Hilary Erhard Duff (born September 28, 1987) is an American actress, author, entrepreneur and recording artist. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Duff appeared in local theatre plays and television commercials before coming to prominence in the title role of the Disney Channel's teen comedy Lizzie McGuire and The CW's teen drama Gossip Girl as movie star Olivia. Established as a teen idol, Duff reprised that role in the The Lizzie McGuire Movie and subsequently ventured into motion pictures, appearing in a string of successful films that include Agent Cody Banks, Cheaper by the Dozen, A Cinderella Story and Cheaper by the Dozen 2. Most recently, she has performed in a legion of television dramas and independent films.
Duff expanded her repertoire to include pop music and has released three RIAA-certified platinum albums including Metamorphosis (2002), her debut studio album which was certified triple platinum, Hilary Duff (2004) and Most Wanted (2005), which were both certified platinum. Her most recent studio album Dignity (2007) was certified gold and spawned her highest charting US single to date "With Love". Followed by Best of Hilary Duff (2008), a compilation of her greatest hits, Duff has since sold thirteen million albums worldwide.
It has been raining
for so long
I have been praying
for a break in the storm
but in the thunder
I hear your name
and it takes me under
underneath all this pain
and I've got to get on with my life
but I don't know how
tell me...
[chorus]
how many rivers to cross
how many crosses to bear
how many miles till I get there
without you
I have been waiting
for so long
now this woman is saying
she can't wait anymore
no sound of thunder
no threat of rain
can keep me under
underneath all this pain
and I've got to get on with my life
but I don't know how
please tell me
repeat chorus
how many rivers to cross
how many crosses to bear
how many miles till I get there
If all the guys you ever knew were standing here in front of you
I wonder just how many there would be
If everyone you ever kissed was put on paper in a list
I wonder just how many there would be
You must have kissed a million for everywhere we go
You seem so well acquainted the way they smile and say hello
If I could count their broken hearts like I would have if we should part
I wonder just how many there would be
[ steel ]
* [C-Bo]
My whole crew balling
Pushing roses down to the impalas
On a mission for dollars bumping hoes
You know my motto
All about the cash 6 million dollar pad
That’s money over hoes with big tits and ass
I like to lounge on my yacht
And count money by the blocks
Million dollars in crates
Invested birdes don’t flock
So fuck some m*et dp and cristal
Pass some xo and hennessey and long ale
We push some rolls royces
Drop polices and porches you think I booshit
Big body benz’s and expiditions
Pit boo sitting
Out front of the mini mansion
It’s some westcoast hills looking over the whole planet
Coube doors marble floors
Inside our door pools on a move
Get more money than all you fools
Than independent then split it
Got in the cast and I jet
Straight out west nigga it’s stacking in my nest
[Chorus]
How many muthafuckas really down to ride with me
How many muthafuckas down to take a life for me
How many of you muthafuckas niggas down to die with me
Slide with me and pull a homicide with me
[C-Bo]
Growing up really never had much
Except my folks try to fucking get touch
We pulled licks and such to live plush
Rush out with it yea we get it rob niggas mob niggas
Slide triggers to the right and left
Ride biggas in the west to def
Represent the westcoast nigga best to bring along a vest coat
The most dangerous like venim
We run up in them and see them them’em and send them off
To pay the cuz they what
While we stashing the turkys like sasquash
Call the neighborhood watch
The feds couldn’t knock us down or not
Pouring shots like scotch on the rocks
Busting armies like ahead looking cotch
40 cals gone blaow with smile
How the fuck you like us now
Wonder how we major
Been this way since teenagers
Sky pagers and punchy you know the rollers
Sack of crackola in boulders sitting in the trunk of the nova
[Chorus]
How many muthafuckas really down to ride with me
How many muthafuckas down to take a life for me
How many of you muthafuckas niggas down to die with me
Slide with me and pull a homicide with me
[C-Bo]
I counted the counter like one two three
Fo shots to hit me could believe lil reeky got touched
Now what’s the fuss
The whole city went bust ready to rip shit up
I’m in the cut zipping shackles while hillas getting nasty
I’m the suspect what the fuck is that
Loading the techs that I stepped on
See the muthafuckas the crept on
