Giggs - The Way It Is lyrics

Let me take you back to the beginning
And explain to them exactly
How I’ve been living
All the tragedies that I've been given
But nothing stop me from grabbing
Hold of my vision i've never had it easy
I’m talking bout the days when
We had hangers on our TVs
When I never hide it to be greedy
I remember when I used to run
And skank it on the P3
I'm talking bout the P3 bus
Nothing in the bread bin
So niggas eating crust
Way before these beefing stuff
When niggas biggest problem was beating sluts
But now niggas hustle from 11
And then they're like, fuck girls
I'm grabbing hold of a weapon
And then they're like fuck school
I ain't catching none of them lessons
And I'm just thinking
What’s happening in my presence

I'm just telling them the way it is
I'm just telling them the way I live
Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
I'm just telling them the way it is
I'm just telling them the way I live
Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is

I never asked nobody for nothing
No one ain't helped me except
My soldiers with the suttins
That's why I do anything I have to
I made the last straw
Cause all the pain I put my back through
And the radio weren't laying
Down my rap tunes called me criminal
"we ain’t paying all them rap goons"
Now you gotta understand where
I'm coming from
Greasy hood nigga I was laying
Down the facts through what I do best
Should I have gone and got a strap too?
The only thing I know, no
I laid it on a rap tune
Cause, I’m tryna change
They were forcing me to rap rude
You grew up 'round here you might
Be rollin' with a strap too
Excuse me if I offended anyone
Through the pain in my heart
It’s the struggle that I've come through
I never thought shit would get
Crazy over one tune8

I'm just telling them the way it is
I'm just telling them the way I live
Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is
I'm just telling them the way it is
I'm just telling them the way I live
Hollowman, tell them bout the way it is
It's exactly how I say it is

Before I be faded away
Still runnin' up the steps
And I'm pacing away
Still ain't made it to the top
But I'm paving a way
I know that imma make it
So I'm patient for change
I remember standing in the shop
Waiting for change
As a yout man, grabbin' a quick cherryade
Thinking to myself I won't
Be a government slave
Imma be something one day
And nothing ain't changed
The deep shit that I rap
Could you stomach the pain?
Or better yet, could you stomach the game?
I did my sentence why should
I be punished again?
Sometimes I feel like I ain't
Got nothing to gain
They want me say fuck rap
Back to flooding the caine
And getting wrapped up and stay
In that government place
They want me in the box
Callin' the governor's name
And then the governor calls
Me my government name
Is this the message that they want
For the youts of today
Stop being a real gangsta
That's trying to change
I threw a BET party, they locked off the rave
It never even started
There was feds at the gate
The e amount of times I've told
Buck I'm forgetting the game
And he says lowe it Giggs
You know you're just set in your ways
But at the same time you know
That you're settin' the way
If you forget about this
You're forgetting the pain the feds hate me
The're pissed that I'm slippin' away
I was just about to sign I was seconds away
They rang the record label up
And they flippin' complained
There they go again
Are they flippin' insane?
I thought that it was crazy when
They banned me from Wayne
They nicked my little brother Spen when
He stopped off the plane