How Did We Get Here

Lyrics

[Intro: R. Kelly] (I don't know how we made it..) January boy, Crack.. [Verse 1: Fat Joe] Yo, it was all a dream, couldn't save B.I.G. and Pac Right in broad day watch the fiends bodies drop And at night you gotta turn your TV volume up 'Cause the cop sirens blast up and down my block Shit ain't been the same is what you hear on my block Bunch of old school gangstas telling tales on my block Came home tatted tears and a plan to get paid You put it in a pot, said a prayer and it came What can make you smile'll be the thing to bring you pain Is what my daddy told my momma going through her labor pains Is what my momma told me as the cops took me away Eazy-E said "fuck 'em", yeah I feel the same way Another dead body is just another homicide But niggas trying to kill us, why we call it Darkside The streets is, ruthless, even sold to my own blood No love, just a youngin' trying to blow up [Chorus: R. Kelly] So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? From the middle of no where Came up out these streets we made it, yeah So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? (How did we get here?) From the middle of no where, somebody tell me, how? [Verse 2: Fat Joe] Me and my niggas taking pictures trying to freeze time Jus' some lil' niggas doing shit we can't rewind Know what I'm saying? Shit is real, fuck what y'all thought Too many niggas getting killed on the ball court They was chasing hoop dreams and I was busting sawed offs And if your jewels gleamed, I would take 'em all off Extend my organization, the crib swarming with agents Moms crying, we pacing like lions in cages Mob giants turned into some clients with cases Some niggas made statements Some niggas made the papers, damn What part of the game is that? I mean to hustle all my life, but I do love rap They got my knees straight, put the battery in my back This is around the same time Calderon got clapped He told me put my life in music, "Joey, broaden your dreams You can do it, look at Finesse, it ain't as hard as it seems" [Chorus: R. Kelly] So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? From the middle of no where Came up out these streets we made it, yeah So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? (How did we get here?) From the middle of no where (Oh), somebody tell me, how? How? [Verse 3: Fat Joe] Ain't this nice I'm bigger than life In a Jacuzzi, smoking a Cohiba but this ain't a movie Before I wasn't attractive, now I pack the house with groupies Rubbing shoulders with actors, just imagine how would you be Rocking the latest fashion, this is Juicy, all over again 2010, its like B.I.G. is living through me Chances (?) from crack to rap, now the paper's greater Trying to see me on that block, I'll see you haters later I'm so high, I defy gravity, nigga fuck a star, I'm a galaxy So out of space they can't grab at me Feds ain't nabbing me, I'm all legit My bankroll much thicker, blame it on the hits I started off with bricks, now I own offices Who would have thought I got all this from talking slick? Yeah, we went from day-breakers to tax payers It was once all a dream, now the labels pay us [Chorus: R. Kelly] So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? From the middle of no where Came up out these streets we made it, yeah So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? (How did we get here?) From the middle of no where (Oh), somebody tell me, how? [Verse 4: R. Kelly] I was supposed to be dead (Oh) I was in them streets real bad (real bad) Dreams of houses in the hills I was hustling just to make it real But now I came up and I'm number one (Number one) Y'all know the story, mo' money mo' problems In these streets (In these streets), live or die (Live or die) And I lived, I don't know why [Chorus: R. Kelly] So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? From the middle of no where (No where) Came up out these streets we made it, yeah So tell me how did we, how did we, how did we get here? From the middle of no where (No where, no where), somebody tell me, how?