That`s How I`m Livin Lyrics

That`s How I`m Livin lyrics

I was born in new jersey  I said it before  

 But I guess nobody heard me  

 My mother died young  

 No sistas or brothas  I was the only son  

 When I was twelve my pops died too  

 What a brotha was supposed to do?  

 They sent me out West  

 To live with my aunt  

 I guess they though it was the best  

 But there was no love there  

 Growin' with no moms  

 I guess I was prepared to live in a vacuum  

 The bedroom the kitchen  the hall and the bathroom  

 I didn't leave home much, didn't like L.A.  

 Didn't have no friends to trust  

 Got busted to a school  

 Blacks and whites, I guess the shit was cool  

 But in highschool I changed  

 Didn't wanna bust, didn't wanna play the game  

 I walked to Crenshaw high, shit was fly  

 I hooked up with new cru  

 Some brothas that knew what the fuck to do  

 You might call it gang but we called it a set  

 And it was our own thang  

 The whole school was down  

 And one way or another everybody fucked around  

 When the hardcore or not  

 you wore the right color or your ass got shot  

 That's how i'm livin'...  

  

 I did three years in and made close friends  

 Havin' no love my homies came my only  

 I was glad: a family I never had  

 But I grew up fast got a girl on 10th grade pregnant  

 Needin' cash, I had to change my style  

 Switched from bangin' to hustlin'  

 No more goin' buckwild  

 Had to get a cashflow  

 But my hustle was weak, it was a no go  

 I join the army, four years in that shit  

 Be all fucked you can be  

 Came back to the hood  

 My homies had done good  

 Had elevated their game  

 About 100 gees a lick, no mothafuckin' shame  

 Passed for the jewels  

 Baby sledgehammers with the tools  

 I speak on this with a hesitation  

 Even though it passed the statue of limitation...  

  

 I checked the bank  

 Bought a porsche and gear, earn high streetrank  

 But as I grew my whole crew fell thru  

 Cops had us on the books as innerstate crooks  

 Murder robbery rape escape, the whole damn nine  

 You robbed a nigga blind  

 I had too much juice, I cut my boosters loose  

 I was intread with the pimpgame  

 Took on the ice-name  

 But the pimpgame moved too slow  

 Especially for a nigga who was hooked on quick dough  

 In one nite late I was in a carwreck  

 And I was lucky to escape  

 Hospital for teen weeks, in bed almost dead  

 And when I got well, I got gaught in a cross  

 And got locked in a jailcell  

 That's how I'm livin'...  

  

 They cutted me loose  

 And I had to change troops  

 This time they didn't catch me  

 Next time they'll strecth me  

 Cause my time was gettin' short  

 All my homies was in court  

 Or locked in a hole, this shit was gettin' old  

 So I changed my life  

 Putted down the gun and picked up the mic  

 It took ten years to get from there to here  

 But I still keep a gun, cops got me on the run  

 And they hate me more now  

 Than they ever did before  

 My homies came back from pen  

 And we all worked together  

 True friends but every once and while  

 Some punk mistakes me as a junk  

 And he gets in my face  

 Wrong mothafuckin' place  

 And I aint lyin', that's how you dyin