You're thuggin' and you love the streets Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat and niggaz hatin' And you ain't stop to think about niggaz runnin' their mouth Niggaz cessed you out, that's how it goes down What happened to the days When we could hug a block, flippin' rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball We had it all and we took a fall I came up in Cokeland, better known as OaklandYour weed could sell, are you smokin'? Eighteen with a big MercedesSellin' dope in the mid-eighties, homie talkin' 'bout I'm about to win Now when you gon' let 'em all out the pen You sold crack to hell and back Whoever would have thought you could fail at that Bein' broke ain't never been cool And it ain't no hope when you're failing in school You might as well flip the sac, roll out of town And take a trip with that or you could just hit the block Stayin' on the corner, come and get the rocks Bein' out on the streets as a young teen wasn't always a fun thing You're thuggin' and you love the streets Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat and niggaz hatin' And you ain't stop to think about niggaz runnin' their mouth Niggaz snitched you out, that's how it goes down What happened to the days When we could hug a block, flippin' rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball We had it all and we took a fall, that's how it goes down Dope fiend still get high, while dope dealers barely get by You better get your life right You wanna live in the 'burbs with your white wife, do your own thing I know you won't change and I can't play you wrong man I'm laced with that long game, it's just not a lot of choices man You ain't plannin' to go to jail with the poison clan So you could be another number in the system, stuck for years Got a brother in the pen fucked up All the stashes you know you kept and everything that the police left It's too late when you notice it, it's all gone Motherfuckers done stole your shit, you wanna kill 'em And you still do but realize real killas get killed too, oh You're thuggin' and you love the streets Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat and niggaz hatin' And you ain't stop to think about niggaz runnin' their mouth Niggaz snitched you out, that's how it goes down What happened to the days When we could hug a block, flippin' rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball We had it all and we took a fall, that's how it goes down He's disappeared into thin air, he's nowhere When the last time he been here, we don't care' Cause he don't come around no mo' Nigga live with his momma, down in BroughHe's just tryin' to survive I guess it's all right 'cause at least he's alive' Cause nowadays a lil' kid might shoot you down Life's wild in the town, young fools like to clown He did the same thing, fall for the lies Hold your head up high and swallowed the pride Caught in a trap but don't know what you in Had a million, now you ain't got two cents You can't say nothin', now what I don't hear you talkin' all that loud stuff If you live and you die by the game and you lose At least you did spend your life tryin' to change You're thuggin' and you love the streets Huggin' the block, sellin' rocks, gettin' major heat and niggaz hatin' And you ain't stop to think about niggaz runnin' their mouth Niggaz snitched you out, that's how it goes down What happened to the days When we could hug a block, flippin' rocks and just get money I remember when you and me used to ball We had it all and we took a fall, that's how it goes down That's how it goes down That's how it goes down That's how it goes down Oh I remember when we had it all And I remember when we used to ball, we used to ball I remember, don't you remember? When we had it all, we used to ball That's how it goes down That's how it goes down That's how it goes down