Back2TheWayItWas

Back 2 The Way It Was (Xplicit Album Version) - Xzibit

Yeah yo c'mon

Ride wit me lemme take you somewhere

My father was a soldier my mother was a rider

I was born wit my fists balled up I'ma fighter

Inspired a real rhyme writer

Get past the past the future looks brighter

But I wanna get it back to the way it was

Exchange blows elbows and it was still love

A better time better place in space

Cause nothin can erase shame tat' like my ni**a Chase

Cause Bigga B will never be replaced right

And I'ma scream it to the whole f**kin human race

Get a bar get a taste

Enforce the muscle to ya hustle and ya did it with grace

Cause real niggaz don't save face they make movements

Back to the time when hip-hop was music

When N W A got booed at the Apollo

Broke "Straight Outta Compton" and the whole world followed

Cause right now hip-hop is hollow

With no substance X-Man with the roughness

Cause success can suck sometime

And many of us the way we act we even lost our minds

You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face

But you can never ever take my place

I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong

Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)

You can speculate on every breath I take

But you can never ever take my place

I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong

Through the struggle I will live on

Back to the day when +Cooley+ was +High+

Hustle big like Butch in the Y-B-I

We did it 'n died the gang still multiplied

Sock yo windpipe cut yo air supply

Hypnotized not by the glitz 'n glamour

So f**k them cameras all I need is clips and hammers

The X-Man said that the first rhyme out

Were my fans worth my time The first line out so

Here we are eight years strong and still movin

Groovin with a reputation ya can't ruin

I wanna take it back how it used to be

Five thousand f**ked up rockin outta unity

You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face

But you can never ever take my place

I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong

Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)

You can speculate on every breath I take

But you can never ever take my place

I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong

Through the struggle I will live on

Was it the alcohol in you the money the power the fame

That made you actually attempt to try to disgrace my name

Played those games ni**a when I was younger in life

'Til I seen another man's life cut short with a knife

Lose teeth cause beef no peace with us

Ya can't hang and ya sho' can't eat with us

When times get tough the tough get rough and drastic

Never been blasted never been an arrogant bastard

But I coulda been a lawyer I shoulda been a doctor