That's How It Is

(album: Gangsta's Paradise - 1995)

[Coolio:] What up fow?
-Ain't nuthin man, wassup wit you?
[C:] Try'n to get my hustles on, you know how it is
(right, right)
-What you doing nowadays?
[C:] Hustling, what you doin'?
-School, man. I'm trying to get out of this muthafucka, man.
[C:] Right, well go then...hehe you know what I'm saying, I'm trying to make money.

[Gunshots]

[C:] Ah shit, damn there it goes, ah shit!
See there man, that's what I'm trying to do, get up out this muthafucka, serious man.
I'm fed up with this shit. Nigger set tripping, I ain't even banging.
[C:] What
-You know what I'm sayin'? Drive-bys and shit, muthafuckas steeling my shit, crackheads. I'm tired of this shit.
[C:] That's how it is around here though, man. You've been living around here though man.
Right, right but I'm tired of it.
[C:] Right,I here you, man.You know sumthing though?
What's up man?
[C:] As much as I hate this muthafucka, I love this muthafucka.
Right.
[C:] That's how the ghetto is, man.
-You're right.