Cityyyyyy Lifeee

I'm walking down the block

I'm in the cityscape

Chasing down a break-out

Here to meet my fate

Every day is new

Every day is change

Half of us just ain't the type, something's re-arranged

Stores come and go

Stories write themselves

Neighbors lived in Heaven

Now they in a living Hell

This city has a life

A life that's over-thrown

That neighborhood was lied to

It died, dead and gone

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own

I'm still payin' rent for a suburban house

In the past five years, and they be spacing me out

Lay low, take my rent, got to represent

I'm out here havin' a stroke lookin' for a place to rest

Now the rent is risin' every place I look

And every landlord I'm meeting is lookin' like a crook

They just want my money, don't care if I can pay

They don't care if I starve out here in this street

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own

Some of these neighborhoods, they out here packin' heat

They shootin' little kids like accidents out in the street

They shootin' door-to-door, they say it's not my fault

Cop shoot 'em in the car, lock 'em in the vault

They want you in the court, the judge condemns your sins

They lock you up, you know you never comin' back again

Sometimes it only once, most of us shrug it off

Ready to win the game, the leader was ahead of us

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own

This is the city life

This is the place I roam

This is the place where I reside and I just call my own