Everyday Struggle (2005 Remaster) The Notorious B.I.G.

[00:20.15] I don't wanna live no more [00:21.64] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [00:24.25] I'm living everyday like a hustle [00:26.07] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [00:29.47] I don't wanna live no more [00:32.14] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [00:34.17] I'm living everyday like a hustle [00:36.38] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [00:39.48] I know how it feels to wake up fucked up [00:42.33] Pockets broke as hell, another rock to sell [00:45.23] People look at you like you're the user [00:48.18] Selling drugs to all the losers mad Buddha abuser [00:50.06] But they don't know about the stress-filled day [00:52.82] Baby on the way, mad bills to pay [00:54.67] That's why you drink Tanqueray [00:56.02] So you can reminisce and wish [00:58.06] You wasn't living so devilish s-shit [01:00.30] I remember I was just like you [01:02.37] Smoking blunts with my crew [01:04.13] Flipping oldies '62s [01:04.96] 'Cause G-E-D was it B-I-G, I got P-A-I-D [01:08.76] That's why my moms hates me [01:10.31] She was forced to kick me out, no doubt [01:12.59] Then I figured out Nick's went for 20 down south [01:15.13] Packed up my tools for my raw power move [01:17.12] Glock 19 for casket and flower moves [01:19.47] Four drunks trying to stop my flow [01:23.12] And what they don't know will show on the autopsy [01:24.93] Went to see papi, to cop me a brick [01:27.64] Asked for some consignment and he wasn't trying to hear it [01:30.33] Smoking mad Newports 'cause I'm doing court for an assault [01:33.09] That I caught in Bridge Port, New York [01:34.99] Catch me if you can like the ginger bread man [01:37.09] You better have your gat in hand [01:39.26] 'Cause man [01:40.06] I don't wanna live no more [01:41.63] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [01:44.04] I'm living everyday like a hustle [01:45.94] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [01:49.62] I don't wanna live no more [01:51.47] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [01:53.98] I'm living everyday like a hustle [01:55.70] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [01:58.84] I had the master plan [02:00.40] I'm in the caravan on my way to Maryland [02:02.67] With my man Tutex to take over these projects [02:05.06] They call him Tutex, he tote two TEC's [02:07.47] And when he starts to bust [02:09.27] He likes to ask who's next? [02:10.44] I got my honies on the Amtrack [02:11.50] With the crack in the crack of her ass [02:13.63] Two pounds of hash in the stash [02:15.30] I wait for hun to make some quick cash [02:17.13] I told her she could be lieutenant, bitch got gassed [02:19.53] At last I'm literally lounging Black [02:21.84] Seating back counting double digit thousands stacks [02:24.24] Had to re-up see what's up with my peeps [02:26.81] Toyota dealer cars had it cheap on the jeeps [02:29.56] See who got smoked, what rumors was spread [02:31.99] Last I heard I was dead with six to the head [02:34.56] Then I got the phone call [02:36.00] It couldn't hit me harder [02:37.27] We got infiltrated [02:38.55] Like Nino at the Carter [02:39.69] I heard Tec got murdered in a town I've never heard of [02:42.14] By some bitch named Alberta over nickel-plated burners [02:44.42] And my bitch swear to God she won't snitch [02:47.32] I told her where she hit the bricks, I'll make the hooker rich [02:49.48] Conspiracy should be home in three [02:51.67] Until them I look south for the home family [02:54.44] A true G, that's me blowing like a bubble [02:56.96] In the everyday struggle [02:59.15] I don't wanna live no more [03:01.44] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [03:03.60] I'm living everyday like a hustle [03:06.06] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [03:09.41] I don't wanna live no more [03:11.18] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [03:13.54] I'm living everyday like a hustle [03:15.49] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [03:19.31] I'm seeing body after body and our mayor Giuliani [03:21.74] Ain't trying to see no black man turn into John Gotti [03:24.42] My daughter use a potty so she's older now [03:26.81] Educated street knowledge I'ma mold her now [03:29.46] Trick 'er little dope buying young girls tringes [03:31.66] Dealing with the dope fiend binges [03:33.75] Seeing syringes in the veins [03:35.81] Hard to explain how I maintain [03:37.57] The crack smoke makes my brain feel so strange [03:39.62] Breaking days on the set no sweat from cold moet [03:42.49] Can't bag yet because it's still wet [03:43.83] But when I dry back in five at a time [03:46.62] I can clock about nine on the check cashing line [03:49.47] I had to burst on the third [03:51.79] Rehearse that's my word [03:52.90] Thinking the game Ds knew my first name [03:54.71] Should I quit? Shit no! [03:56.42] Even though they had me scared [03:58.12] Yo they gotta eight I gotta tec with air holes [03:59.20] That's just how the shit goes in the struggle mother fucker [04:02.89] [04:09.69] I don't wanna live no more [04:11.26] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [04:13.76] I'm living everyday like a hustle [04:15.84] Another drug to juggle, another day another struggle [04:19.41] I don't wanna live no more [04:21.07] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [04:24.02] I'm living everyday like a hustle [04:25.42] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [04:29.45] I don't wanna live no more [04:31.14] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [04:33.61] I'm living everyday like a hustle [04:35.46] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [04:39.38] I don't wanna live no more [04:41.03] Sometimes I hear death knocking at my front door [04:43.56] I'm living everyday like a hustle [04:45.46] Another drug to juggle, another day, another struggle [04:51.39] Junior Mafia [04:52.76]