That's How it Goes Down

[Hook] You're thuggin and you love the streets Huggin the block, sellin rocks, gettin major heat And niggas hatin, and you ain't stop to think about Niggas runnin they mouth, niggas cessed you out That's how it goes down What happened to the days when we could hug a block Flippin rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball, we had it all, and we took a fall [Verse One] I came up in Cokeland, better known as Oakland Your weed could sell, are you smokin? Eighteen with a big Mercedes Sellin dope in the mid-eighties 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 would have thought you could fail at that Bein broke ain't never been cool And it ain't no hope when youre failing in school You might as well flip the sac Roll out of town and take a trip with that Or you could just hit the block Stayin on the corner, come and get the rocks Bein out on the streets as a young teen Wasn't always a fun thing [Hook] You're thuggin and you love the streets Huggin the block, sellin rocks, gettin major heat And niggas hatin, and you ain't stop to think about Niggas runnin they mouh, niggas snitched you out That's how it goes down What happened to the days when we could hug a block Flippin rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball We had it all, and we took a fall That's how it goes down [Verse Two] 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 thing I know you want change And I can't play you wrong man I'm laced with that long game It's just not a lot of choices man You ain't plannin to go to jail with the poison clan So you could be another number in the system, stuck, for years Got a brother in the pen fucked up All the stashes you know you kept And everything that the police left It's too late when you notice it It's all gone, motherfuckers done stole yo shit You wanna kill'em and you still do But realize that real killas get killed too [Hook] [Verse Three] He's dissappeared into thin air, he's nowhere Whens the last time he been here, we don't care Cause he don't come around no mo' Nigga live with his momma, down in brough He's just tryin to 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 thing, fall for the lies Hold your head up high and swallowed the pride Caught in a 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 tryin to change [Hook] That's how it goes down That's how it goes down That's how it goes down [Singing] I remember when we had it all...(we had it all) And I remember when we used to ball...(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