Lifestyles Of The Rich & Shameless

(album: Legal Drug Money - 1996)

[Intro:]
[Freaky Tah]
Everybody's buckin, don't give it a damn
everbody...everbody [echo]

[Verse 1]
[Mr. Cheeks]
Straight from cop killer Queens
a juvenile named Jack (Jack)
at the age of 17 (uh huh)
yo this kid Jack started slingin crack (started slingin crack)
he's on the road to riches (riches)
baggin bitches (bitches)
he's in clubs takin pitchers
drink your finger always into sess
his lifestyles buckwild honey child (yeah
got a shorty named Val (Val)
she stays on the Isle (ahhh
he started slingin at the age of 17 (uhh huh)
his hearts made of steel (eh yo)
kid his minds full of green (full of green)
he got his first ounce
made a grand 400 (hundred)
3 bills to get fresh
he other bills to get blunted (to be blunted)
and wit the letter G (G)
he bought the letter O (O)
next thing you know man
he's rakin in the dough (rakin in the dough)
he put his people down
cuz say thats only right (aight)
for dem to get keys
dem and dem is mad tight (is mad tight)
set-up organation organize on the block organize...block
nobody's slingin on the block
eh yo we got this block on lock
and it's the.... (huh)

[Chorus]
Lifestyles of the rich & shameless (shameless)
some die wit the name (wit the name)
some die nameless (some die nameless)
it's all the same game (It's on)
it's all the same pain (It's on)
it's all the same pain (It's On)
it's all the same game (It's On)

[Verse 2]
The verse 2's
about this girl named Yvette (Vette)
she lived out in Queens
pushed the red Corvette (Corvette)
she's pumpin weight (uh huh)
in and outta state (in and outta state)
outta state license plate (eh yo)
see her lifestyle is straight weight (hah)
she's into lickin shots (yeah)
stickin blocks gotta shorty on the team (uhh huh)
shortie's into pickin locks
makin G's takin trips cross seas (seas)
just enough to be flashin
cash they be stashin (hah)
she's wit the cats (huh huh)
they love packin gats (huh)
bulletproof vest bulletproof baseball hats
her and the queens stay right gettin high too
Lex, Coups and Jeep (ahh)
got beeps can & lai brew (brew)
it's all the same shame (huh)
just a different name (huh)
shorty's sniffin cane (huh)
just to maintain (huh)
to a nice shorty rock O-D'd (shorty what who O-D's)
bring me the chorus (shoulda chilled)
pass me the weed (I would pass the weed)

[Chorus]

[Verse 3]
I used to hustle up on Linden in the van
me and my man did that thing hand in hand
20 bills up huhhuh
but verse itt
time to rap but the fiends kept commin back
I'm tryin to put my lifestyle in order (aight)
the games mad deep
I keep my feet above the water (above the water)
caught a bid got a wife and kid (huh)
the name just burned in the flame (huh)
so out the game I slid (slid)
so now I'm into makin hits wit my men (huh)
I hustle wit my style (huh)
cook up works wit my pen (true)
Mr. Cheeks represent in the gutter (gutter)
Freaky Tah gettin lai thats my brudda (that's my brudda)
In the game (huh)
and hit you in the brain (huh)
and if I was cocaine (huh)
believe it I'm your main (huh)

Tally up it's the Lost Boyz crew an
Freaky Tah, Spigg Nice and Pretty Lou an..

[Chorus/Outro]