What You Gonna Do

[Big Shug] Big Shug, one life to live Make good choices you feel me, yeah [Hook] "Whatcha gonna do with your life... Whatcha gonna do with your life, my friend my friend" [Big Shug] Young man grows up without his pops around Find ways around his mother, and how to sneak around He got basketball skills, no doubt He live in the ghetto, figures this'll get him out Yeah, momma's drunk and shiz uncle on skid riz Stuck in front of TV, watchin MTV's Cribs Forget school, focus is not there He'd rather hang out, in Murderpan Square It's where the cats is ballin, females is callin Shootin hot shots, everybody sprawled out No doubt, it's gangster to the core He don't know nothin about, pushin raw You ask him 'bout homework, he already did it Who the fuck he kiddin, we been there before All of us done seen it, all of us done been there Ain't no way you got wins in the square, the square... [Hook] - 2X [Big Shug] Pretty girl, pretty long hair Fly young lady niggas know her everywhere Raised by her moms, in the projects With true street code, discipline and respect Mom didn't work she collected them checks Didn't know her little girl, was headin for a wreck Cats started givin her dough, for her pretty face She realized her looks, could get her just any place Started smokin crack, it's the new thing Started sellin her necklaces and gold rings After the smokin, and late par-ties She had nothin left to give but her bo-dy She soon became, a prostitute Caught AIDS lived her last days on the stoop With bags, and no place to go How could a girl like that, sink so low, so low... [Hook] - 2X [Big Shug] Young girl, pregnant as hell Ready to pick a fight as soon as she hear the bell, f'real Still drinkin, still smokin on crack Every night different niggas runnin up her back And she not realizin there's a kid inside A life inside, a future inside She's still selfish, lil' ol' bitch She wanna go crazy when she can't get her wish She got a sugar daddy to grant her wish He gave her plenty money just to eat her fish She pretty, young 22 years old Tight fightin skirts no maternity clothes And if you say she won't be a good mom She'll break out with the razor to do you harm She hope the baby looks like her, great Soon after the birth he's a ward of the state, f'real, f'real... [Hook] - 2X [Big Shug] What you gonna do, with your life What you gonna do my friend, heyyy Make good choices, Big Shug, Maus, one