That's How It Goes Down (feat. Oobie)

You thuggin' and you love the streets

Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat

Ya'll **** hatin'

And you may stop to think about

**** runnin' they mouth

**** snitched you out

That's how it goes down

What happened to the days when we

Could hug the block, flippin' rocks, and just get money

I remember when, you and me used to ball

We had it all, never took a fall

I came up in Cokeland, better known as Oakland

You either sell or you smokin'

Eighteen wit a big Mercedes

Sellin' dope in the mid-80s

Homie talkin' bout, I'm about to win

Now when you gon' let 'em all out the pen

You sold crack, to hell and back

Whoever woulda thought you could fail at that

Bein' broke ain't never been cool

And it ain't no hope when you failin' in school

You might as well flip the sac

Roll outta town and take a trip wit that

Or you could just hit the block

Stand on the corner, come and get the rocks

Bein' out on the streets as a young teen

Wasn't always a fun thing

You thuggin' and you love the streets

Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat

Ya'll **** hatin'

And you may stop to think about

**** runnin' they mouth

**** snitched you out

That's how it goes down

What happened to the days when we

Could hug the block, flippin' rocks, and just get money

I remember when, you and me used to ball

We had it all, never took a fall

That's how it goes down

Dope fiend still get high

While dope dealers, barely get by

You better get your life right

You wanna live in the 'burbs with your white wife

Do your own thang

I know you won't change

And I can't play you wrong mane

I'm laced wit that long game

It's just not a lot of choices mane

You ain't plan to go to jail wit the poison clan

So you can be another number in the system, stuck

For years, got a brotha in the pen fucked up

All the stashes you know you kept

And everythang that the police left

It's too late when you noticed it

It's all gone, muthafuckas done stole yo shit

You wanna kill 'em and you still do

But realize real killas get killed too, fool

You thuggin' and you love the streets

Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat

Ya'll **** hatin'

And you may stop to think about

**** runnin' they mouth

**** snitched you out

That's how it goes down

What happened to the days when we

Could hug the block, flippin' rocks, and just get money

I remember when, you and me used to ball

We had it all, never took a fall

That's how it goes down

He disappeared into thin air, he's nowhere

When the last time you've been here, we don't care

'Cause he don't come around no mo'

**** live wit his mama, down and broke

He just tryna survive

I guess it's all right 'cause at least he's alive

'Cause nowadays

A lil' kid might shoot you down

Life's wild in the town

Young fools like to clown

He did the same thang, fall for the lies

Hold your head up high, you swallowed your pride

Caught in the trap, but don't know what you in

Had a million now you ain't got two cents

You can't say nothin', now what

I don't hear you talkin' all that loud stuff

If you live and you die by the game

And you lose, at least you did spend your life tryna change

You thuggin' and you love the streets

Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat

Ya'll **** hatin'

And you may stop to think about

**** runnin' they mouth

**** snitched you out

That's how it goes down

What happened to the days when we

Could hug the block, flippin' rocks, and just get money

I remember when, you and me used to ball

We had it all, never took a fall

That's how it goes down

That's how it goes down

That's how it goes down

That's how it goes down

I remember when we had it all

And I remember when we used to ball, when we used to ball

I remember

Don't you remember

When we had it all, we used to ball

That's how it goes down

That's how it goes down

That's how it goes down