The Way It Is

Trust me

Let me take it back to the beginning (yeah)

And explain to them exactly how I've been living (where's that?)

All the tragedies I've been given

But nothing stopped me from grabbing hold of my vision (yeah)

I've never had it easy

I'm talking about the days when we had hangers on our TVs (yes)

When I never had it to be greedy

I remember when I used to run a skanky on the P3

I'm talking about the P3 boss

Nothing in the breadcrumbs, the niggas eating crust

Knee before this beefing stuff

When niggas biggest problem was beating sluts (yeah)

But now niggas hustle from 11

And they're like fuck yours, I'm grabbing hold of a weapon

And they're like fuck screwing or cashing none of them lessons

And I'm just thinking what's happening in my presence (yeah)

I'm just tellin' him the way it is

I'm just tellin' him the way I live

Holla man, tell him about the way it is

It's exactly how I say it is

I'm just tellin' him the way it is

I'm just tellin' him the way I live

Holla man, tell him about the way it is

This is exactly how I say it is

I've never asked nobody for nothing

No one ain't helped me except my soldiers with a sutton

That's why I do anything I have to

I made the last throw 'cause all the pain I put my back through (yeah)

And the radio went laying down my rap tunes

Call me criminal, we ain't playing all them rap goons (for real)

Now you gotta understand where I'm coming from

Crazy hood, nigga, I was laying down the facts through

What I do best should I have gone and got a strap through

The only thing I know, no, I laid it on a rap tune

'Cause I'm trying to change, they were forcing me to rap rude

You grew up 'round here, you might be rolling with a strap too (yeah)

Excuse me if I offended anyone through the pain

In my heart, it's the struggle that I come through (struggle that I come through)

I never thought shit would get crazier for one choose

I'm just telling them the way it is

I'm just telling them the way I live

Holla man, tell him about the way it is

It's exactly how I say it is

I'm just telling them the way it is

I'm just telling them the way I live

Holla man, tell him about the way it is

It's exactly how I say it is

Before I be faded away ('way)

Still running up the steps, and I'm pacing away (yeah)

Stealing me to the top, but I'm paving the way (yeah)

I know that I'm a make it, so I'm pacing for change (keep grindin')

I remember standing in the shop waiting for change

As a youth man grabbing a quick chariot

Thinking to myself, I won't be a government slave

I'ma be starting one day and nothing ain't changed

The deep shit that I rap, could you stomach the pain?

Or better yet, could you stomach the gain?

I did my sentence why should I be punished again

Sometimes I feel like I haven't got nothing to gain

They want me saying fuck rap back to flooding the cane

And getting wrapped up and staying at government place

They want me in the box calling the governor's name

And then the governor calls me my government name

Is this the message that they want for the youths of today

Stopping the world gangster that's trying to change

I threw a BET party, they locked up the rave

It never even started, they was fed at the gate

The amount of times I told fuck off, I'm forgetting the game

And he said lower gigs you know you're just setting your ways

But at the same time you know that you're setting the way

If you forget about this you're forgetting the pain

But the feds hate me, they're pissed that I'm slipping away

I was first about to sign I was seconds away

They rang the record label up and they flipping complain

There they go again, are they flipping insane? (Yes)

I thought that it was crazy when they found me from Wayne

They nicked my little brother's pen when he stepped off the plane

Trust me

More motion than you think I'm in