It Ain't Easy Songtext
von Willie D

Walking down the street is no longer something you do without thinking
Going down to the store becomes an adventure

Struggling, hustling, just trying to earn a decent living (ooh, yeah, yeah)

It ain′t easy (we got to love somebody)
Michelle (everybody need somebody)
Willie D (we got to love somebody now)
If you don't feel me, kill me

Slangin′ crack and drinkin' 40s on the corner, what's the life?
Many disagreements ended up in gunfights
Night-night with the soldier who was last to draw
You got your ass whooped if you had a plastic jaw
A bastard boy growing up in the projects
Where you can buy sex, and ain′t no telling who gon′ die next
We wear our phones up consistently
I didn't make this 45 while you pissed at me


No mystery why my homie dead and gone (it ain′t easy)
He used to beat his girlfriend all night long
You know the story, she squeezed the trigger
Put the whole clip in him and freeze my nigga
Now, everybody in the hood paid last respects
And when the solo was sung, each face was wet

I recollect me and my nigga chasing hoes and shit (ooh, yeah)
At the wake, tears dripping on my clothes and shit
Stand blank, get my dawg inside the casket
Interrupted by his little girl laughing (yeah)
She's too young to understand, so she don′t know
My nigga mama going crazy on the front row

'Cause it ain′t easy (we got to love somebody)
When you gotta bury a child (everybody need somebody)
It wasn't too long ago (we got to love somebody now)
It used to be the other way around (oh, oh)
Wonder what the world is coming to
(We got to love somebody, everybody need somebody)
These caskets getting shorter and shorter (we got to love somebody now)
Gotta make a change (oh, oh)


Now y'all was planning a wedding, but your man got popped
And it′s the third time that he down on lock, your phone ain′t blocked
But you losing patience, agonizing over the fucking years that he facing
Look at his so-called boys, jigging at you as the time passes
Trying to get some pussy with they're trifling asses
You weak, but you play strong

In the middle of the night, it ain′t easy being home alone
You feel betrayed, so you fall for what some sucker said
Open your legs and give the pussy to a knucklehead
Before y'all got y′all nut, this shit was on the streets
Pay attention to what I mention 'cause this shit get deep
Your fiancé got the word from his cell block
And went crazy like a nigga that was shell shocked
He hung himself ′cause he couldn't take it
They tried to save him, but he didn't make it
Buried him butt naked (mm-mm)

You cry tears, but your years were slick
Can′t teach that old dog new tricks for shit (everybody′s crying)
Didn't understand why he couldn′t stay free
When they let you out that cage back into society

It ain't easy (we got to love somebody)
Prison, joke (everybody need somebody)
The whole system is designed
To dehumanize you and steal your manhood (we got to love somebody now)
Didi, welcome home, baby (oh. oh)

Will I die young?
These niggas are doing dirty where I come from
You be lucky to see 30 from petty disputes
Niggas shoot from the drug dealing
Liquor stores and mortuaries are making the killing
Our children sleeping on the floor
′Cause ain't no telling when the gun blast pushing through the window
And politicians don′t seem to mind
They give a fuck about us until it's voting time
Not 'cause I′m black

White women be thinking the worst
Bitch, I don′t want your motherfuckin' purse
It′s like I'm cursed when I walk up the streets
Gettin′ dirty looks from these niggas in the motherfuckin' police
Mothers are prayin′, fathers are playin' old songs
Reminiscin' of the days when the family was strong
I felt guilty when my baby girl came in the world
Tryin′ to make it in this motherfuckin′ wicked world ain't easy

(We got to love somebody)
Yeah, for sure (everybody need somebody)
It ain′t easy, but you can make it (we got to love somebody now)
You just gotta keep your head up, keep marching forward
(Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh)

(We got to love somebody)
Keep the haters behind you at all times (everybody need somebody)
Got to say what's up to my nigga Precise (we got to love somebody now)
(Whoa, oh, oh, oh, oh)
That nigga off the motherfuckin′ hook, he lays the track
(We got to love somebody)
(Everybody need somebody)
Willie D, Willie D (we got to love somebody now)

Y'all niggas gon′ feel me
As if you niggas didn't already feel me
11 years and still standing
Rap a lot of records
Loved by a few, hated by many