How Did We Get Here

Oh, I dont know how we made it.

Crack.

Verse 1

[Fat Joe]

Yo

It was all a dream, couldnt save Big and Pac

Right in broad day watch the fiends bodies drop

And at night you gotta turn your TV volume up

Cuz the cop sirens blast up and down my block

Shit aint been the same is what you hear on my block

Bunch of old school gangstas telling tales on my block

Came home tatted tears in a plan to get paid

Put it in a box said a prayer and it came

What can make you smile and be the thing to bring you pain

Is what my daddy told my momma going through her labor pains

Is what my momma told me as the cops took me away

Eazy-E said "fuck'em", ya i feel the same way

Another dead body, its another homicide

But n*ggas tryna kill us that why we call this, dark side

The streets is, ruthless even sold to my own blood

No love just a youngin tryna blow up.

Chorus

[R. Kelly]

So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here

From the middle of no where, from up out these streets we made it ya

So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here

from the middle of no where ya, somebody tell me, how?

Verse 2

[Fat Joe]

Me and my *ggaz takin pictures how i freeze time

Lil n*ggaz doin shit we cant rewind, know what im sayin?

Shit is real fuck what yall thought,

Too many n*ggaz gettin killed on the ball court

They was chasing hoop dreams and we was busting sawed offs

And if your shoes gleamed, i would take them all off

Extend my organization the crib swarming with agents

Moms cryin, we based it like lions in cages

Mob giants turn it some clients with cases

Some n*ggaz made statements, some n*ggaz made payments damn

What part of the game is that, I mean to hustle all my life

But i do love rap, they got my knees straighted

put the battery to my back,

this is around the same time Calderon got clapped