Is What It Is

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (Cole)
 Niggas gotta know it is what it is
 Was what it was
 Fabric or design
 Did that just because
 Niggas think they better than REAS', what is it, drugs?
 Thousand on the kicks, lil' bitch, I came from Lugz
 Fightin' with my demons, I'm just shadowboxin' spawn
 Nigga gon' get fucked up if I ever take off the gloves
 Let you niggas live, I did that shit off the love
 Polo on my socks the minute it hit the rug
 You can't walk on this with shoes, nigga
 Them lights hit me, this just center stage
 Look all this juice I got, shit wasn't Minute Maid
 Been here for years, feel like the time stretched
 Left for a minute, came right back like I found next
 Every step I took, I blew up, why this ain't mine yet?
 Got issues with God 'cause He still ain't hit my line yet, trust
 Scared of flyin' sometimes, dumb as it sounds
 It's never the fear of heights but the fear of comin' down
 Lotta niggas that I love not fearin', I'm coming 'round
 Kinda trippy, I rain and can make the climate strange
 I trust these niggas like family, gave 'em time to change
 The woman that birthed me cookin', it was my mistakes (shit)
 I learned a lot from them niggas and how they view me
 They done stone me, rockin' their hair like Lil Uzi
 I done grown on some wild shit
 Now I pay attention, she a eye twitch, where I live
 Orleans slick, nigga, we frost shit
 And that's for any try me, ain't violent but keep it on me like a ID
 'Cause I done seen innocent niggas that ain't did shit catch a slug (yeah)
 Family leavin' flowers, prayin' over blood
 It just is what it is, was what it was (blood)
 Now would you rather go, hard or ballistic?
 Keep it realistic
 Nothin' really move but that money, would you risk it?
 I was broke and hungry, itchin' to kill somethin', my ribs touchin'
 If I pop me a bean then I don't feel nothin'
 All I really see is Cali to me
 I'm from this gravel, all mama, had no daddy with me
 I used to sleep with the roaches
 Had to cope with nothin' but alcoholics and smokers in my family tree
 Grams a dope, distribute it, to snort it like a privilege
 Gutter like skid row, litty like a cigarette
 Don't question why I'm here, I treat this like a stimilus
 Stretch it then flippin' it, hustlin' like an immigrant
 Don't ever let it get to your head
 For the jelly and the envy gon' be wishin' you dead
 Instead of wishin' you bread
 More money, more problems, just the tip of the scale
 Balance 'em both out, the answer is there
 Now pay attention (pay attention)
 Bitch, you know I'm out that ghetto
 Eastside baby, kept bodies under the pillow
 Had no other outlets, gangbangin' or sellin' shit
 Who tellin' shit? We double back and blow up their residence
 Innocent niggas do catch them slugs
 Wrong place, wong time, it'll get you struck
 It is what it is, was what it was
 Every time, every time
 Every time, every-