The Way It Is Lyrics By Giggs
Let me take you back to the beginning
And explain to 'em exactly how I been living
(Why's that?)
All the tragedies I been given
But nothing stopped me from grabbin' hold of my vision
I've never had it easy, I'm talking bout the days
When we had hangers on our TV's
When I never had it to be greedy
I remember when I used to run and skank it on the P3
I'm talking bout the P3 bus, nothing in the bread bin
So **** eating crust
Way before these beefing stuffs
When **** biggest problem was being sluts
But now **** hustle from 11
And they're like fuck girls, I'm grabbing hold of a weapon
And they're like fuck school, I ain't catching none of them lessons
And I'm just thinking, what's happening in my presence?
I'm just telling 'em the way it is
I'm just telling 'em the way I live
Hollowman, tell 'em bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
I'm just telling 'em the way it is
I'm just telling 'em the way I live
Hollowman, tell 'em bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
I've never asked nobody for nothing
No one ain't helped me except my soldiers with the suttin
That's why I do anything I have to
I made the last straw 'cause all the pain I put my back through
And the radio weren't laying down my rap tunes
Call me criminal, we ain't playing all them rap goons
Now you gotta understand where I'm coming from
Greasy hood ****, I was laying down the facts through
What I do best, should I have gone and got a strap too?
The only thing I know, no I laid it on a rap tune
'Cause I'm tryna change, they were forcing me to rap rude
You grew up 'round here, you might be rolling with a strap too
Excuse me if I offended anyone
Through the pain in my heart, it's the struggle that I've come through
I never thought shit would get crazy off of one tune
I'm just telling 'em the way it is
I'm just telling 'em the way I live
Hollowman, tell 'em bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
I'm just telling 'em the way it is
I'm just telling 'em the way I live
Hollowman, tell 'em bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
Before I be faded away
Still running up the steps and I'm pacing away
Still ain't made it to the top but I'm paving the way
I know that I'ma make it so I'm patient for change
I remember standing in the shop, waiting for change
As a youth, man, grabbing a quick cherry 'ade
Thinking to myself I won't be a government slave
I'ma be something one day, and nothing has changed
The deep shit that I rap, could you stomach the pain?
Or better yet, could you stomach the game?
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 caine
And getting wrapped up and stay in that 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?
Stop being a real gangsta, that's trying to change
I threw a BET party, they locked up the rave
It never even started, there was feds at the gate
The amount of times I've told Buck I'm forgetting the game
And he says low it Giggs, you know you're just set in 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
The feds hate me, they're pissed that I'm slipping away
I was just about to sign, I was seconds away
They rang the record label up and they flippin' complained
There they go again, are they flippin' insane?
I thought that it was crazy when they banned me from Wayne
They nicked my little brother Spen when he stepped off the plane
(Trust me)
