[00:00:00] Back 2 The Way It Was (Xplicit Album Version) - Xzibit [00:00:06] Yeah yo c'mon [00:00:14] Ride wit me lemme take you somewhere [00:00:18] [Xzibit [00:00:19] My father was a soldier my mother was a rider [00:00:21] I was born wit my fists balled up I'ma fighter [00:00:24] Inspired a real rhyme writer [00:00:27] Get past the past the future looks brighter [00:00:29] But I wanna get it back to the way it was [00:00:33] Exchange blows elbows and it was still love [00:00:35] A better time better place in space [00:00:38] Cause nothin can erase shame tat' like my ni**a Chase [00:00:41] Cause Bigga B will never be replaced right [00:00:44] And I'ma scream it to the whole f**kin human race [00:00:46] Get a bar get a taste [00:00:48] Enforce the muscle to ya hustle and ya did it with grace [00:00:51] Cause real niggaz don't save face they make movements [00:00:55] Back to the time when hip-hop was music [00:00:57] When N W A got booed at the Apollo [00:01:00] Broke "Straight Outta Compton" and the whole world followed [00:01:04] Cause right now hip-hop is hollow [00:01:06] With no substance X-Man with the roughness [00:01:09] Cause success can suck sometime [00:01:11] And many of us the way we act we even lost our minds [00:01:14] You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face [00:01:18] But you can never ever take my place [00:01:20] I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong [00:01:22] Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me) [00:01:25] You can speculate on every breath I take [00:01:29] But you can never ever take my place [00:01:31] I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong [00:01:33] Through the struggle I will live on [00:01:36] [Xzibit [00:01:37] Back to the day when +Cooley+ was +High+ [00:01:39] Hustle big like Butch in the Y-B-I [00:01:41] We did it 'n died the gang still multiplied [00:01:44] Sock yo windpipe cut yo air supply [00:01:47] Hypnotized not by the glitz 'n glamour [00:01:50] So f**k them cameras all I need is clips and hammers [00:01:53] The X-Man said that the first rhyme out [00:01:56] Were my fans worth my time The first line out so [00:01:59] Here we are eight years strong and still movin [00:02:01] Groovin with a reputation ya can't ruin [00:02:04] I wanna take it back how it used to be [00:02:07] Five thousand f**ked up rockin outta unity [00:02:10] You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face [00:02:14] But you can never ever take my place [00:02:16] I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong [00:02:18] Through the struggle I will live on (now sing the song wit me) [00:02:21] You can speculate on every breath I take [00:02:24] But you can never ever take my place [00:02:27] I stay strong whether right or I'm wrong [00:02:29] Through the struggle I will live on [00:02:31] [Xzibit [00:02:32] Was it the alcohol in you the money the power the fame [00:02:35] That made you actually attempt to try to disgrace my name [00:02:37] Played those games ni**a when I was younger in life [00:02:40] 'Til I seen another man's life cut short with a knife [00:02:43] Lose teeth cause beef no peace with us [00:02:46] Ya can't hang and ya sho' can't eat with us [00:02:48] When times get tough the tough get rough and drastic [00:02:51] Never been blasted never been an arrogant bastard [00:02:54] But I coulda been a lawyer I shoulda been a doctor [00:02:57] I never been a actor I'm nothin but a monster [00:03:00] I move in silence speak with violence [00:03:02] Think with science live free and walk with lions [00:03:05] Cats around me with gats like Yasser Arafat [00:03:08] It takes a nation of millions to hold me back [00:03:11] Pounds of cush to push what I'm talkin about [00:03:13] It's hard to talk the talk with a gauge in yo mouth [00:03:16] It's hard to walk the walk with ya back blew out [00:03:19] Don't let the things that you can't change stress you out [00:03:22] Cause X take the money and run and raise a man from a son [00:03:25] And change the world with the power of one c'mon [00:03:28] You can hold your breath 'til your blue in the face