“Lately been reminiscing
Bout Peppermint Schnapps in Junior High hit the block
Keep an eye on the cops while D-Boys slang rocks
It’s the project kid without a conscience, I’m having dreams
Of hearing screams at my concerts, me all my childhood peers
Through the years trying to stack a little green
I was only seventeen, when I started serving fiends
And I wish there was another way to stack a dollar
So my apoli’, cause these hard times make me wanna holler
Will I live to see tomorrow, am I falling off?
I hit the weed and then proceed to say fuck all of y’all
Ain’t nobody down with me I’m thugging, I can’t go home
‘Cause muh-fuckers think I’m bugging, so now I’m in
This high powered cell at the county jail
Punk judge got a grudge, can’t post no bail, what
Do I do in these county blues
Getting battered and bruised by the you know who
And these fakes get to shaking when they face me
Snakes ain’t got enough nuts to replace me
Sitting in this, living hell, listening to niggas yell
Trying to torture em to tell, I’m getting mail
But ain’t nobody saying much, the same old nuts
Is making bucks while these sluts is getting fucked
They violated my probation, and it seems
I’ll be going on a long vacation, meanwhile
It ain’t easy
No it ain’t easy
It ain’t easy, being me
Will I see the penitentiary, or will I stay free
It ain’t easy, being me
Will I see the penitentiary, or will I stay free”
these are lyrics from Tupac’s song “It aint easy” and this song expresses Pac’s pain and perspective of the hood and how he struggles to stay free but not only physically but mentally because as a black man we are ” Damned if we do, Damned if we don’t “