The dogs fly higher than the birds man smoking marycaine
Cuz it’s cool to calm my nerves man
We got the word on the ride now bitches be
No one’s liable for the actions that about to take place
All I know is when they comes for me I’m aiming for the face
Chase me down
Trying to speak you fucked with the wrong G
Crept to the b side on you quick to ride on ya
Hit them on the bad side with sliffs side on ya
Gurrileas gurrileas but pleas words to the miss
We got some shit going on one man down
How many times have you watched the sun rise
How many times have you looked deep into your lovers eyes
how many times have we spit phat rhymes
how many times
how many times
how many rhymes would it take
just for you to relate
and understand that we're livin in a police state
how many a pretty penny I would guess
non the less
? he's got us all desensitized under stress
how many tales of whore shore to shore
before the last days is here that for shore
how many days before we get more mature
and brothers with babies take care of there ladies
how many mics get crushed blown to dust
before we discover the true power within us
how many times can we rhyme about the same thing
before we realize stand up we got to change things
how many times have you seen the sun set
how many times has your ass been in debt
how many times have you bumped our cassete?
how many times
how many times
how many times do the seasons turn for babaloyn
burn this is my own concern to carry on
traditional listen yo
how many brothers tears have shed
by my people for over four hundred years
how many times have you lied cheated acted conceited
didn't needed you want it
how many times runnin
how many scars and cuts
bruises from the battle from those who got beef
how many ever seen cattle
killed in cold blood
so you can eat it up0
how much more till somebody says that's enough
how many times have you watched a full moon?
how many times have you cried alone in your room
how many times have you felt the bass boom?
how many times
how many times
how many more of the hardcore rappers and gun clappers
gotta die before we realize? zion i?
how many change in shadows
how much came in tobacco
how many bottles of 40 oz
death can we tackle
how many at the chapel
how many will be saved with fires rage
surface of earth is getting blazed
how many cause everyones got? an opinion?
this is shit to zion crew expresses um
how many times has a baby been born
how many times has lightening stuck in a storm
how many times has your work been bought
how many times
how many times
yo how many times
*scratching*
how many live in the projects
how many have sex
before they fell in love
how many people forget
where they came from
i seen some people that lost
how many brothers get accused and hung on the cross
how many children get neglected
how many get raised
in the land of the empty
the home of the slaves
how many times can we rhyme about the same thing
before we realize stand up we got to change things
how many times has the sky dropped rain
how many times has your heart felt pain
how many times mastered again and again
how many times
how many times
how many times have you seen the sun rise
how many times you looked into your lovers eyes
how many times have we spit phat rhymes
how many times
how many times
how many times have you seen the sun set
how many times has your ass been in debt
how many times have you bumped our cassette?
how many times *fades out*
how many times
how many times have you watched a full moon?
Huh, Ride ride, ride ride, ride, gangstas
We ride, fuck these niggas Daz, fuck 'em
Bust a bitch nigga
Please believe that
[Daz]
Motherfuckers wanna come through my block, shoot up and serve they rocks
Uh uh, here we come nigga to shut down your block
Recognize when the nine go pop, that's when they homeboys drop
With a plastic glock made his body lay cold, 12 shots
Nigga tell me what it is, y'all done lost it and forgot
Did I run this motherfucker from the bottom to top
We blast and dash with cops because we just don't give a fuck
When you see me nigga, better hide and duck
With double sight in broad daylight, better stay tight, better pray right
Watch after midnight, nigga better try to get right
Cuz we on a mission all out hunt, smoking hunts
Dip with the potion, motherfuckers acting ferocious
It's like a force I can't control it, you see it in mine
That's when you get burn and you learn, stop fucking with mine (buck, buck, buck)
We intervene and puff green, loaded and high
Cuz tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, some niggas gone die
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
Not you, not you, not you
[Kurupt]
We never gave a fuck, so what the fuck we gone start?
