标题：Ruthless for Life
专辑信息
中译：残酷的人生[1]
所属艺人：MC Ren [2]
发行时间 ：1998.6.30[2]
录制时间：1998       
风格：West Coast Hip Hop，Hardcore Hip Hop，Gangsta Rap [2]
厂牌：Ruthless[2]
时长：50：10[2]　
专业评分：Allmusic 4/5[2]
专辑简介
专辑由全新的制作人制作，并且有许多嘉宾客串，包括了Snoop Doggy Dogg, Ice Cube, Eightball & MJG和RBX。
AMG的专栏作者斯蒂夫.托马斯.艾尔维恩（Stephen Thomas Erlewine）如此评价这张专辑：
“...MC Ren作为一个后来居上的Gangsta Rap艺人，成功的利用沉重的鼓点和极低的贝斯音武装了自己。虽说一名N.W.A的前成员的风格变成No Limit厂牌下的那种风格是十分可怕的，但是Ren很好的避免了这一情况。虽说Ruthless for Life这张专辑的歌曲略显薄弱，歌词也有些陈旧，但比起N.W.A那种传统的风格已经好了很多。所以总的来说，Ruthless for Life这张专辑使MC Ren重振雄风——这张专辑给了MC Ren一个展示当代音乐的机会，而不是久经风雨的说唱老兵的那种回忆式的专辑，一定意义上，这是MC Ren最好的个人专辑了。”[3]（...MC Ren reconfigures himself as a latter-day gangsta rapper, complete with stoned beats and loping basslines. It's sort of disconcerting to hear a former N.W.A rapper trying to position himself as a member of the No Limit posse, but Ren does this fairly well. There are a few weak tracks on Ruthless for Life and all of his ideas are a little shopworn, but it does sound better than another collection of hardcore post-N.W.A hip-hop would have. So, Ruthless for Life does revitalize Ren -- it gives the opportunity to sound like a contemporary rather than a washed-up veteran. And that, in a way, makes it one of his better solo records. ）[4]
专辑在最佳R&B榜单上获得了第14名，[5]并且在Billboard 200榜上获得了第100名。[5]
上市音轨
1."Ruthless for Life" (4:24) (Produced by L.T. Hutton)
2."Who in the Fuck?" (featuring: Eightball & MJG) (4:04) (Produced by T-Mix)
3."Nigga Called Ren" (4:06) (Produced by Ant Banks)
4."Comin' After You" (featuring:Ice Cube) (4:16) (Produced by Bobcat)
5."Voyage to Compton" (4:24) (Produced by T-Mix)
6."Must Be High" (3:23) (Produced by T-Mix)
7."So Whatcha Want?" (featuring: Snoop Dogg, RBX) (4:40) (Produced by L.T. Hutton)
8."Shot Caller" (featuring: Big Rocc, Tha Chill) (4:22) (Produced by Raw Steele)
9."All the Same" (3:29) (Produced by Ant Banks)
10."Who Got That Street Shit?" (4:47) (Produced by Touchtone)
11."Pimpin' Is Free" (featuring: Peeps) (4:14) (Produced by Alan "Byrd" Tatum, Larry Johnson)
12."CPT All Day" (4:19) (Produced by Young Tre) [4]
采样信息
歌曲名采样歌曲Pimpin' Is Free Remix for P Is Free by Boogie Down Productions (1987)[6]Ruthless for Life Music Box by Philip Glass (2001) [7]Voyage to Compton Voyage to Atlantis by The Isley Brothers (1977)[8]

单曲信息
发行日期：1998
发行方式：12"黑胶，CD[1]  Ruthless for Life单曲封面录制时间：1998
风格：West Coast Hip Hop，Hardcore Hip Hop，Gangsta Rap 
时长：4：24[2]
厂牌：Ruthless[2]
作词者：MC Ren（洛伦索.帕特森Lorenzo Patterson）[2]
作曲家：L.T. Hutton（L.T.哈顿）[2]
专业评分：Allmusic 4/5[2]
单曲简介
Ruthless for Life是MC Ren的同名专辑中的第一首歌，并且是第一首单曲。Ruthless for Life这首歌是为了纪念MC Ren在N.W.A中的同伴Eazy-E。这首单曲在U.S.Rap榜上取得了第16名，[3]并且在U.S.R&B榜上取得了第61名。[3]同时这首单曲距离MC Ren于2009年的发行单曲Renincarnated整整11年。[4]
上市音轨
A-Side1."Ruthless for Life" (LP Version)- 4:22
2."Ruthless for Life" (LP A Cappella)- 4:02
B-Side1."Ruthless for Life" (Clean Radio Edit)- 3:40
2."Ruthless for Life" (Instrumental)- 4:22
采样信息
歌曲采样了Philip Glass于2001年发行的专辑中的"Music Box"。（因为歌曲录制时间早于Ruthless for Life）
歌词
[Chrous X2]
The saga continues right before your eyes
The saga continues cause its do or die
The saga continues right before your eyes
You know why (why)
Cause I'm ruthless for life
Nigga ten years passed and we still up in that ass
Villain make it or continue it
Look at all the shit you in
Eazy does it that be like the shit we used to do
Five niggaz comin' out the C-P-T so fuck you
Time changed for the good
Niggaz in the hood be comin' up
Villain can you set it off again, you know you should
Yo let's that this shit back
To 1989
Where this nigga shit I'm bustin niggaz know they couldn't find
Dream Team members
Egyptian fan base
Villain hit the scene, all them fools got erased
Threw a mothafuckin' monkey wrench up in the rap game
Since I hooked up with E, shit ain't ever been the same
Opened up doors for you niggaz that be thinkin
that your flows be on tizight
Bitin' what I wrizite
Chokin' when I recite
Killin' manuscripts
When I MC, if it ain't rough it ain't me
[Chorus X2]
Real mothafuckin' G'z, nigga like Eric Wright
You can floss for your bitch, but you know this shit is tight
Cause when y'all niggaz started rappin', who'd you try and be?
