looking for song so long

for soooo long i've been looking for song that goes like this:
"livin my life like a gangsta" and its somethin like pop, hip-hop, i dont know for sure but its not rap, male voices are singing...
i need the artist or the name of the song, or both
i heard it years ago a couple of times, it must be arond 2000, 2001 maybe 2002


help please?

Is it this?

It was released in 2001.

Tha Dogg Pound - We Livin Gangsta Like


Yeah Yeah

Gangsta like, uh huh

To all my O.G.'s and all my Y.G.'s

Daz Dillinger, Daz kurupt (dat ***** daz!)

[Xzibit]

I move bricks of yae, I freeze it with ice

I keep my business separate from my personal life

Me and my *****s hustle enough, move enough weight

To buy real estate, vehicles, paper weights, straight

Little *****s try to calculate the money I make

I ain't having it, I keep the gauge cocked in the kitchen cabinet

Grabbing it for any altercation

catch a permanent vacation ****ing with the son of satan

And I ain't waiting for the one time to catch me

Arrest me, arraign me, humiliate then stress me

I'm at the crib trying to chill with my little kid

Had everything in controlled or at least I thought I did

Telephone rang, when I answered then they hung up

Three *****s kicked the front door with they guns up,

Cover my son up, and let the lead off

Get the pump to pumping, Xzibit took them *****s heads off (*****!)

[Chorus - 2X]

We living gangsta like (living the gangsta life)

Living the gangsta's life (living the gangsta life)

We living gangsta like (living the gangsta liiiiiife)

Living the gangsta's life

[Daz]

I wake up five in the morning, smoke a sac to the head

Sneak out the back, grab a strap, and dock and dogging the feds

Slanging hanging on the corner regulating the hood

Banging and robbing transporting the goods (*****)

Popping and bugging up on the cell in my pocket

Grab my strap and **** it and see my homie hopping the fo's

Watch the young ho's jocking that gangsta life

*****s is heated down to dump on site

Nah, I just swerve the boulavard and maintain the status of a G

Cuz ain't nothing but the hog in me

*****s around my way don't get along with me (why?)

Because they jelous that I'm clocking more than thirty G's

*****, cocaine and weed was a main factor in my life, I'm coming up

I'm running on anybody who post and ran up

Everybody in my family path was jail

Heaven and hell, that's where my homies 'ill dwell

STRAIGHT GANGSTA!

[Chorus]

Chorus X2

[Bridge]

What would you do if you could

Get with my crew, baby

What would you do if you could down with the dog pound

[Kurupt]

Gangstas, just let it all go no games

No snitching allowed, spitting no names

I'm G…and You ain't…

I can….and you can't…

Ever since you dropped names, your out of sight

Snitching on your homeboys, that ain't right

I always grew up since eighteen and up

With something to throw up, what hood we threw up? (Dogg Pound Gangstas)

Blast backs at times we got bust at

Turn around, bust back then scat

Moving on up to the top of the map

Cuz gangstas 'ill be here 'till the curl come back

This is our world, land of the gangsta macks

Controlled by the blue and red rags

Out here we ain't into ice

Just banging, dice, and the gangsta life

noo thats not it but thanx anyway

This is older than your timeframe but you never know...
Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta
I'm not going to post the lyrics. You can google them.

no, i'm sure they singing "livin my life like a gangsta"(chours) and it's not rap song :/
i think artist isn't famous

thats all i know...

The only artist I can think of that might have lyrics like this, but is not a "rapper" would be Beck. Try that

noo i couldnt find anything from beck

Gangsters Paradise? Coolio ...

Originally Posted by kirknga

Gangsters Paradise? Coolio ...

no that i know

Try "Throw Some D's Freestyle" by Lil Wayne

"Living like a gangsta get it like a hustla"

no, this is why i've been looking so long for this song... Its a popish song where they sing "livin my life like a gangsta" that i am sure of. and that its from before 2002

Thanks guys anyway you have a nice forum here

I just cannot find a "pop" song with the word "gangsta".
My next wild guess is "Colors" by Ice T

I am a nightmare walking psychopath talking
king of my jungle just a gangster stalking
Living life like a firecracker quick is my fuse
Then dead as a deathpack the colors I choose
red or blue cause a blood it just don't matta

no, thanks for the effort, i think i give up

Okay, here's my opinion. The closest thing I can think of is to go w/ Shans on this one. Geto Boys "Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta." They are rappers, however, this song (as most of theirs are) isn't fast, and has a more singing tone. Also, you may try it screwed and chopped. That really slows the beat of the song to the point that it doesn't sound at all like rap. Check out swishahouse.con. Also, I found the Blue Climax Band, off of Office Space soundtrack. You may try that too. If that doesn't work I'm not sure what will. Give it a go and lemme know what you figure out.