Benzino - Look Into My Eyes Lyrics
[Intro]Look into my eyes and you will see: (My Struggle my pain)My life my pain and the things that made me (made me who i am)There's no other place that i would rather be (Benzino) i didn't choose this life, this life chose me...[Benzino Speaking]This one's for the world, my peopleU think u know me? U have no idea who i am, This is my storyIt's not about the magazine (no), about my baggy jeans (no) and my braidz (no) and my jewelery (ah ah), the money: nah, (non of that) i didn't choose this life, this life chose me[verse one]It wasn't long ago when it all beganstandin' in the graveyard while they buried my menit's when i first understood how this game was playedEither kill a nigga quick or u might get playedStreet was never was that big, the hood's even smallergrew up in the projects that moved the four quartersPop's went to prison, i knew about the systemevery sunday morning, me and mom's payed a visitHe was heavy in the streets maybe mafia connectedall i'm gonna say he was very well respectedThey called me raydog, yeah that's Titos sonI met a lot of great men for many years to comeI'm gettin' money on my block all nightRunnin' with a bunch of niggaz born to fight, Nigga!Boston was the first on the east to really bang outNiggaz wanted streets while them automatics rang out[chorus]Look into my eyes and you will see: (My life my pain)My life my pain and the things that made me (There's no other place)There's no other place that i would rather be (That's right) i didn't choose this life, this life chose me...[Verse two]Now f**king with these niggaz on the other side of townThe allmighty spalms, we the hottest click aroundJewelery was heavy niggas rolled thirty thickArtillery was heavy niggas, Jake standn' on my dickAnd i'm squeezin all types of guns, what evaMom's keeps cryin', but that's the life of thugsAnd that's the life i love, i'm addicted to itStreet life, real thug niggaz makin' rap musicI met Dave at the radio, he coolstarted the source mag, always had to be in schoolIt was one piece of paper then they grew in to a bookBut i had my own paper, cause my block was a lookI caught i couple of Benz, i'm fighting court casesIt was news at eleven, or in the news papersInvestigation federal, i knew it from the startI knew that jealousy and envy tore my crew apart[chorus]Look into my eyes and you will see: (My life my pain)My life my pain and the things that made me (There's no other place)There's no other place that i would rather be (That's right) i didn't choose this life, this life chose me...[Verse three]If money is the root of all evil then burn itOr get up off you ass mothaf**ka and earn itI moved to New York, It was time to make it happenDave is my dog and yeah zino's still rappin'I walk trough the valley of death with no fearI'm holding Dave down till the niggaz's outta here (beleve that)I breath fore my niggaz disease, holding inExhale all the anger that i'm holding withinTo many people in my life, never coming back (no)It's never where you from, it's only where standin' nowGot a few good niggaz, a box of amunition, that's all i really need for me to carry out a missionIf Eminem wanna squash beef tell him call me (where u at?)Meet him any where, he can bring his whole army (Bring em')The day will soon come when the world recognizeZino is the realist,since Pac been alivex2Look into my eyes and you will see: (My life my pain)My life my pain and the things that made me (There's no other place)There's no other place that i would rather be (I didn't chose this life) i didn't choose this life, this life chose me...(yeah yeah)[Benzino Speaking]Yeah Troy you did it on this one nigga, believe that, yeah the Arch nemesisIn the hood me and you, yeah believe that, this is my story