Intro:
(The Genius)
(I live the thugs life)
Uptown(thugs life)Downtown(turn on your lighters) (thug-thugs life)
All around, Gully and the trenches (Worldwide)
Real gangstas know how it takes to be a thug
I dont know bout you, but mi nuh ?? mi a thug
You blind
If you dont know a thug when you see a thug
Gangsta
(I live the thugs knife)

Verse 1:
Put up yuh hand dem like a knife(knife)
Dem fi know we a nuh easy push over
Dem unno want we step inna crime(crime)
We dollar case drop cross we shoulder(thu-thugs life)
Innocent life(life)
Nuh real thugs nah tek fi fame
Some bwoy fi know, dem nuh fi call up badman name
And if dem, waan start now, we nah back from no war
Cause only know is thug life(I live the thugs life)


Chorus:
They wanna know what thug is
Well against they dont know wi
They wanna see what thug is
Just try overthrow wi

Verse 2:
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Riverton, Seaview, gimme dem a sneak preview
Nuh give wi nuh quiz
Nuh who a real thug is
Bad from wi a likkle boy dem inna Huggies
Before di days of King Jammys and Tubbies
Know what a Sluggy is so we sip any ??

She come from no informer cyan terry dem
Bare tall up tall up gangsta carry dem
From yuh diss yuh d***, badman nuh tek sorry deh
Run, if you eva plan fi diss and tell wi sorry
Fool

Chorus:
They wanna know what thug is
Well against they dont know wi
They wanna see what thug is
Just try overthrow wi

Verse 3:
We a real thugs fi life and, dat is foreva
Fakers wanna be thugs but they will neva
Yuh nah go see a thug and a bug a par together
Real thug hustle hard everyday fi mek di chedda
Real thugs from di day we enter this earth
so I'm a thug by relation we a thug by birth
Mi madda is a thuggies and mi fadda rather work
Cah bout you a thug you haffi confront wi first, fool

Chorus:
They wanna know what thug is
Well against they dont know wi
They wanna see what thug is
Just try overthrown wi