Originally posted by DiabolusKlown
album: Thug Life
song: Cradle to the Grave
Listen you can hear my mini 14 callin'.
From out the window of my drop top
I got my glock cocked
bustin' at ni**as
when will it stop ?
when will it stop ?--that's an open ended question. Seems you miss the point of this song and, Cradle to the Grave is one of my favorite cuts...I
hate to see it butchered and taken out of context. Gotta break it down.
Its about what goes on, and the choices kids are forced to make before they are old enough to know the difference. Most lives are spent before wrong
seems wrong.
Each verse starts with birth straight to the streets then ends with either going to jail or dying. The cycle passed on from father to son. The whole
Thug Life crew on this one so I'ma just use Pac-Rated R-and Syke to show yall what I mean.
Pac starts:
Mama gave birth to a hell-raisin heavenly son
See the doctor tried to smack me but I smacked him back
My first words was "Thug for life," and "Papa pass the Mac."
Pac ends:
Am I goin to jail? Look at me bailin
Comin out the court house, all about my mail and bank
Never, never die I'll be a hustler mutherfuuckas
They makin thugs out you suckers from the cradle to the grave
Rated R starts:
From the cradle to the grave
I'm glad to say, I made it this far
Many G's died hogs and all they got was they name hit up on a wall
It's sad thinkin' about the times
Life goes on, I'm steady lost in this land
That's the war zone
Rated R ends:
My first toy was a gun I got sprung and learned to love weapons
But now I'm through with money, and through with street fame
Somebody peeled my cap, and put me in my grave
Syke starts:
Time's movin fast, will I last another day?
So I pray and I lay with my A-K
Did I sell my soul as a young kid?
All the things I did wishin someone held me but they never did
Syke ends:
One in the chamber for the anger that I build inside
For the mothers that cried, for my homies that died
The beginning is an ending, am I just a slave?
So I got to be brave from the cradle to the grave
Next time you wanna call Pac violent/thuggish pick something from All Eyez On Me--everything before that has a message. If you hit me up email or U2U
I'll give you a copy of the whole song so you can listen to it, and hopefully I cleared this up for those that haven't heard the song before.