Caught Up In The Game

Lyrics

[Intro] Yo, society just can't understand A black man living in the ghetto with no plans This is universal thoughts for all beings seeing what I'm seeing So you can realize....and recognize This how it goes down [Gravedigga] It started all off at 13 breaking all the rules Cutting school to burn it up at my brother's school Not a bonafide money taker yet But learning fast about all the things that dirt gets Roaming the streets with my peeps in the evening Creepin, ice pick up my Pacific Trail sleeve and Sometimes just beating people for the hell of it I was so young that getting locked was irrelevant Getting older fast, taking cash on the street Breaking in mailboxes on the first and fifteenth And yo my favorite was the orange box cutter Just opening it up would scare the shit up out a sucker Totin' shanks and shit, talking about murder At the age of 15, I got my very first burner, now It's time to get it on with society Quick to clip on any punk nigga that be eyein' me (Chorus) L'ickle bad boy youth, who went against the grain Trying to make a little name, got caught up in the game I didn't realize I was part of the statistics Why didn't someone kick the ballistics [Fish B.One] When I turned sixteen kid, I thought I knew it all I followed no man yo, I made my own laws So I started moving with a clique of sick juveniles We're caught up in the system with rap sheets for miles I got drug possessions and burglaries I got A1 felonies with a string of armed robberies It doesn't matter, we're too young to do a bid Doing adult crimes, being charged as a kid I slid in new directions, I got cash on my mind Seventeen now, I need cream and that's the bottomline It ain't hard to find just link up with one of my mans Someone who's real, somebody I consider fam So my man shank, he make mad bank He drive from South Click to New York with fake gas tanks With dope and marijuana He's mad paid and still lives in Gowanus Amongst the sharks and the pirahanas So I got with em now my pockets looking right Until we got stopped one night jumping on the turnpike Flashing lights is behind us, he said that we'll be fine Now here they come with a team of drug sniffing canines I guess I'll never see the Condo with two-car garages I dropped my head and said I wish I never caught those charges This is for all the brothers that want to see green But not Green Correctional Facility Just keep your head up and make that cream And duck that man to the best of your ability [B.D. Buggz] They got me caught up God damn they caught me slippin They got me locked up, 5 to 15 for that last shipment Called my mama and my shorty, told them daddy's been naughty People do the dammest things when they filled with fortys I'm twenty one, I'm a man now, so I can stand trial now Regret living the life of a foul child WORD! maybe being a nerd would've been cool When I reminisce on school Back in the day, when I used to break mad fool Now I'm locked in the cell, no bail, who's catching hell You turn up dead, forget my girl, she ain't sending no mail They try to play ya, I hang ya, I keep my banger Ridin' on prison bustas, giving judges the middle finger I blame my father sometimes should've taught me the math Put me on that ole' straight path, and I'da known the half Word to mother, my mama, she tried to teach me My uncle tried to preach too but he ain't get through Me and my crimeys had street degrees Jerked each other my brother, there's no honor among thieves So I participated in the paper chase It was all a waste, cause now I'm caught up in the wrong place Crime rules everything around me (What) Catching charges, mama bail me out now (Chorus) L'ickle bad boy youth, who went against the grain Trying to make a little name, got caught up in the game I didn't realize I was part of the statistics Why didn't someone kick the ballistics (2x)