Snatching arms off, bust and puncture your heart
Don't trip homie, I ain't get 'em yet
I'm a penal system vet, off of cigarettes
A mushroom high, get 'em back now sherm right out the bucket, fuck it
Pull it out and pass it around and boom boom up and down
Never knew such a thing could happen,
Fucking pistol whipping you and g nigga go head up wit me, let's start scrapping
I'm tiny as fuck, never bow down to nann nigga
Beware nigga, all gangstas over here nigga
I'm tired of these ho's, I'm a let you niggas know
The ho you love nigga gotta hell-a-fide blow
Listen Bitch, all you'll ever be is a bitch
All you'll ever be to me is a bitch
Can't help it but I keep my mind right nigga
The poltergeist nigga
Once or twice, twice as nice pulling a heist nigga
Never gave a fuck and I don't ever think I will
I'm quick to pull out the glock and pop like pills
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers down to die tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
[Daz]
I wake up early in the morning with the urge to catch you slippin'
If your bloodin' and crippin' nigga your done for and finished
Been in it since the beginning, peeling niggas caps back
On the for realla my nigga cuz it's like that
Girl it ain't but play to bone, we make a living jacking niggas
16, 15, and 7 figga niggas (all y'all bitches)
Beware, 101, Get your gun
And prepare, to get done, blast and run
[Kurupt]
That's right, that's right, pull it out let the bullets fly
Pull it back and fly high,
And fuck the rest, aim and life and live,
Till everything in this motherfucker get hit and burned to a crisp
You heard it right, murder, tonight, today
See everyone in every way
Calypso, unloading a clip though on you ho's
Blazin' up the crip though pictures get painted like Vangoh, I wanna know
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers down to die tonight
Chorus
How many gonna raise they seed
How many gonna blow that weed
How many gonna slang that dope
When we know it's hope we really need
How many gonna make 'em bleed
How many gonna make 'em freeze
How many gonna push that weight
Do anything it take to get that cheese
See 'em everyday get hit with a charge
Now they gotta go toe to toe on the yard
Know it's kinda hard behind them bars
20 to life and you full of the strife
'Cuz you know you gotta fight for life
'Cuz if you life by the gun, die by the gun
Came from the slums where it ain't no fun
Somebody killed her only son
Who's gonna take his place, no one
Really don't matter 'bout the color or race
When the bullets start to fly all thru the place
Shorty got shot with a chrome 45
Hurt me to my heart, can't tell no lie
How many mommas out here gotta cry
How many kids out here gotta die
Lost in the streets got tears in their eyes
Tell 'em make the peace, can you feel me, right
uh-hua, okay, no how no way
Talk about politicians, that's why nobody wanna listen
Everybody from the money maker to the player hater
Wanna be a peace maker, if it ain't about makin' the peace
Or savin' the streets, Baby boy see ya later
But now it's me and Marquise bringin' peace to the streets
D.C.P. and Young Wiz-e, makin' the peace
Cause the violence to ceace' cuz that's the way that it's gotta
You heard, Makin' the peace cause the violence to cease
'Cuz that's the way that it's gotta be
45 Clint Eastwood, pop killas in the hood
Dirty boy flow, got folks in the wood
Know where I'm from, cats spit straight fire
Come on the block to make sure you die
Violation Wodie, comin' up in the scene
Magizine clip dogg, straight trippin' the frame
They wanna blame but the enemy make you ready for woe
MaryJane, hennissey got you blowin your dough
Frustrated, when we come thru they hate it
Spittin' the truth from the bottom to the Decatur
Shoot 'em up when they tellin' ya, hua
Another life gone 'cuz you messin' with her
Got 4 pumps in the back of the truck
Step out of line playas ready to bust
Chorus
Young thugs on the come up, now a days talk about throw your
guns up
Switch up, that's why they get done up
Blaze up, check it out when they run up
On somebody never met before, got a hit in your waste
Pull out, shot, hit the floor, doin' 25 to life in the cell
No bale, check it out homeboy, ain't that fo-sho
Got a 9 on the streets, bust on your peeps
Rollin' in the hood, so you gotta creep
Life ain't sweet, Know you incompleate
But you swift on your feet to get the cream
Y'all know what I mean, in this world of sin
Got a block full of fiends, everyday livin'
So you ready for the big ol' screen, Y'all
