[Intro: Nawfside Outlaw]
Started
Aaaaaah
[Chorus: Nawfside Outlaw]
It's so plain to see
How it used to be
When we started (Used to be)
Back then back then
So why you actin' brand new (Why you actin' brand new)
They quick to test you
How it used to be
When we started
How it used to be when we started yeah
[Verse 1: Spice]
Back in the day, when niggas was keepin' the shit one thousand
If he was snitchin' the niggas would hit him up, wasn't no discussion about it
If he was gon' be up in that trap gettin' money bring the thumper with ya
Gotta protect the block with no hesitation to pull the trigga (Blaow!)
Gotta remember when them alphabet boys hit
It was simple, spin up the tempo, don't flush shit down the toilet
Don't wanna fuck off the plug, better get away or it's murda, murda
Get hit with .50 Cal, or some shit that you never heard of
Got a bird around the corner, try to fly it out of town
Don't wanna drive it, even though my baby mama say she down
In a clutch, in the trenches, mothafuckas actin' brand new
Niggas be knowin' you be on that boss shit but they really can't stand you (Blaow!)
Me and my niggas, we be rollin' up out of the cut
Everybody know we gotta have each other's back bustin' no matter what
It was so plain to see, how it used be but-a-back in the day
Niggas was trippin' used to be ro-uh-rollin' 'round with the K (Blaow!)
[Chorus: Nawfside Outlaw]
It's so plain to see (It's so plain to see)
How it used to be
When we started (How it used to be)
Back then back then
So why you actin' brand new (Why you actin' brand new)
They quick to test you
How it used to be
When we started
How it used to be when we started, yeah
[Verse 2: SoSanAntone]
Sosa
You know the story how it goes (goes), you heard the stories out befo'
Mama worried at the home, huh, daddy nowhere to be found, huh
Got everything from the ground, huh, I was hittin' from the mound, huh
Remember jumpin' off the porch, huh, they was nowhere to be found ,huh
A lot of shit ain't how it used to, huh, they got the rules turned around
The G codes all bended, heh, no G tone in the sound, huh
I came up a lil' bit different, close your mouth, just listen
Simply mind your own business, huh, well respected in your town, huh
I was taught by the O.G.'s, real talk, real O.G.'s
Big bros, big homies, kinfolks, ten toes deep
We really live what we do, huh, what we doin' just to live
We don't do it for the gram, huh, but we started by the gram, huh
We don't even need a cam, huh, the shit don't even mean a damn, huh
I guess it is what it is, huh, I guess I am who I am, huh
Remember stickin' to the script, uh, remember stickin to the plan, huh
Nowadays a nigga snitch, huh, and rather stick it to his man, huh
I don't even understand, huh
[Chorus: Nawfside Outlaw]
It's so plain to see (It's so plain to see)
How it used to be
When we started (How it used to be)
Back then back then
So why you actin' brand new (Why you actin' brand new)
They quick to test you
How it used to be
When we started
How it used to be when we started yeah(Lookin' up)
(Hey)
[Verse 3: Lil' Yodaa]
I gotta emphasize it when I'm talkin' to 'em I was on it like fifteen
With a big dream, tryna be in two places at one time like a split screen
Yeah, it was so plain to see, how everything came to be
Back then ain't nobody really wanna hang with me
Until a nigga started slangin' weed, you know
I don't rap just to say I can, I just do what I can do the best
You wonder why they callin' me the worst
You wanna be a rapper don't be scared to invest
In the game when there ain't no ref, it's everybody for them self
Unless you're gonna make a move, you're gonna collect the dust on the shelf
Just keep it up above the [?] I done took so many low blows
That which is life in general, a criminal duckin' and dodgin' the po-pos
Slowmo is how it felt when I was in the fast lane
I was feelin' less of a nigga, tryna get more like my last name past tense
Nigga bout the future, waste time, tell her no thanks, propane flow
With a coke tank make 'em pass the weight but I'm no [?], got 'em tryin' to ride my wave now
But every time I try to talk to 'em they be lookin' at me with
Their face down
I guess their mad 'cause I've been comin' up
And there ain't really nothin' much for them to say now
Well hey now
[Chorus: Nawfside Outlaw]
It's so plain to see (It's so plain to see)
How it used to be
When we started (How it used to be)
Back then back then
So why you actin' brand new (Why you actin' brand new)
They quick to test you
How it used to be
When we started
How it used to be when we started yeah
[Outro: Nawfside Outlaw]
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