The Way It Is - Giggs

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 tv’s

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 stuffs

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 suttin

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 tune

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 I’ma make it so I’ma patient for change

I remember standing in the shop, waiting for change, as a youth man,

grabbin' a quick cherry ace

Thinking to myself I won’t be a government slave

I’ma be something one day and nothing has changed

This ain’t 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 governer’s name, and then the governer calls me my

government name

Is this the message that they want for the youths of today, stop being a real

gangsta that’s trying to change

I threw a BET party, they locked up the rave, it never even started,

there was feds at the gate, the 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, they hate 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.