Chorus
I'm lost in the world not knowin' where I'm goin'
So everyday I pray just to make it thru the morning
When it's hard to stay focused when your dreams are hopeless
My ambissions are broken, only when I'm smokin'
Define lifes anwsers, what would the question be
Will I reach my destiny or will it get the best of me
Or will it get the best of me
No friend you can turn to, no where you can run to
In the end you can't pretend 'cuz it's all on you
In the fight to keep my head, I cried till I bled
And did the right thing that was written in red
All these thugs bustin' slugs yo we can't ignore
And there be blood on the floor from the night before
Livin' life full speed, fallin' victem to greed
Fast money and women, we thought that's all we'd ever need
When the lights go down, and the curtians close
We was heathens on the streets, that only God knows
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas down to die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas down to die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
I said, How many niggas down to die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas down to die with me
I'm too young to get my Z's on
get my cheese on while I'm here bang a bitch
and get my B's on tattoo weed and hennesy
scream NO LIMIT to the enemy tryin' get my skrilla
that's why they label, tag me a young nigga drug dealer
And the FED's steady watchin' but a nigga makin' money
so the tank ain't stoppin'
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
P dawg pass me them let's get 'em
I ride for your homey Tru niggas ain't bullshittin'
respect my tattoos I pay my dues
remember '89 when I made a nigga sing the blues
I was born and raised for this gangsta shit
C-Murder be known for keepin' an extra clip
my Pops say look 'em in the eye before I kill 'em
P crank the Lac up and let's get 'em
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
Nigga whenever you need me I'm already there
its gettin' done hangin' out the window
sayin' WOOO motherfucker UH
You ride for me I'm a ride for you its only fair
here I go fuck them niggas I don't care
where they at what they tryin' do how many
we got shit to live for you weak bitch die skinny
without a penet my clique strong like Ol' Remme
unfriendly in business the wheel still spinnin'
ready to bury you bitches from begining to endin'
I'm telling you to be chillin' you bitch if you
fuck with NO LIMIT
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
Niggas high let Mia mama ready to ride
TRU for life I live kill and die
for the camoflauged soliders leave your stiffs in safes
baddest bitch motherfucker I gave birth to a tank
I ain't gonna just testify and lie for ya'll niggas
I hit the judge and everybody with some choppers and slitters
fuck 'em forget 'em hold the gasoline she lit 'em
ain't gonna ever have to ask did she get 'em
that's all TRU won't you won't do let it be known
guerilla warfare niggas fullblown come on
I'm with you niggas like the heart in me
My love goes farther than them hennesy
Whose got the car keys
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
Now would you go to war for me (man you know I would)
Now would you kill for me (shit you know I would)
Now would you ride for me (no doubt you know I would)
Now would you die for me (why you ask me you know I could)
I wonder who will ride for me probably be true 'em
never knew 'em but even though I was cool with 'em
at times his silly ways grew on me and see I don't
know but time like moving slow and I'm TRU I'm
gonna take my vest off and hit it's bout time to go
and see they got me ridin' with top dollar and challers
niggas bout to get fuckin' smothered for crazy motherfuckers
riders, homies, and brothers for my TRU niggas I'm gonna
get my swerve on my serve on you wan't me come get me
you heard the soul I had a visual moment too tryin' to
save 'em and a nigga still die but I'm gonna kill the
motherfucker who said I'm not TRU and nigga still live
All the world catch a slug nigga catch a slug in the mud
see I'm a TRU thug and this is TRU love nigga what to
my real niggas blastin' toes and I'm gonna empty clip 'til
I can't blast no mo'
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas down to die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
How many niggas wanna ride with me
How many niggas wanna die with me
I said, How many niggas wanna ride with me
Another secret in my life,
Another day I have to fight,
What should I ask myself this time?
