Rhyme Pays
Pain
Ice-T
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[Chorus]
Pain
Pain
Pain
Pain
[Verse 2]
Organized crimer✦
Big trouble finder✦
In and out of institutions
Ever✦ since I was a minor✦
But now I'm on the bricks
Deep in the mix
Crime-smart, searching hard
For some new street tricks
I think I'll join a gang
Sling a little cane
Put a beeper✦ on my belt
And get myself a name
Fresh sneakers, silk shirts
24/7 work
Nine-to-five✦ to survive?✦
You gotta✦ be a jerk!
I clock two grand a day
Yes I was born to play
Who me? At Micky✦ D's?
It wouldn't work, no way
I'm a big money✦ haver✦
But not the last laugher
For me infamy✦
Makes✦ me no autographer
Custody haunts my dreams
Nightmares of capture
Paranoid of surveillance
Phobia✦ of cameras
My bank's bigger✦
But so are my fears
Past records prove players
Live limited years
But I'm unlike✦ the rest
Known to be the best
Fast money,✦ true wealth
My eternal quest
I hustle all night long
There ain't no gain in rest
12 gauge close range
Blood's on my chest
I looked✦ into✦ his face
I thought he was my friend!
My boy had me set up!
This wound would never✦ mend
No matter✦ who you trust
You simply✦ cannot✦ win
It's always✦ fun in the beginning✦
But it's pain in the end
[Chorus]
Pain
Pain
Pain
Pain
[Verse 3]
Gold rope wearer✦
Neighborhood terror✦
Can't hang around✦ my mother✦
Cause she says I scare her
Got a light sunburn
From too much pool-side sittin'✦
Cordless phone keeps me on
Cause there ain't no quittin'
Mind's in a money✦ mode
Seems like it should explode
Girlies on my jammie--
Got a female✦ overload
Young street messiah
Professional liar
19, got a Benz
21, I'll retire✦
Crazy✦ money✦ it ain't funny✦
Suckers lovin'✦ my jock
But there's✦ some people at my door
That didn't even✦ knock!
Task force boomin'✦
Doggin'✦ my crib out
Can't shout!
F.B.I.'s got a gun in my mouth
Threw me on the floor
Called✦ my girl a whore
Pulled✦ ten G's out my mattress
And was lookin'✦ for more
Cracked my safe with an axe
Then they laughed to the max!
When they seem my money✦ kickin'✦ it
In twenty-G stacks
Booked✦ me on ten counts
With bails of different amounts
The charges stuck like glue--
Some that I couldn't pronounce!
They threw my ass the book
My life was surely✦ took
Then they gave my girl ten years
For hangin'✦ out with a crook
She played the game herself
Fast lane quick wealth
No respect for the law
Or the city's✦ health
The sweat of hustler's greed
Is not reserved for men
It's always✦ fun in the beginning✦
But it's pain in the end
[Chorus]
Pain
Pain
Pain
Pain
Pain
[Outro]
Yeah, that ain't nothin'!✦
Cause when I get outta✦ here, I'mma✦ get right back in the money✦
Cause they don't know that I know what time it is, ya see
I done learned something. I did half my time, but I can learn more when I was in here
And I'mma✦ go right back out and get paid, you understand what I'm sayin'? Cause I did half my time. Word!
I only✦ got nine years left
PAIN!
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