Good Life (Original Version)

By 2Pac

Released on March 31, 1996

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[Intro: 2Pac]

La dolce vita

We trying live the good life (Haha)

Good life, baby


[Verse 1: 2Pac]

I was so money orientated, initiated as a thug

Fiendin' for wicked adventures, ambitious as I was

Picture a nigga on the verge of livin' insane

I sold my soul for a chance to kick it and bang

Now tell me if I'm wrong

But sayin' "fuck the world" got you deeper in my songs

Drinkin' 'til I hurl, spendin' money 'til it's gone

It's the good life, maybe niggas got it goin' on

Now maybe if I died and came back, wouldn't have to slang crack

Addicted to the game, so obviously we came strapped

Please forgive me for my wicked ways, fuck a bitch

Bad Boy niggas eat a dick a day, bumpin' this

Lord have mercy, it's a slaughter

So wicked that my tracks is wettin' niggas like it's water

I learned my lessons as a thug in these wicked ass hood fights

But I'm a baller now

Nigga, I live the good life


[Chorus: 2Pac]

This is the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust the hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die

See, we live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die


[Verse 2: Big Syke]

No one knows what the future holds for you

Hahaha, listen closely

They say: "Reach in yo' heart and you'll find your mind"

Every day in the streets, got my foresight blind

My after time is narrow, peepin' down the barrel of a foe

Just a nigga or a killer, I don't know so

Who makes the call will I fall a victim like the rest?

Slug in the chest, one in the dome and make sure I'm gone

Send me home all alone in these cold streets

In desperation constantly drinkin' and I can't sleep

Neck deep strugglin' tryin' to survive

Some wanna die I wanna stay alive

Eyes on the prize, let me modify this whole region

I declare this sucker duckin' season, give me the reason

Why I should change into a softie after livin' so loftily?

It cost me my soul out of control in a devil's world

Me, my niggas and my girl

Livin' the good life!

[Chorus: 2Pac & E.D.I. Mean]

We live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die

Uh ha, We live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die (Uh, yeah)


[Verse 3: E.D.I. Mean]

The sun rises as I slowly waited, soon that we take it

To beside to my kitchen my lady manners no mistaken

I'm in the safe, baby

The good life if you will a deep in fail from the street lights

'Cause here I get the sleep nights

Bad Boy's fade it and all uncentrated

But eliminated, dog, I do belive we made it

And all look is captivated

Surprise and a rob, deep and think wouldn't can't take it

We sayin' the paper had to chase it

Thugs from the bottom up, got them up

We all of you, ballers trought

The niggas do you thought was you

Why livin' as the soft? (Rema) C'mon

Realisticly, forever grown and can't even picture me

In a mix, that all stress and pain

The young nigga, the guy holdin' the game

Livin' the good life


[Chorus: 2Pac]

We live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die, uhh

We live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't, uhh

We live the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb niggas that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die, uhh

This is the good life, fuck my foes

God bless the dumb bitches that trust these hoes

Found a way to stack money guaranteed to rise

And live the good life, 'cause thug niggas don't die