Are you the one to break these chains,
Cause I don't ever wanna hurt again,
Give me the time to just believe,
CHORUS
How many love do I begin,
How many times before I win,
How many chances do I have to take,
When will I learn from my mistakes,
Is there a love to set me free,
How many loves you're gonna take on me,
to bring the spell, to bring the change,
How many love?
Seems like a life time passed me by,
And I don't need another reason why
Why I should compromise myself,
So why don't you say there's no one else,
It's only true that I will hear you tell
don't break my heart don't make me leave
Huh, Ride ride, ride ride, ride, gangstas
We ride, fuck these niggas Daz, fuck 'em
Bust a bitch nigga
Please believe that
[Daz]
Motherfuckers wanna come through my block, shoot up and serve they rocks
Uh uh, here we come nigga to shut down your block
Recognize when the nine go pop, that's when they homeboys drop
With a plastic glock made his body lay cold, 12 shots
Nigga tell me what it is, y'all done lost it and forgot
Did I run this motherfucker from the bottom to top
We blast and dash with cops because we just don't give a fuck
When you see me nigga, better hide and duck
With double sight in broad daylight, better stay tight, better pray right
Watch after midnight, nigga better try to get right
Cuz we on a mission all out hunt, smoking hunts
Dip with the potion, motherfuckers acting ferocious
It's like a force I can't control it, you see it in mine
That's when you get burn and you learn, stop fucking with mine (buck, buck, buck)
We intervene and puff green, loaded and high
Cuz tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, some niggas gone die
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
Not you, not you, not you
[Kurupt]
We never gave a fuck, so what the fuck we gone start?
Snatching arms off, bust and puncture your heart
Don't trip homie, I ain't get 'em yet
I'm a penal system vet, off of cigarettes
A mushroom high, get 'em back now sherm right out the bucket, fuck it
Pull it out and pass it around and boom boom up and down
Never knew such a thing could happen,
Fucking pistol whipping you and g nigga go head up wit me, let's start scrapping
I'm tiny as fuck, never bow down to nann nigga
Beware nigga, all gangstas over here nigga
I'm tired of these ho's, I'm a let you niggas know
The ho you love nigga gotta hell-a-fide blow
Listen Bitch, all you'll ever be is a bitch
All you'll ever be to me is a bitch
Can't help it but I keep my mind right nigga
The poltergeist nigga
Once or twice, twice as nice pulling a heist nigga
Never gave a fuck and I don't ever think I will
I'm quick to pull out the glock and pop like pills
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers down to die tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
[Daz]
I wake up early in the morning with the urge to catch you slippin'
If your bloodin' and crippin' nigga your done for and finished
Been in it since the beginning, peeling niggas caps back
On the for realla my nigga cuz it's like that
Girl it ain't but play to bone, we make a living jacking niggas
16, 15, and 7 figga niggas (all y'all bitches)
Beware, 101, Get your gun
And prepare, to get done, blast and run
[Kurupt]
That's right, that's right, pull it out let the bullets fly
Pull it back and fly high,
And fuck the rest, aim and life and live,
Till everything in this motherfucker get hit and burned to a crisp
You heard it right, murder, tonight, today
See everyone in every way
Calypso, unloading a clip though on you ho's
Blazin' up the crip though pictures get painted like Vangoh, I wanna know
[Chorus]
How many niggas down to ride with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers in the house tonight
Not you, not you, not you, not you, not you, my nigga
How many niggas down to die with a nig' tonight
How many real motherfuckers down to die tonight
How many days is it, how many?
