The Way Life Used to Be
Snoop Dogg
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Hey battle cat It's your dog, bitch Snoopy D-O, double G Aka, I was thinking we need to take it back To the way it used to be You feel me, yeah Come on, yeah, drift with me Drift with me, come on Drift with me y'all Take it back to the afros and the naturals Kate cut it pits we slips into the backbones Oh G my nigga, for real don't straight up on the east side Top of the hill yeah, I'm looking at the over view take it bow 86, damn I look overdue, walking in the hood, making mix tapes Tryin' to walk about the hood while I'm chalking up the hood Nigga talk about the hood, that I came from it braves me That's real Crip crazy, what up oopsie, daisy Demon or a heathen, speedin' while I'm dreamin' Screamin' micky deedin', seein' is believin' And don't you forget that, get it to you get back Hit that, kick back, three flies one away Reminiscin' 'bout the things that my grandmama used to say Stay in your own lane, stay on your own and quick tryin' to be grown Day turn to night and play turn the fight (It's all right) gee, I guess my granny was right (Reflections of the way life used to be, It's all right) I like the girls from the darin' heights or the girls on heels I take a trip up to world on wheels and get in a fight Make it back to my bride, pop shots That's some fuckers disrespectin' the side My big homie, my hustle, schoolyard bozo slid me the way Just to get me the way I'm a long beach nigga outside of my hood I'm banging, right but doin' it good And when I get locked down ain't no hidin' and wonderin' As soon as I hit the county, I'm mockin' forty-eight hundred Put the dillers, the killers, the rillas, the beasts, The best from the west and the beast from the east Yeah, I'm actin' a fool, I'm gettin' my degree from gladiator school I chose this life 'cause I knows this life Sell a little crack and my flows is tight I'm playin' my choice and what's cold is I can still here my grandma's voice She say, "Day turn to night and play turn the fight" (It's all right) shit, I guess my granny was right (Reflections of the way life used to be, It's all right) If you get caught and you don't walk 'cause you don't talk And these was the rules, squeeze on as fools I came up in a different era homie Where the Gs hit the Gs and the little wannabes, really homie Wanna be like 'cause they see like, make you wanna G like Now who you wanna be like (Snoop) That fool on the TV screen or the homie on the Corner getting major cream In a Cadillac beatin' like battle cat A nigga with money who don't know how to act Smoke to your eyes get cataracts All money not six yeah none of that hold a sec, run it back Hold it back, rock him up, bag him up, fight him back If the trick ruckers rat, do you want your money back? Know this was a money rat, watch for the funny act 'Cause this don't come And my granny said, "It's no fun" She say, "Day turn to night and play turn the fight" (It's all right) gee, I guess my granny was right (Reflections of the way life used to be, It's all right)
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Written by: BRIAN HOLLAND, CALVIN BROADUS, DENZIL FOSTER, EDWARD, JR. HOLLAND, JAY A KING, LAMONT DOZIER, LUTHER VANDROSS, MARCUS MILLER, SAM COOKE, THOMAS MCELROY
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