No I can't run, I can't hide from all this pressure

If I sell out that means I'm copping to a lesser charge

And whenever there's a will baby, there's a way

Each one teach one, I always say

The murder rate is rising, soceity ain't scaring me

Life is like a puzzle, ain't no telling when they'll bury be

They wanna tell me how to live

But I got dues to pay, now how much money you gon' give

For my PG and me bill, cause it's a week late

Leave the hustle alone, fool, don't procastanate

Cause I'm a get mine, and that's the way I was taught

Fool, now what you thought

That I was born and raised in a big house

While you would sleep up in the bed, I slept on the couch

I tried to study, but was often interrupted

Because the nieghborhood I'm from is so corrupted

Rats and roaches creeping through the cracks in my walls

While my folks down the street breaking plain and ball

Trying to count as much as they can count is like hell

Is kind of hard being raised off up in the cell

Get on your own, and get you some bizness, black

Stay sucker-free, and by all means, watch your back

You ain't gotta listen, but take it from your boy 4-Tay

Fool, you think you pormised another day?

Each peice of life is like a puzzle, can you slove 'em

Stress 'll drive you crazy tryin to deal with these problems

Problems, problems, how you gon' solve 'em

Man, I'm going crazy trying to deal with these problems

Each and every day on these streets, game is getting sicker

Thicker than a King-size snicker

And I know who's got the plug, don't need no witness

Cause your bizness ain't everybody elses bizness

Snitchers, and gothams, and gangstas, they're so keniving

In 1995, only the strong will survive and

Everytime I open up somethin', somebody wants some

So I could be broke, all on my lonesome

Too many critics, too many debators

And when they don't hire us, that makes me think they hate us

But that's just anothre problem pushing through my brain

That wouldn't change no matter how much I complained

How would you care if I was living on welfare

You act like you gon' move me and my family elsewhere

Allow me to make this conversation more concrete

Too many formalitys, and I find that so obsolete

But I'm a keep striving, cause it couldn't get no worse

Ain't robbing no banks or snatching nobody's purse

I finally made me a profit, so now I can really chill

Check my mailbox, Oh, too soon , there's my phone bill

Trying to look up for number 1, and that's my mother

If it ain't one thing fly, it's another

Each peice of life is like a puzzle, can you solve 'em

Stress 'll drive you crazy when your dealing with these problems

Problems, problems, how you gon' solve 'em

Man I'm going crazy tryin to deal with these problems

Each peice of life is like a puzzle, can you solve 'em

Stress 'll drive you crazy trying to deal with these problems

Problems, problems, how you gon' solve 'em

Man I'm going crazy trying to deal with these problems

Problems, problems, how you gon' solve 'em

I'm a handle mine

Problems, problems, how you gon' solve 'em

Take 'em one at a time