[ti:How Did We Get Here] [ar:Fat Joe] [al:] [00:02.60]Fat Joe feat. R. Kelly - How Did We Get Here [00:03.83] [00:05.66]MaxRNB - The Freshest & Hottest R/ Hip-Hop Music! [00:08.39] [00:09.89]Yo [00:10.62]It was all a dream, couldnt save Big and Pac [00:13.48]Right in broad day watch the fiends bodies drop [00:16.18]And at night you gotta turn your TV volume up [00:18.73]Cuz the cop sirens blast up and down my block [00:21.67]Shit aint been the same is what you hear on my block [00:23.99]Bunch of old school gangstas telling tales on my block [00:27.03]Came home tatted tears in a plan to get paid [00:29.65]Put it in a box said a prayer and it came [00:32.38]What can make you smile and be the thing to bring you pain [00:34.82]Is what my daddy told my momma going through her labor pains [00:37.74]Is what my momma told me as the cops took me away [00:40.26]Eazy-E said "fuck'em", ya i feel the same way [00:43.27]Another dead body, its another homicide [00:45.78]But n*ggas tryna kill us that why we call this, dark side [00:48.71]The streets is, ruthless even sold to my own blood [00:52.38]No love just a youngin tryna blow up. [00:53.41] [03:47.56][03:04.29][01:59.29][00:54.46]So tell me how did we, how did we [03:49.21][03:05.93][02:00.98][00:56.08]How did we get here [03:51.60][03:08.27][02:03.41][00:58.44]From the middle of no where [03:55.39][03:12.05][02:07.13][01:02.28]From up out these streets we made it ya [03:58.23][03:15.03][02:10.01][01:05.22]So tell me how did we, how did we [04:00.05][03:16.83][02:11.83][01:07.00]How did we get here [04:02.44][03:19.20][02:14.24][01:09.36]From the middle of no where ya [04:06.69][03:23.45][02:18.45][01:13.44]Somebody tell me, how? [04:09.78][03:25.03][02:20.70][01:15.19] [01:16.11]Me and my *ggaz takin pictures how i freeze time [01:18.89]Lil n*ggaz doin shit we cant rewind, know what im sayin? [01:22.44]Shit is real fuck what yall thought, [01:24.06]Too many n*ggaz gettin killed on the ball court [01:26.68]They was chasing hoop dreams and we was busting sawed offs [01:29.28]And if your shoes gleamed, i would take them all off [01:32.13]Extend my organization the crib swarming with agents [01:35.34]Moms cryin, we based it like lions in cages [01:37.89]Mob giants turn it some clients with cases [01:40.48] [01:44.13]What part of the game is that [01:45.85]I mean to hustle all my life but i do love rap [01:48.57]They got my knees straighted put the battery to my back, [01:51.51]This is around the same time Calderon got clapped [01:54.22]He told me put my life in music, "Joey go for your dreams" [01:56.81]You can do it look at Finesse it aint as hard as it seems [01:58.57] [02:21.74]Aint this nice im bigger than life [02:23.64]In a jacuzzi smoking a Cohiba but this aint a movie [02:26.49]Before i wasn't attractive now i pack the house with groupies [02:29.30]Rubbing shoulders with actors just imagine how would you be [02:32.09]Rocking the latest fashion this is Juicy, all over again [02:35.18]2010 its like Biggies living through me [02:37.40]Chance has changed my route and now the papers greater [02:39.90]Tryna see me on that block i'll see you haters later [02:42.52]So high, defy gravity n*igga fuck ya style imma galaxy [02:46.31]So out of space they cant grab at me, feds aint having me [02:50.04]Im all legit, my bankroll much thicker blame it all on the hits [02:53.44]I started off with bricks, now i own offices [02:56.13]Who would of thought i got all this from talking slick [02:58.80]We went from day-breakers to tax payers [03:01.77]It was once all a dream now the labels pay us.. [03:03.51] [03:26.40]I was supposed to be dead [03:28.90]I was in them streets real bad [03:31.61]Dreams of houses in the hills [03:34.50]I was hustling just to make it real [03:37.79]But now I came up and I'm number one [03:40.24]Yall know the story mo money mo problems [03:43.04]In these streets [03:44.22]Live or die [03:45.50]And I lived I don't know why.. [03:46.69]