I'ma slap you cause you lying, if you don't be sayin' me
Or the other three, that the FBI be phone tappin'
Shook the government before you niggaz started rappin'
Now its chrome city, I gotta bomb it like Iraq
Use my alias, spend my nights at the shack
Ruthless attack all the way to two thou
Try to block it out, but you never knew how
And when I walk through the crowd
I'm seeing mothafucka's grin
I hear they bitches sayin' that's MC Ren
Makin' fools sway when I bought a King Tex's
Because I started cussin' all you fools gettin' checks
Ruthless for life, see that be my state of mind
Y'all can kiss my black ass one more time
[Chorus X2]
I run a hundred miles just so I can MC
Villian want that bomb so I get with L.T.
Ain't nothin' changed
We find 'em, fuck 'em, then we flee
While you hatin', pillow talkin', with that bitch, she want me
Niggaz we crazy, Dre and Snoop turned you out
Now y'all cristal sippin', y'all niggaz be trippin'
Make the West look like ass, all full of shit
Invest in drug money, shit, still didn't hit'
What it take for y'all quit
Ruthless got it on lock
Y'all shootin' videos tryin' to look like Pac
Here we come, here we go, blowin' up your spot
My little brother Jubee and the big homie Rock
Full circle, all this shit gon' repeat
When this shit drop, niggaz clownin' in the streets
The saga continues right before your eyes
Villain gives a fuck?
Cause this is ruthless for life
[Chorus till fade][5]
歌词中译
【副歌重复两次】
传奇，没错，就在你眼前继续，
传奇依旧意为非死即是给予
传奇在你眼前继续
这是为了什么?（什么？）
因为这是我对生命的无情
过去十年了，黑鬼，我们依然徘徊
恶棍创造了并且在进步
再看看你在搞什么废物
"Eazy-Duz-It"这是我们的专辑
是五个来自康普顿的黑鬼，所以滚你的狗屁
时间因商业而转换
那些来自平民窟的黑鬼
你们能再次引爆它，你知道这是应该
所以让时间倒退
到1989年
这样一个强大的黑鬼他们怎么也无法找见
梦之队的成员
埃及也有粉丝
恶棍登场，所有人都被擦成白痴
拿着个扳手在那里说唱
但自从我和Eazy结成兄弟，这种傻事不曾想
为你那正在思考的兄弟开门
flow行云流水
唱出那我所写
开玩笑时我正背着
那迷人的歌词草稿
如果那不粗犷，那就非我所写
【副歌重复两次】
这是真正该死的黑人匪帮，就像Eazy-E
你可以炫耀你的婊子，不过这才牛B
因为当你的兄弟在说唱时，你又在干什么？
我要扇你个大耳光，因为你说谎，你不愿说我名
或者是其他三人，FBI一直想把我们传呼
早在你那些伙计说唱前就震撼了政府
现在这里已经是一片废墟，就像轰炸后的伊拉克
我用假名，住在帐篷那儿
残酷，攻击着所有通往两千年的路
你想要挡住，但你永远不知道
我什么时候，怎样走进人群
我看到那混蛋的笑脸
我听到贱妇说那就是MC Ren
我买了防风衣，你们全部开始颤抖
全来阻止我，因为我要进行侮辱
看，对生命的残酷，成了我大脑的一分部
而你，也能再来亲我那黑色的臀部
【副歌重复两次】
我奔跑了一百英里终于成为一名MC
恶棍想要获得那炸弹，所我合作——和L.T.
没什么改变了
我找到他们，干掉他们，然后我们逃亡
就在你恨着我，躺在床上，和婊子讲着夜话时，但她要的是我
黑鬼我们都疯了，Dre和Snoop出现了[6]
你们全是婊子，[7]你们全是傻子
把整个西海岸搞得一团糟
投了大把钱，却仍是一团糟
你们想要逃了
Ruthless立刻制止了
你们的喷激MV马上就学习2pac
来吧，来吧，我要把你们抹得一干二净
因为我有我的小兄弟Jubee和Big Rock
结束了，我再次重复
当事情到了低潮时，你们就将是街头的小丑
传奇还在继续
恶棍们开始注意了——
因为这是残酷的人生！
【副歌一直重复到音乐消失】[8]