The Way It Is

Lyrics

[Verse 1: Giggs] Let me take you back to the beginning And explain to them exactly how I've been living All the tragedies that I've been given But nothing stop me from grabbing hold of my vision I've never had it easy, I'm talking bout the days when We had hangers on our TVs When I never hide 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 niggas eating crust Way before these beefing stuff When niggas biggest problem was beating sluts But now niggas hustle from 11 And then they're like, fuck girls, I'm grabbing hold of a weapon And then they're like fuck school, I ain't catching none of them lessons And I'm just thinking, what's happening in my presence [Hook] I'm just telling them the way it is I'm just telling them the way I live Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is It's exactly how I say it is I'm just telling them the way it is I'm just telling them the way I live Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is It's exactly how I say it is [Verse 2: Giggs] I never asked nobody for nothing, no one ain't helped me except my soldiers with the suttins 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 Called me criminal, "we ain't paying all them rap goons" Now you gotta understand where I'm coming from Greasy hood nigga 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 rollin' 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 over one tune8 [Hook] I'm just telling them the way it is I'm just telling them the way I live Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is It's exactly how I say it is I'm just telling them the way it is I'm just telling them the way I live Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is It's exactly how I say it is [Verse 3] Before I be faded away, still runnin' up the steps and I'm pacing away Still ain't made it to the top but I'm paving a way I know that imma make it so I'm patient for change I remember standing in the shop, waiting for change As a yout man, grabbin' a quick cherryade Thinking to myself I won't be a government slave Imma be something one day and nothing ain't 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 ain't got nothing to gain They want me say fuck rap, back to flooding the caine And getting wrapped up and stay in that government place They want me in the box, callin' the governor's name And then the governor calls me my government name Is this the message that they want for the youts of today Stop being a real gangsta that's trying to change I threw a BET party, they locked off the rave It never even started, there was feds at the gate The e amount of times I've told Buck I'm forgetting the game And he says lowe it Giggs, you know you're just set in your ways But at the same time you know that you're settin' the way If you forget about this, you're forgetting the pain The feds hate me, the're pissed that I'm slippin' 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 stopped off the plane