Forget thug life, stay in school, you can be a lawyer, too.

"I lived the thug life," he said at the time.

And there's this whole culture of admiration for the thug life, as they call it.

"I didn't create thug life," he says in defense of his gangsta reputation.

The city would also make life coaching and job counseling available to those who wanted out of the thug life.

The inner-city thug life, the longing-to-be-large attitude was the attraction.

He was self-conscious enough to see that a true thug life couldn't last long, and talented enough to make his misgivings known.

Will goes further, and sinks deeper, than any of the other white hip-hoppers manques in trying to embrace the thug life.

Namely: It celebrates the thug life of drugs, violence, and general sociopathic idiocy.

Thug Life is a 2001 film written, produced, and directed by Greg Carter.