you hang with Like trees to the leaves I used to sell dope to the dope fiends And crack to the crack heads by all means Hustling, getting money was a part of me Right through my blood, like some veins and the arteries Apparently, the streets for the love wanna marry me Down the alley, carry me Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I got the dope man blues Still out here playin dope man dudes So come and take a walk off in my dope man shoes So I can show you motherfuckers how the dope man do Got niggas I've been down with deep What I say that they down, don't sleep Ask you got bloodstained hands, for my homeboys I lost to this fucked up plan Goddamn, I think if I had one last wish I want rance up out this shit And resurrect the ones run down, in the streets gunned down, Put the slick one round now Imagine your cocaine sold out You get reckless and get your brains blown out Street life's so deep and we might not eat A dead man won't speak and revenge is so sweet Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do Yea, I grew up like the rag of the dark, so what? Soldier, proud about it, that's just what I gotta do