Snoop Dog - The Way Life Used to Be

Take it back to the afros and the naturals 
Cape cutter picks we slips into the back [?] 
I'm O.G. my nigga for real though 
Straight up off that east side top of the hill yo 
I'm looking at the overview 
Thinking bout 86 damn I was overdue 
Walking in the hood making mix tapes trying to walk up out the hood 
While I'm chucking at the hood nigga talk about the hood 
That I came from it raised me real Crip crazy 
[?] oops a daisy 
Demon or a heathen scheming while I'm dreaming 
Screaming to get even seeing is believing 
And don't you forget that 
Get it to you get back hit that kick back 
Three flies one a way 
Reminisce about the things that my grandmama use to say 
Stay in your own lane stay on your own and quick trying to be grown 
Day turn to night and play turn to fight 
Yeah I guess my granny was right 

Reflections of the way life used to be 
It's all right 

I like them girls from Ladera Heights or the girls on Hills 
I take a trip up the World On Wheels and get in a fight 
Make it back to my ride 
Pop shots at some suckers disrespecting the side 
My big homie my cuzzo schoolyard bozo 
Slid me away just to get me away 
I'm just a Long Beach nigga outside of my hood 
I'm banging riding but doing it good 
When I get locked down there ain't hiding and wondering 
As soon as I hit the County I'm up in 48 hundred 
With the dealers the killers the [?] 
The best from the west and the beast from the east 
Yeah I'm acting a fool 
I'm getting my degree from gladiator school 

I chose this life cause I knows this life 
Sell a little crack and my flows is tight 
I'm clear on my choice and what's cold is 
I can still hear my grandma's voice 
She say day turn to night and play turn to fight 
Yeah I guess my granny was right 

Reflections of the way life used to be 
It's all right 

If you get caught then you don't walk cause you don't talk 
And these was the rules squeeze on these fools 
I came up in a different era homie 
Where the G's is the G's and the little wannabe's really want it 
Wanna be like cause the C life make you wanna G like 
Now who you wanna be like 
That fool on the TV screen 
Or the homie on the corner getting major cream 
In the Cadillac beating like Battle Cat 
A nigga with money don't know how to act 
Smoke til your eyes get cataracts 
All money nonsense yeah none of that 
Quarter sack run it back 
Hold him back lock him up bag him up front him that 
If a trick jump the track do you want your money back 
Lil bitch was a bunny rat 
Watch for the funny hat 
Cause it's gonna come 
And my granny said it's no fun 
She say day turn to night and play turn to fight 
Yeah I guess my granny was right 

Reflections of the way life used to be 
It's all right