Ras Kass - It is What It Is lyrics
[ras kass]
I been around the world oncehad your fianc? twice
I ain't nothin' nicebut every lifestyle got a price
Kiss my momma on the cheek cause her love was deep
Like keith sweatbut the deeper the streets get
The deeper the beef get
Enough fatal attraction to boil your pet
Cause everybody wanna have it lavish and sh
Nowcourvoisier is my dossier overnightinsight
I write like six hundred thousand kilobytes
Yes I'm on oneeuropean carscuban cigarsrap stars
Glass ceilings to the inevitable cap peeling for sexual healing
I lack feelingvoted for black women like terry macmillan
Save a prayer for meI was told no guts no glory
I shed a tear once in a whiletoo
But a soldier gots to do what he gots to do
I want stock in fox with rupert murdochI thought you knew
It is what it is
Hook:
[jazze pha] nowadaysthat's the way it is
[ras kass] why do we do what we do when we do what we mustthat's
How it isand how it is is kinda fucked up
[jazze pha] it's sad to saybut things just ain't the same no more
[ras kass] why do we do what we do when we do what we lustit is
What it isand how it is is kinda fucked up
[ras kass]
If the pussy is freethen talk is cheap
Then againit's probably cheaper to keep her
Back in the daysall a nigga needed was suede pumas and a beeper
Now they all expecting condosbriquettes and pet cheetahs
See ya when I see ya
And by then I know the motivesshe bogus
I noticed her jocking the rims on the lotus
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 operationmore horsepower than daytona
Cause I'm a riderlike winona
Being nice is a vicethe gift is naturally mine
That's like +grand verbalizer+ not knowing the time
Seemy partners commit crimes serving federal bids
Confined to a six by nine regrettin the wrong shit he did
I swearwishing we was still little kids
But we grown men now homeyit is what it is
Hook
[ras kass]
Hip hop ain't even fun
In these strange daysrappers is getting done
Like jericho won
Within two monthstwo major artists got slumped
I whispered God rest the dead and let the blaupunkt pump
Kept a part and a fade since about eleventh grade
Rock the donna karan shades
Cause I don't like to dream about getting paid
But I'm afraid I do
Trying to organize a teamwilling to empty magazines
This supreme fiends for cream
We need jesus like mary magdalene and born again christians
Ain't a politician cause I already got your vote
TrueI 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 evidentlythe custom convertible bentley tempt me
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 goesyeah
There are things that we can change
But most things gon' stay the same
It's the way it is
You better believe itooh yeah
