Hold on... *lighter flicks up*

Yeah it's gonna be alright, don't trip baby *inhales*

It'll get better... *coughing*



Ay do this Thug style main, Thug style

When this whole beat drop we just gon' run it to em bet

It's all good, uhh



I never had much, ran with a bad bunch

Little skinny kid sneakin weed in my bag lunch

And all through Junior High, we was just gettin by

And drivebys robbed my homies of their young lives

I never did cry, and even though I had

pain in my heart, I was hopeless from the start

They couldn't tell me nothin, they all tried to help to help me

The marijuana had my mind gone it wasn't healthy

I travelled places, caught cases, what a ill year

I felt the pain and the rain but I'm still here

Never did like the police, let the whole world know

Now I gets no peace, cause they chasin me down

And facin me now, what do I do?

These thangs that a Thug goes through

And still I rise so keep ya head up, and make ya mind strong

It's a struggle every day but you gotta hold on



Chorus: repeat 4X



Hold on, be strong, hold on

Be strong, hold on

When it's on it's on



There's, never a good day, cause in my hood they

let they AK's pump strays where the kids play

And every Halloween, check out the murder scene

Can't help but duplicate the violence seen on the screen

My homies dyin 'fore they get to see they birthdays

These is the worst days, sometimes it hurts to pray

And even God turned his back on the ghetto youth

I know that ain't the truth, sometimes I look for proof

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto, and if it does

Does it matter if you blood or you cuz

Remember how it was, the picnics and the parties in the projects

Small time drinkin gettin high with them armies

Just another knucklehead kid from the gutter

I'm dealin with the madness, raised by a single mother

I'm tryin to tell you when it's on

You gotta keep your head to the sky and be strong, most of all hold on



Chorus



Interlude:



Hold on, be strong

I know them ain't tears comin down your face

When it's on it's on but

Wipe your eyes

Hold on, be strong

In this world

When it's on it's on but

Only the strong survive y'know

Hold on, be strong

Hmm, I know it's hard out there

When it's on it's on but

Welfare

Hold on, be strong

AIDS, earthquakes

Cause when it's on it's on but

Muggings, carjackings

Hold on, and be strong

Yeah we got problems

Cause when it's on it's on but

But believe me when I tell you

Hold on, and be strong

Things always get better

Cause when it's on it's on but

God don't like ugly

Hold on, and be strong

And God don't like no quitters

Cause when it's on it's on but

You know what Billie Holiday said bay-bee

Hold on, and be strong

God bless the child that can hold his own

Cause when it's on it's on but

Y'know?

Hold on, and be strong

You got to stand strong

Cause when it's on it's on but

And when these bustas try to knock you out your place

Hold on, and be strong

You stand there to they face

Cause when it's on it's on but

Tell em hold on, and be strong

Hold on, and be strong

The game don't stop

Cause when it's on it's on but

Hmmm

Hold on, and be strong

This here is black main

Cause when it's on it's on but

If you don't never leave nothin, learn one thing

Hold on, and be strong

It don't stop, til the casket drop

Hold on

Thug, for Life... feel me?

All my homeboys and my homegirls, stay strong

When things get bad, especially come the first and the fifteenth

Stay strong, and stay ballin, hold on

I'll catch y'all at the next life, we in traffic