Fat Joe, R. Kelly - How Did We Get Here lyrics

Yo, it was all a dream
Couldn't save BIG and Pac
Right in broad day watch
The fiends bodies drop
And at night you gotta turn your TV volume up
'Cause the cop sirens blast up
And down my block
Shit ain't been the same is what
You hear on my block
Bunch of old school gangstas telling
Tales on my block
Came home tatted tears in a plan to get paid
You put it in a pot said a prayer and it came
What can make you smile'll be the
Thing to bring you pain
Is what my daddy told my momma
Going through her labor pains
Is what my momma told me as
The cops took me away
Eazy-E said "fuck 'em"
Yeah I feel the same way
Another dead body is just another homicide
But niggas trying to kill us
Why we call it Darkside
The streets is, ruthless
Even sold to my own blood
No love, just a youngin' trying to blow up

So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here?
From the middle of no where
Came up out these streets we made it, yeah
So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here? From the middle of no
Where, somebody tell me, how?

Me and my niggas taking pictures
Trying to freeze time
Jus' some lil' niggas doing
Shit we can't rewind know what I'm saying?
Shit is real, fuck what y'all thought
Too many niggas getting killed
On the ball court
They was chasing hoop dreams and
I was busting sawed offs
And if your jewels gleamed
I would take 'em all off
Extend my organization
The crib swarming with agents
Moms crying, we pacing like lions in cages
Mob giants turned into some
Clients with cases
Some niggas made statements
Some niggas made the papers, damn
What part of the game is that?
I mean to hustle all my life
But I do love rap
They got my knees straighten
Put the battery in my back
This is around the same
Time Calderon got clapped
He told me put my life in music, "Joey
Broaden your dreams
You can do it, look at Finesse
It ain't as hard as it seems"

So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here?
From the middle of no where
Came up out these streets we made it, yeah
So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here? From the middle of no
Where, somebody tell me, how?

Ain't this nice I'm bigger than life
In a Jacuzzi smoking a Cohiba
But this ain't a movie
Before I wasn't attractive now I
Pack the house with groupies
Rubbing shoulders with actors just imagine
How would you be
Rocking the latest fashion, this is Juicy
All over again
2010, it's like BIG is living through me
Chance from crack to rap
Now the paper's greater
Trying to see me on that block
I'll see you haters later
I'm so high, I defy gravity
Nigga fuck a star, i'm a galaxy
So out of space they can't grab at me
Feds ain't nabbing me, I'm all legit
My bankroll much thicker blame it
All on the hit's
I started off with bricks, now I own offices
Who would have thought I got
All this from talking slick
Yeah, we went from day-breakers to tax payers
It was once all a dream
Now the labels pay us

So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here?
From the middle of no where
Came up out these streets we made it, yeah
So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here? From the middle of no
Where, somebody tell me, how?

I was supposed to be dead
I was in them streets real bad (real bad)
Dreams of houses in the hills
I was hustling just to make it real
But now I came up and I'm number one
Y'all know the story, mo' money mo' problems
In these streets live or die, and I lived
I don't know why

So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here?
From the middle of no where
Came up out these streets we made it, yeah
So tell me how did we, how did we
How did we get here? From the middle of no
Where, somebody tell me, how?