Released on February 13, 1996

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[Intro: 2Pac]

A military mind, nigga (Yeah, the homies just sittin' around)

A military mind mean money (You knahmean? Talkin' that shit)

A criminal grind, nigga

A criminal grind mean hustle

You know


[Chorus: 2Pac]

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes


[Verse 1: 2Pac]

Now can your mind picture, a thug nigga drinkin' hard liquor

This ghetto life has got me catchin' up to God quicker

Who would figure that all I need was a hair trigger

Semi-automatic MAC-11 just to scare niggas

Pardon my thug poetry, but suckers is born everyday

And fear of man grow on trees

Criminal ties for centuries, a legend in my own rhymes

So niggas whisper when they mention

Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines, my father figure

Mama sent me to go play with the drug dealers

Henceforth, we thug niggas and we came in packs

Every one of my niggas strapped sippin' on 'Gnac

In the back, my AR-15

Thuggin' 'til I die, these streets got me cravin' thorazine

My lyrics are blueprints to money makin'

Fat as that ass that honey shakin'


[Chorus: 2Pac & Kastro]

My niggas tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories


[Verse 2: Kastro]

I bust a trey-trey, buggin an' shit

They call it overthuggin' and shit

But I was just a younger nigga, gettin' older and lovin' this shit

But what was I doin' in this place?

To the fakes without a pistol in the first

Facin' termination in the worst

But I figured to play the wall; to watch all

These playa hatin' niggas position for I could see 'em all

Made it up out of there, lucky to be here to tell you

But it'll never be a repeat, people, I'm tryna tell you


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

Now picture the scenery, I'm thugged out smokin' greenery

Considered a BG, but I'm off in this game something deeply

My eyes only see G's, that's why I'm young and burnt out

Learned the know how, well how to do now, by 18 turned out

And wide open, to ridin' and smokin'

Collide with foes in the worst place

Y'all shouldn'ta fucked with us, in the first place

Y'all real OGs, droppin' game to the youngsters

Y'all don't want no funk 'cause

Y'all be the next in the long line of war stories


[Chorus: 2Pac & C-Bo]

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes


[Verse 4: C-Bo]

I breaks them off with this gangster war story tale

Stacking loot up in the coupe that I protect with a Mack 12

When I slap my clip in the chamber; fool, your life's in danger

No one will remain when I come through dumping insane

Call me Bo Loc Major Pain, gun-slang and moving 'caine

I be the nigga that pulling a trigger and dumping the hot ones up in your brain

More bigger balls than RuPaul, Thug Life fade 'em all

We bucks that ass up against the wall, up against a son of a man call

We bucks them down on the way to the ground, ain't nothin' but the hog in me

Plus, stompin' steel toed, killin' up ho's and keep mobbin' G

It ain't no calling the funk off, now dumping out bucks with a sawed off

Blast they dirty-ass drawers off and have them bitch niggas hauled off

[Chorus: 2Pac & Napoleon]

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, we Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories


[Verse 5: Napoleon]

My whole family been raised on shit that ain't okay

Ain't nothin' on this Earth will make a nigga like me stay

I'm reminiscin', and catchin' flashbacks when niggas ran up in my house and I was too young to try to blast back

What happened then? No one would tell me since I was three

Heard that God took my peoples, now they livin' somewhere free

But fuck that, you got what's mines and I want that

Never drop my guard, been on the squad since ways back

And now I'm sittin', holdin' in anger because my parents missin'

Thuggin' immortal, went got some war stories for you


[Verse 6: Storm]

Now look at me, straight Outlaw Immortal

Never gave a fuck 'cause I was nobody's daughter

Outlawing from my tits to my clits, don't try to figure

'Cause the murderous tendencies in my mind can't be controlled, nigga

So who's the bigger, who's the quickest killer?

Would you try to trip with my finger on the 9 milla

When I got you on canine fours

Prayin' to God as your life goes back and forth

We tradin' war stories


[Chorus: 2Pac]

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes

We tradin' war stories, Outlawz on the rise

Jealous niggas I despise, look in my eyes


[Outro: 2Pac]

War stories nigga; hahaha, what players do

Thug Life, Outlaw Immortalz

Motherfucking 2Pac a.k.a. Makaveli

Can you feel me?

Just so you know, it's on Death Row

My niggas love that shit

Dramacydal in this motherfucker, heheheh

Yea nigga! Shout out to my niggas Fatal N Felony

C-Bo, the bald head nut, what?

You know what time it is