That's How It Goes Down (feat. Oobie)

You're thugging and you love the streets
 Hugging the block, selling rocks, getting major heat
 And niggas hating, and you ain't stop to think about
 Niggas running they mouth, niggas 'cessed you out
 That's how it goes down
 What happened to the days when we could hug a block
 Flipping rocks and just get money
 I remember when you and me used to ball
 We had it all, and we took a fall
 I came up in Coke land, better known as Oakland
 Your weed could sell, are you smoking?
 Eighteen with a big Mercedes
 Selling dope in the mid-eighties
 Homie talking 'bout I'm about to win
 Now when you goin' let them all out the pen
 You sold crack to hell and back
 Whoever would have thought you could fail at that?
 Being broke ain't never been cool
 And it ain't no hope when you're failing in school
 You might as well flip the sack
 Roll out of town and take a trip with that
 Or you could just hit the block
 Staying on the corner, come and get the rocks
 Being out on the streets as a young teen
 Wasn't always a fun thing
 You're thugging and you love the streets
 Hugging the block, selling rocks, getting major heat
 And niggas hating, and you ain't stop to think about
 Niggas running they mouth, niggas snitched you out
 That's how it goes down
 What happened to the days when we could hug a block
 Flipping 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
 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 planning 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 them and you still do
 But realize real killers get killed too
 You're thugging and you love the streets
 Hugging the block, selling rocks, getting major heat
 And niggas hating, and you ain't stop to think about
 Niggas running they mouth, niggas 'cessed you out
 That's how it goes down
 What happened to the days when we could hug a block
 Flipping rocks and just get money
 I remember when you and me used to ball
 We had it all, and we took a fall
 He's disappeared into thin air, he's nowhere
 When the last time he been here, we don't care
 'Cause he don't come around no more
 Nigga live with his momma, down in brough
 He's just trying to survive
 I guess it's alright '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 nothing, now what
 I don't hear you talking all that loud stuff
 If you live and you die by the game and you lose
 At least you did spend your life trying to change
 You're thugging and you love the streets
 Hugging the block, selling rocks, getting major heat
 And niggas hating, and you ain't stop to think about
 Niggas running they mouth, niggas 'cessed you out
 That's how it goes down
 What happened to the days when we could hug a block
 Flipping 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
 That's how it goes down
 That's how it goes down
 That's how it goes down
 I remember when 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