[Ras Kass]
   I been around the world once, had your fiancé twice
   I ain't nothin' nice, but every lifestyle got a price
   Kiss my momma on the cheek cause her love was deep
   Like Keith Sweat, but the deeper the streets get
   The deeper the beef get
   Enough fatal attraction to ??? your vet
   Cause everybody wanna have it ??? and sh
   Now, ??? is my ??? over night, insight
   I write like six hundred thousand kilobytes
   Yes I'm on one, European cars, Cuban cigars, rap stars,
   Glass ceilings to the inevitable cap dealing for sexual healing
   I lack feeling, voted for black women like Terry Macmillan
   Save a prayer for me, I was told no guts no glory
   I shed a tear once in a while, too
   But a soldier gots to do what he gots to do
   I once ??? in ??? for Rupert Murdoch, I thought you knew
   It is what it is
  
   Hook:
   [Jazze Pha] Nowadays, that's the way it is
   [Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we must, that's
   how it is, and how it is is kinda fucked up
   [Jazze Pha] It's sad to say, but things just ain't the same no more
   [Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we lust, it is
   what it is, and how it is is kinda fucked up
  
   [Ras Kass]
   If the pussy is free, then talk is cheap
   Then again, it's probably cheaper to keep her
   Back in the days, all a nigga needed was suede pumas and a beeper
   Now they all expecting condos, briquettes and pet cheetahs
   See ya when I see ya
   And by then I know the motors she bogus I noticed they jockin the rims on
   the ???
   I learned early to trust God when moms was like [you wear all that Nike shit]
   You need to swoosh your ass and get a job
   My occupation be operation, more horsepower than Daytona
   Cause I'm a rider, like Wynonna
   Being nice is a vice, the gift is naturally mine
   That's like grand verbalizing not knowin the time
   See, my partners commit crimes servin federal ???
   Confined to a six by nine regretin the wrong shit he did
   I swig, wishing we was still little kids
   But we grown men now homey, it is what it is
  
   Hook
  
   [Ras Kass]
   Hip hop ain't even fun
   In these strange days, rappers is getting done
   Like Jericho won
   Within two months, two major artists got slumped
   I whispered 'God rest the dead' and let the ??? pump pump
   Kept a ??? since about eleventh grade
   Rock the Donna Carren shades
   Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid
   But I'm afraid I do
   Trying to organize a team, willing to empty magazines
   This supreme fiends for cream
   We need g's, like Mary Magdelline and born again Christians
   Ain't a politician cause I already got your vote
   True, I want your money but I ain't a preacher no
   I don't even love the dough
   But if you don't work you don't eat, so I want all I can get before I go
   I love what money can get
   It's elementary evidently, the custom convertible Bentley tently
   It is what it is
  
   Hook x2
  
   [Jazze Pha]
   There are things that we can change
   Some things remain the same
   That's just the way it is
   Way it goes, yeah
   There are things that we can change
   But most things gon' stay the same
   It's the way it is
   You better believe it, ooh yeah