[ilingku:107]
[ver:v1.0]
[ti:Back 2 The Way It Was]
[ar:Xzibit]
[al:Weapons of Mass Destruction]
[by:]
[offset:0]
[00:00.000]Back 2 The Way It Was (Xplicit Album Version) - Xzibit
[00:06.180]Yeah yo c'mon
[00:14.740]Ride wit me lemme take you somewhere
[00:18.600][Xzibit]
[00:19.100]My father was a soldier my mother was a rider
[00:21.470]I was born wit my fists balled up I'ma fighter
[00:24.470]Inspired a real rhyme writer
[00:27.210]Get past the past the future looks brighter
[00:29.840]But I wanna get it back to the way it was
[00:33.140]Exchange blows elbows and it was still love
[00:35.890]A better time better place in space
[00:38.080]Cause nothin can erase shame tat' like my ni**a Chase
[00:41.380]Cause Bigga B will never be replaced right
[00:44.320]And I'ma scream it to the whole f**kin human race
[00:46.440]Get a bar get a taste
[00:48.450]Enforce the muscle to ya hustle and ya did it with grace
[00:51.880]Cause real niggaz don't save face they make movements
[00:55.180]Back to the time when hip-hop was music
[00:57.800]When N W A got booed at the Apollo
[01:00.860]Broke"Straight Outta Compton" and the whole world followed
[01:04.150]Cause right now hip-hop is hollow
[01:06.340]With no substance X-Man with the roughness
[01:09.080]Cause success can suck sometime
[01:11.130]And many of us the way we act we even lost our minds
[01:14.670]You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face
[01:18.470]But you can never ever take my place
[01:20.650]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[01:22.770]Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)
[01:25.890]You can speculate on every breath I take
[01:29.590]But you can never ever take my place
[01:31.720]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[01:33.710]Through the struggle I will live on
[01:36.080][Xzibit]
[01:37.520]Back to the day when +Cooley+ was +High+
[01:39.670]Hustle big like Butch in the Y-B-I
[01:41.980]We did it 'n died the gang still multiplied
[01:44.790]Sock yo windpipe cut yo air supply
[01:47.650]Hypnotized not by the glitz 'n glamour
[01:50.370]So f**k them cameras all I need is clips and hammers
[01:53.480]The X-Man said that the first rhyme out
[01:56.100]Were my fans worth my time The first line out so
[01:59.160]Here we are eight years strong and still movin
[02:01.840]Groovin with a reputation ya can't ruin
[02:04.840]I wanna take it back how it used to be
[02:07.780]Five thousand f**ked up rockin outta unity
[02:10.390]You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face
[02:14.210]But you can never ever take my place
[02:16.330]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[02:18.260]Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)
[02:21.580]You can speculate on every breath I take
[02:24.630]But you can never ever take my place
[02:27.320]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[02:29.440]Through the struggle I will live on
[02:31.430][Xzibit]
[02:32.240]Was it the alcohol in you the money the power the fame
[02:35.120]That made you actually attempt to try to disgrace my name
[02:37.860]Played those games ni**a when I was younger in life
[02:40.480]'Til I seen another man's life cut short with a knife
[02:43.220]Lose teeth cause beef no peace with us
[02:46.000]Ya can't hang and ya sho' can't eat with us
[02:48.860]When times get tough the tough get rough and drastic
[02:51.740]Never been blasted never been an arrogant bastard
[02:54.540]But I coulda been a lawyer I shoulda been a doctor
[02:57.530]I never been a actor I'm nothin but a monster
[03:00.400]I move in silence speak with violence
[03:02.900]Think with science live free and walk with lions
[03:05.770]Cats around me with gats like Yasser Arafat
[03:08.960]It takes a nation of millions to hold me back
[03:11.140]Pounds of cush to push what I'm talkin about
[03:13.880]It's hard to talk the talk with a gauge in yo mouth
[03:16.760]It's hard to walk the walk with ya back blew out
[03:19.500]Don't let the things that you can't change stress you out
[03:22.310]Cause X take the money and run and raise a man from a son
[03:25.930]And change the world with the power of one c'mon
[03:28.290]You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face
[03:31.900]But you can never ever take my place
[03:34.020]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[03:36.200]Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)
[03:39.640]You can speculate on every breath I take
[03:43.130]But you can never ever take my place
[03:45.180]I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong
[03:47.360]Through the struggle I will live on