| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| Sittin in my room smokin cheeba
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| And then I heard the beep of my beeper
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| Callin back, «Yo brother, what you need?»
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| Ounce of lleyo and a forty and weed
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| Got in my ride for the drop-off
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| But when I got there it was nothin but a knock-off
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| He said, «Yo, I’m gonna make it clear and simple»
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| And then he put a Uzi to my temple
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| «Damn right Schoolly-School, it’s a set-up
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| And if you’re smart you just shut up
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| Give me all your gold and your cash
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| So a brother like me’ll make a dash
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| Like a bullet from a A.K.
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| Sometime it got to be that way»
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| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| Yo brotherman, I was fakin
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| Who the hell do they think that they’re gankin?
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| Always tryin to tell a brother how to live
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| But reality they don’t really give (don't give a damn)
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| How to hell you gon' tell me what to do?
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| When I’m livin in the ghetto in the zoo
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| Cause to you I ain’t nothin but a nigga
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| And to me you ain’t nothin but a sucker and a gold-digger
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| Like a bullet from a A.K.
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| Yo homes, this is what I figure
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| In order for us to get bigger
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| Sometime we got to pull on the trigger
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| Sit back and take a little swigger
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| Of Miller, smoke a little killer
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| For a brother on the street it’s notin but a thriller
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| All this, you’re talkin all that
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| But you still sell a brother a cat
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| You didn’t know it was the 911
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| Now they got another brother on the run
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| Like a bullet from a A.K.
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| My destination I crusade, don’t question what I’m doin
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| To keep the brothers hype and leave the suckers boo-hooin
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| To sway away the sayers that’s frontin on what I’m sayin
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| Or trippin, even flippin and knowin I ain’t playin
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| And playin, yeah buddy, that’s the word
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| Describin all the games bein played in the rock world
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| I would like to do it, liked to tell you, my man
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| But we’re in America, I might get banned
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| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| It got to be that way
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| Sometime it got to be that way
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| (Bass) |