Back 2 The Way It Was Lyrics - Weapons Of Mass Destruction - Xzibit

Yeah, yo, c'mon 

Ride wit me, lemme take you somewhere 

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 

You can hold your breath, 'til you're 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 

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 

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 wind pipe, cut yo air supply 

Hypnotized, not by the glitz n' glamor 

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 

You can hold your breath, 'til you're 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 

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 

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 

You can hold your breath, 'til you're 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 

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