Sometimes It's Got To Be That Way - Schoolly D

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

Sittin in my room smokin cheeba

And then I heard the beep of my beeper

Callin back, «Yo brother, what you need?»

Ounce of lleyo and a forty and weed

Got in my ride for the drop-off

But when I got there it was nothin but a knock-off

He said, «Yo, I’m gonna make it clear and simple»

And then he put a Uzi to my temple

«Damn right Schoolly-School, it’s a set-up

And if you’re smart you just shut up

Give me all your gold and your cash

So a brother like me’ll make a dash

Like a bullet from a A.K.

Sometime it got to be that way»

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

Yo brotherman, I was fakin

Who the hell do they think that they’re gankin?

Always tryin to tell a brother how to live

But reality they don’t really give (don't give a damn)

How to hell you gon' tell me what to do?

When I’m livin in the ghetto in the zoo

Cause to you I ain’t nothin but a nigga

And to me you ain’t nothin but a sucker and a gold-digger

Like a bullet from a A.K.

Sometime it got to be that way

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

Yo homes, this is what I figure

In order for us to get bigger

Sometime we got to pull on the trigger

Sit back and take a little swigger

Of Miller, smoke a little killer

For a brother on the street it’s notin but a thriller

All this, you’re talkin all that

But you still sell a brother a cat

You didn’t know it was the 911

Now they got another brother on the run

Like a bullet from a A.K.

Sometime it got to be that way

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

My destination I crusade, don’t question what I’m doin

To keep the brothers hype and leave the suckers boo-hooin

To sway away the sayers that’s frontin on what I’m sayin

Or trippin, even flippin and knowin I ain’t playin

And playin, yeah buddy, that’s the word

Describin all the games bein played in the rock world

I would like to do it, liked to tell you, my man

But we’re in America, I might get banned

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

It got to be that way

Sometime it got to be that way

(Bass)