Yeah  Respect this    [ CHORUS ]  Look, I got my stripes up in this rap shit  My life is like a rollercoaster, up and down quick  Cloudy grey days hide away the sun rays  My only escape is to kneel and pray or smoke hay  Everyday    [ VERSE 1: Eightball ]  Thug livin', nigga, ain't nobody promised tomorrow  Ain't no second chance to live, it ain't no time to borrow  Money in these streets, trouble in these streets  I'm tryin to school these niggas deep within these beats  Life is for learnin, learn and live, nigga  What the world hold for me and all my real niggas?  The studio is where we meet up like a holy church  Worshippin the spirits of them niggas who done been here first  And give it all to them young niggas who come after us  And don't give nothin to them boys that's out here fakin tough  Project livin ain't no fly shit, I don't wanna go back  And I pray for all my niggas who can't do better than that    [ CHORUS ]    [ VERSE 2: Eightball ]  I live it how it come to me, good or bad  I got to deal with it, this ain't no movie, see  When the gunshot spray ain't no tellin if a stray  Gonna put one of my little bitty sons in his grave  My nigga in the hood used to kick shit and do his thang  Now that nigga in a wheelchair, damn, ain't that fucked up, mane?  Maye it was somethin comin back from somethin that he did  Maybe that was God's way of tellin him he need to quit  I don't know, I know he think about that shit everyday though  What he did to make his life go the way that it go  Every nigga can't be blingin, Navigatin' on doubs  How many niggas really got a lot of stacks put up?  How many niggas got five cars and no house?  Hustlin' like a slave tryin to shut your baby mama mouth  Long as you hustle ain't nothin impossible, my nigga  Then when you get it give it back cause you can't take it witcha    [ CHORUS ]    Yeah  Ah-ha  Yeah  Eightball the Fat Mack  Fatboy  Eightball & MJG  Space Age Pimpin from way back, baby  You know what I'm sayin?  Yeah  CEO on the streets  Commander in Chief, baby  You know what I'm talkin about  From Orange Mound streets all over the world  East coast, West coast, overseas  This pimpin just ain't a whole lot, baby  I got my stripes up in this rap shit  Yeah