[ras kass]

I been around the world oncehad your fianc? twice

I ain't nothin' nicebut every lifestyle got a price

Kiss my momma on the cheek cause her love was deep

Like keith sweatbut the deeper the streets get

The deeper the beef get

Enough fatal attraction to boil your pet

Cause everybody wanna have it lavish and sh

Nowcourvoisier is my dossier overnightinsight

I write like six hundred thousand kilobytes

Yes I'm on oneeuropean carscuban cigarsrap stars

Glass ceilings to the inevitable cap peeling for sexual healing

I lack feelingvoted for black women like terry macmillan

Save a prayer for meI was told no guts no glory

I shed a tear once in a whiletoo

But a soldier gots to do what he gots to do

I want stock in fox with rupert murdochI thought you knew

It is what it is



Hook:

[jazze pha] nowadaysthat's the way it is

[ras kass] why do we do what we do when we do what we mustthat's

How it isand how it is is kinda fucked up

[jazze pha] it's sad to saybut things just ain't the same no more

[ras kass] why do we do what we do when we do what we lustit is

What it isand how it is is kinda fucked up



[ras kass]

If the pussy is freethen talk is cheap

Then againit's probably cheaper to keep her

Back in the daysall a nigga needed was suede pumas and a beeper

Now they all expecting condosbriquettes and pet cheetahs

See ya when I see ya

And by then I know the motivesshe bogus

I noticed her jocking the rims on the lotus

I learned early to trust God when moms was like

[you wear all that nike shit]

You need to swoosh your ass and get a job

My occupation be operationmore horsepower than daytona

Cause I'm a riderlike winona

Being nice is a vicethe gift is naturally mine

That's like +grand verbalizer+ not knowing the time

Seemy partners commit crimes serving federal bids

Confined to a six by nine regrettin the wrong shit he did

I swearwishing we was still little kids

But we grown men now homeyit is what it is



Hook



[ras kass]

Hip hop ain't even fun

In these strange daysrappers is getting done

Like jericho won

Within two monthstwo major artists got slumped

I whispered God rest the dead and let the blaupunkt pump

Kept a part and a fade since about eleventh grade

Rock the donna karan shades

Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid

But I'm afraid I do

Trying to organize a teamwilling to empty magazines

This supreme fiends for cream

We need jesus like mary magdalene and born again christians

Ain't a politician cause I already got your vote

TrueI want your money but I ain't a preacher no

I don't even love the dough

But if you don't work you don't eat

So I want all I can get before I go

I love what money can get

It's elementary evidentlythe custom convertible bentley tempt me

It is what it is



Hook x2



[jazze pha]

There are things that we can change

Some things remain the same

That's just the way it is

Way it goesyeah

There are things that we can change

But most things gon' stay the same

It's the way it is

You better believe itooh yeah