I've asked myself since you're not here
I reject to know but it feels,
Like it's hundred years
How many nights I cannot sleep - I am awake
But yet I go astray in dreams
I wander on the stars
I've got even permission beyond time boundary
How many moments I don't think of you
Perhaps the one or just the half
How many emotions which make me chill
I would slip on that ice.
How much emptiness until your return
If all the girls you ever knew were standing here in front of you
I wonder how many there would be
If all the girls you ever kissed were put on paper in a list
I wonder how many there would be
You must've kissed a million for everywhere we go
You seem so well acquainted the way they smile and say hello
If I could count their broken hearts and add my own if we should part
I wonder how many there would be
[ piano - steel ]
You must've kissed a million...
My mind is designed like a Mayan pyramid
When you climb up the steps
You can get where the emerald is
I left witnesses for those who didn't believe
Show the depths of sentences, y'all forbidden to leave
Alphabets become images, you listen to see
How the breath of the lyricist can breathe 3-D
Trapped in each bar, it gets deep with the God
Like the five pillars that they teach at the Mosque
Try to defy Killah and you seek a mirage
Terrifying thriller, have you reaching your heart
Priest fitting to get dark, dark and it can get
Dark as the first nine Pharaohs that ruled Egypt
Dark as the moon cast the shadows that 'cause eclipse
Dark as the ladies with the tarots telling you secrets
Dark as the gun barrel right before you squeeze it
I enter your mind like an auditorium
Your picture was distorted but I restored your film
Now you see clearer, my pen has a lens
Like I'm sitting in a theater
Come back again
Remind you of Rakim, but I'm not him
Though we one and the same, the second coming of Kane
I'm like Kool G Rap, put the Uzi in rap
Or KRS One said it was cool to be black
For Slick Rick announced that the Ruler was back
Back in the days when gold jewelry was fat
Before Wu or Biggie, Nas, Jigga or 50
That was New Yiddy, they ruled the city
On the West Coast, it was run by Death Row
Pac gave 'em Thug Life, but I just hug mics
The grip of the python, the strength in my right palm
Will crush a competitor's life form
(Hook) x2
How many MC's must I defeat?
How many rhymes must I show 'em technique?
How many metaphors?
How many letters in all
How many times must I show you I'm better than y'all?
Rhymes after rhymes, metaphors and lines
Since eighty four I recall the time
Left MC's inside of morgues and shrines
Weak technique get absorbed like wine
Then I piss 'em back under the trees and vines
This rapper that rapper I proved I'm better
Next one, I'm about to battle Webster
Do you think you can handle my pressure?
The weight of my thinking when I play with the ink pen
Is he old or new school?
Nah - I'm in a class by myself
Plus I drop math then I blast like a stealth
The bars you spit I use for chin ups
Soon as you lay 'em down, I press the bench up
Then I start spinning like them windchucks
Each paragraphs is like a Pharaoh in the past
Wide is the dome piece, and narrow is the path
How many times would I have to say it
And how long would it take for you to believe me
How long would it take you, girl
And how many letters in my name
If you can't say it right, would you still be with me
How long would you stay
Look at what you've done to me
We wreck love almost everyday
Nothing gets real sad
I never felt real bad
I don't know why we're sleeping here
I cannot sleep where I feel fear
This bed is too high
And I can see your eyes
How many shows would I have to play in
How long is a road when it never fades away
How far would that take you, girl
And how many people could be good for me
If you keep looking forward, how will you find me
When do you love me
Look at what you've done to me
We wreck love almost everyday
Nothing gets real sad
I never felt real bad
I won't know why I'm sleeping here
I cannot sleep when you're not here
This bed is too nice