My Life (Cradle 2 The Grave) - Foxy Brown, Althea

From the cradle until now, still Fox, just a little more mature

Seen it with my bare eyes, did it all before, been through hell on earth

Playing out my role I was given since birth, recepting it well

Go hard at them critics, they expect me to fail, work hard for my fans

They expect me to sell, they suspect I’m living well

But they don’t know the pain I feel, five minutes away from getting killed

It’s ill, my moms' always hug me when I’m leaving

I wake up crying because death bugs me when I’m sleeping

Jam Master died, it’s like I ain’t done grieving

Big and Pac gone, and look, we still beefing

And son, even, we at odds in these days

Where niggers' die over cars and their chains

I thank God that I’m saved and I’m a hold it down in this game

Now, from the cradle to the grave

From the cradle to the grave, I wish I knew my life

Would end up being this way, from the cradle to the grave

I wish I knew my life would end up being this way

From the cradle until now, I been through it all, y’all

Y’all don’t know half the things, I been through it, dog

Pain and suffering, I been through it all, my heart’s still cold

I been through the storm, confused all these years

Shit, we grew all these years, I remember me and you on the stairs

Talking about what we’re going to do when we’re big

Money came into play and best friends went they way, shit

I wish it never had to go that way

The price of fame can cost a whole friendship

Yeah we got dollars, but it’s senseless

So I pray to God for forgiveness, and ask him to carry me through

All the stress, and the drama in this business, I bare witness

I Fox, and keep going strong until my heart stop

And keep flowing strong with a -, come on

From the cradle to the grave, I wish I knew my life

Would end up being this way, from the cradle to the grave

I wish I knew my life would end up being this way

As a little girl, I wish I knew that I would be going through the drama That’s

in my life, all the suffering, everywhere I’ve been

How I get myself in all this bullshit I’m in

From now until the grave, I look back at my life, smile, and say 'wow'

In amazement, all these roadblocks, wonder how did I make it

Wonder how I became famous, I’m impressed with me

It’s like rumours been obsessed with me, but the truth’s never told

It was left with me, and what’s left for me is to extend my hand

If they don’t reach then I’ll let them be, I’ve got to live my life right

But I wouldn’t change how I lived my like

If I could live my life twice, y’all don’t understand what Inga’s life’s like

A black stressed, I turned my back to the world, and now I’m back to the world

This black girl’s blessed, yeah, my fans helped me through it

I was destined to blaze from the cradle to the grave

Thank God my family helped me through it

From the cradle to the grave, I wish I knew my life

Would end up being this way, from the cradle to the grave

I wish I knew my life would end up being this way