Y?

Why is that?

Why is that?

Why is that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Be like that, it just be like that

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

I wasn't sleepin', I was creepin', slidin', hidin'

I would lock the door behind me, roll up a fat Thai

And thinking, mentally sinking, presently bringing

Two decades and a half, makin' a path for mine to follow

The world is hollow, yet it's full of crap, prepare to gamble

I give you a handful of chips and tips of what's to come

I cried a ton of tears, drunk a ton of beers

It's fun at first, but learn to persevere

Throughout the years, kept my ears open, eyes scoping

Mouth locked, don't rock the boat if you can't swim

Nobody may not be there with the limb to lend

This is the end, still I can't explain the fact

Why in the fuck shit gotta be like that

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Know why I said it, hear me clear and know it's so severe

And dreaded, that they need to be beheaded

Why I'm readily, steadily, stimulating and mutilating all sloppily copied

Imitations 'cause they irritating

So I'm intimidating them over the snare with simply a stare

Bringing them turbulent terror and

They know this 'cause they can feel it

He knew that it was mine, still the sucker tried to steal it

So I had to reveal it, through proving that I

Am astonishing and fly, and by just winking my eye

In a flash, I flush out the face laying low key

Trained eyes locate to focus on the phony

Mister sometime-y homie, why he act like that?

I thought he had my back, I thought he had our backs

But it was him, who I should have never trusted

Or not at least until he got his attitude adjusted

Or mouth busted, for acting all dusted

But bust this now, when I'm out I seek and sort out the whole scene

For all sinister types sneak that scheme

They come into my face, I send them tight men home

When they be suffering from the double agent syndrome (why?)

Why it gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Sometimes this world means everything to me (everything to me)

The insight is lovely through these eyes I see (through these eyes I see)

And sometimes in my mind all I wanna do is cry (why?)

Highly upset, but nothing drops from my eye (eye)

Thoughts run out my skin 'cause I'm pissed from within (uh-huh)

I see a situation now and all I do is grin (all I do is grin)

People think I'm high, but I'm mentally traveling (mentally traveling)

Aging in short times 'cause life's unraveling (unraveling)

While I'm straddling walls of this fucking mic (mic)

I'd hate to be a pilot crashing in the flight (crashing in the flight)

People need to know about this thing called life (called life)

'Cause if you see the light, then life's alright (so can you dig it?)

So what, so what, so what (be like that, it just be like that) (can you dig it?)

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that (can you dig it?)

So what, so what, so what (be like that, it just be like that) (can you dig it?)

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that (can you dig it?)

I jumped inside the Jeep as I embark on my dark mission

Popped in my freestyle tapes, start reminiscing

'Bout my little homie, who was raised in Wyoming

Wanted to be famous, so he came to Californey

On the microphony, was super bad and what not

But he was the kind of fella to follow fads that was hot

He became so fascinated with that gang-related flavor

That he modificated, rearranged his behavior

He hooked up quick with the influential slang

Gangsta strolls, cornrolls, the whole shebang

Bragging and boasting, boasting and bragging

How he mostly be hanging with baby G's I was bagging

Like why you trying to hoo-ride up on the bandwagon?

Hoping to hit him in the head, but he steady sagging

Like he a hog, creeping through the smog

Smoking on some indo, sipping on a cup of O-Dog

Like most who come to this West Coast society

Try to be because they think it's fly to be a menace

So what a relic way to end this

Got rolled up when he was strolling on a Sunday up in Venice

**** never listen, they gotta learn their lesson

The hard way I'm guessing, yes indeed-y

As I hit the B, and make a right on Weston

Pops in my head the proverbial question

Why it

Be like that, it just be like that?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Baby, tell me why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why (be like that, it just be like that)?

Why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why?

Why it's gotta be like that?

Why it's gotta be like that?

Why it's gotta be like that?

Tell me why?