Yeah.. yo.. c`mon
Ride wit me, lemme take you somewhere
[Xzibit]
My father was a soldier, my mother was a rider
I was born wit my fists balled up, I`ma fighter
Inspired, a real rhyme writer
Get past the past the future looks brighter
But, I wanna get it back to the way it was
Exchange blows, elbows and it was still love
A better time, better place in space
Cause nothin can erase, shame tat` like my nigga Chase
Cause Bigga B will never be replaced, right
And I`ma scream it to the whole fuckin human race
Get a bar, get a taste
Enforce the muscle to ya hustle and ya did it with grace
Cause real niggaz don`t save face, they make movements
Back to the time when hip-hop was music
When N.W.A. got booed at the Apollo
Broke Straight Outta Compton and the whole world followed
Cause right now hip-hop is hollow
With no substance, X-Man with the roughness
Cause success can suck sometime
And many of us the way we act, we even lost our minds
[Chorus]
You can hold your breath, `til your blue in the face
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me)
You can speculate, on every breath I take
But you can never ever take my place
I stay strong whether right or I`m wrong
Through the struggle I will live on
[Xzibit]
Back to the day when +Cooley+ was +High+
Hustle big like Butch in the Y-B-I
We did it `n died, the gang still multiplied
Sock yo windpipe, cut yo air supply
Hypnotized, not by the glitz `n glamour
So fuck them cameras, all I need is clips and hammers
The X-Man said that the first rhyme out
Were my fans worth my time? The first line out, so
Here we are eight years strong and still movin
Groovin with a reputation ya can`t ruin
I wanna take it back how it used to be
Five thousand fucked up, rockin outta unity
[Chorus]
[Xzibit]
Was it the alcohol in you, the money the power the fame
that made you actually attempt to try to disgrace my name?
Played those games nigga when I was younger in life
`Til I seen another man`s life cut short with a knife
Lose teeth, cause beef, no peace with us
Ya can`t hang, and ya sho` can`t eat with us
When times get tough, the tough get rough and drastic
Never been blasted, never been an arrogant bastard
But I coulda been a lawyer, I shoulda been a doctor
I never been a actor, I`m nothin but a monster
I move in silence, speak with violence
Think with science, live free and walk with lions
Cats around me with gats like Yasser Arafat
It takes a nation of millions to hold me back
Pounds of cush to push what I`m talkin about
It`s hard to talk the talk with a gauge in yo mouth
It`s hard to walk the walk with ya back blew out
Don`t let the things that you can`t change stress you out
Cause X take the money and run, and raise a man from a son
And change the world with the power of one c`mon
[Chorus]
