2Pac and Natasha Walker - R U Still Down? [Original Version]

I never had a father figure
I was raised by the thugs
And the drug dealers
- That's why I love niggas!
Until they place me in my casket
Guess I'll be a hopeless bastard
Gettin' high in the back, plastered
Can't nobody make a way for
Me - times is hard
On a nigga, mama pray for me
I'm smokin' weed for the stress
And drinkin' for the pain
From the strain on the young brothers brain
Ain't a motherfucking thing to do
But hang and stay true thugs get lonely too
I'm drinking 22's of brew, till I'm tipsy
And I ain't going out throwing
Up my middle finger, miss me?
Tryna get my hands on the cash
How long will it last
Will it last a little longer if I blast?
And trust me
I'll probably be the last to preach
Cause ain't no hope for the
Future if they asking me
And what my poppa never told me -
You see I learned from the
Kindness of strangers and homies
So now I can't turn back
Time to make it through
They wanna ban me, while tryna feed my family
But all the homies in the hood
Told me: nigga it's all good
And muthafuck Hollywood!
For tryna shut a real nigga down
Stayin' true to the game
Fuck the fame, I still won't change
R U Still Down?

R U Still Down? (Tell Me - R U Still Down?)

Now up and at em it's on
I was raised to be strong
And mama told me be a thug
Since the day I was born
I came up out the gutter
Never changed my style
Got for real about my papers
Cause the game was wild
And the fame was a plot
To try to change me-ee
And what's strange is nobody knew
My name 'fore it came
Now the whole world is calling me a killer
And all I ever did - was try
To reach the kids with the real
All the time I was ballin'
Never heard my friends callin'
Couldn't stop myself from fallin', I'm all in
Shit's gettin' sleazy, believe me
Best to take what ya need
But don't be greedy
Cause in my mind I see sunshine, I thought
I didn't have to run
Now i'm duckin' from the
Gun yellin': one time-ee
Take your time to feel my record
And if you did
Chill a second, my blind method
Will still wreck it
My young homies stay strong
I wonder if they'll listen to
A nigga when he gone? R U Still Down?

I'm gettin' high
So a nigga think he touch the sky
Turn tough inside, in the rush to die
Livin' life as a thug time to face the truth
What's goin' on with the wasted youth?
Please God, come and save me
Had to work with what ya gave me
They got a nigga goin' crazy
I can't read the signs i'm blind
But a nigga know he need his nine
Cause times they ain't what they used to be
Ain't a penitentiary built
Big enough for me and my
Niggas on the streets
Man listen! cause these ain't the old days
Ain't no way I'mma bustin my
Ass and gettin no pay
It seems I can't find my focus
And homey I ain't paranoid
I seen the future and it's hopeless
Lord knows, it's hard on a young scrub
It seems I had less problems
When I slung drugs but since I'm lacin young
Brothers with the game
Wanna see me locked in chains and
Tryin' to dirty up my name
And them same motherfuckers that
Was callin' me will be the first to turn
Their backs, when I'm fallin', see?
I should have seen it from the jump
But now it's clear
One nigga got the town in fear
R U Still Down?

All I want to know - R U Still Down?
Tell Me - R U Still Down?

Tell Me - R U Still Down? R U Still Down?

Written by:
CURTIS MAYFIELD, TONY PIZARRO, TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR

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Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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