(feat. Jazze Pha)

[Ras Kass]

I been around the world once, had your fiancé twice
I ain't nothin' nice, but every lifestyle got a price
Kiss my momma on the cheek cause her love was deep

Like Keith Sweat, but the deeper the streets get
The deeper the beef get
Enough Fatal Attraction to boil your pet

Cause everybody wanna have it lavish and sh
Now, courvoisier is my dossier overnight, insight
I write like six hundred thousand kilobytes

Yes I'm on one, European cars, Cuban cigars, rap stars
Glass ceilings to the inevitable cap peeling for sexual healing
I lack feeling, voted for black women like Terry Macmillan

Save a prayer for me, I was told no guts no glory
I shed a tear once in a while, too
But a soldier gots to do what he gots to do

I want stock in Fox with Rupert Murdoch, I thought you knew
It is what it is


[Hook:]
[Jazze Pha] Nowadays, that's the way it is
[Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we must, that's

how it is, and how it is is kinda $#&@ed up
[Jazze Pha] It's sad to say, but things just ain't the same no more
[Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we lust, it is

what it is, and how it is is kinda $#&@ed up

[Ras Kass]

If the #~!!@ is free, then talk is cheap
Then again, it's probably cheaper to keep her
Back in the days, all a ^!$$% needed was suede pumas and a beeper

Now they all expecting condos, briquettes and pet cheetahs
See ya when I see ya
And by then I know the motives, she bogus

I noticed her jocking the rims on the Lotus
I learned early to trust God when moms was like
[you wear all that Nike %#@!]

You need to swoosh your $$# and get a job
My occupation be operation, more horsepower than Daytona
Cause I'm a Rider, like Winona

Being nice is a vice, the gift is naturally mine
That's like +Grand Verbalizer+ not knowing the time
See, my partners commit crimes serving federal bids

Confined to a six by nine regrettin the wrong %#@! he did
I swear, wishing we was still little kids
But we grown men now homey, it is what it is


[Hook]


[Ras Kass]
Hip hop ain't even fun
In these strange days, rappers is getting done

Like Jericho won
Within two months, two major artists got slumped
I whispered God rest the dead and let the Blaupunkt pump

Kept a part and a fade since about eleventh grade
Rock the Donna Karan shades
Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid

But I'm afraid I do
Trying to organize a team, willing to empty magazines
This supreme fiends for cream

We need Jesus like Mary Magdalene and Born Again Christians
Ain't a politician cause I already got your vote
True, I want your money but I ain't a preacher no

I don't even love the dough
But if you don't work you don't eat,
so I want all I can get before I go

I love what money can get
It's elementary evidently, the custom convertible Bentley tempt me
It is what it is


[Hook x2]


[Jazze Pha]
There are things that we can change
Some things remain the same
That's just the way it is
Way it goes, yeah

There are things that we can change
But most things gon' stay the same
It's the way it is
You better believe it, ooh yeah