It’s Like That

X-Ray Da Mindbenda ft. B-Wyze - “It’s Like That”
[Emcee(s): B-Wyze]
[Producer(s): X-Ray Da Mindbenda]
[Scratches: X-Ray Da Mindbenda]

[Hook: B-Wyze]
It’s like
That, that’s just the way it is, been like
That ever since I been a kid, it’s like
That. Some things are never gonna change ‘til they
Fix the education for the young ones’ brains

[Verse 1: B-Wyze]
And if
You put that gat in your rhyme, it might sell, but
The last two cats on that five both fell, couldn’t
Separate the rhyme from the real, so they got killed by
The songs that they wrote. Now their songs got the deal, touched
Plenty on the weight of the place that they went, selling
Records like a mug, ain’t lived to see a cent, spent
What the label said that they’d pay to promote, trying
To get the publishing for stuff they ain’t wrote. I was
Ashamed for a while to tell people I rapped ‘cause they
Always looked at me like I was packing a gat. Deep down
Inside, I always knew the reason, but
I always denied why they lied to please him. “For
The money or the art?” was the question I asked. People’ll
Rhyme about anything for that cash. “Can they
Relate?” is the ultimate fate of success. Emcees
Need to learn that before they be the best. Stress
The fact that the flow is intact and never wack, but
Y’all don’t nothing ‘bout that, too busy acting like
What y’all rhyme was about instead of rhyming ‘bout
What your life was about and just that. A golden
Rule if you want to survive your next rap: what
You say always seems to find its way back. If
You say you gonna shoot me, I’m gon’ pull out a strap to
Assure that I don’t get capped—it’s like that, like
That

[Hook: B-Wyze]
That’s just the way it is, been like
That ever since I been a kid, it’s like
That. Some things are never gonna change ‘til they
Fix the education for the young ones’ brains. It’s like
That, that’s just the way it is, been like
That ever since I been a kid, it’s like
That. Some things are never gonna change ‘til they
Fix the education for the young ones’ brains. It’s like
That

[Verse 2: B-Wyze]
And as a matter of fact, if you don’t know that
The world is gonna always have niggas that’s poor, and
The ones that got more gonna lock the door ‘cause nine
Times out of ten, they’ve been there before. Fo-
-reigners got the stores in my hood sewn up, and we
Sit back and watch as they start to blow up, working
Every day to give all the cream to someone else, growing
Up to find out that you got no wealth. Self-
-hatred sets in so you beat up the kid to make
Sure that they don’t do the same as you did. A bid
Worth, time served teaches us that. Ain’t
Nobody gonna do shit for the black, and we
React like somebody ‘posed to make us rich. When we
Look at our woman, all we see is a bitch. The brain
Glitch that tells us to kill our own kind. Rewind
To slave time, find the tricks of the mind. The blind
Leads the blind, pick up a 9 to find trouble, man
Visions of the ghetto, bubblegoose, razor stubble and
40-ounce bottle, cigar incised, slumped in
A brown paper bag in an expensive ride. Rap
Music in the loop melody with verses
Arrogant emcees with songs filled with curses
The hearses, broke-ass chicks with Coach purses
Crying ‘cause their best friend man used to give her it
The street dog walk into the gold, then its teeth is
Looks black from Newports and blunts filled with reefers
Po-po, your hood ho with all of them kids, three
Baby daddies all locked up, doing bids—it’s like
That, and if your cannon look back, then do so, but
The ghetto ain’t a place for a new face, yo—it’s like
That with a bag of chips and a quarter juice, two
Loosies make a dollar, get more for the youths

[Hook: B-Wyze]
It’s like
That, that’s just the way it is, been like
That ever since I been a kid, it’s like
That. Some things are never gonna change ‘til they
Fix the education for the young ones’ brains. It’s like
That, that’s just the way it is, been like
That ever since I been a kid, it’s like
That. Some things are never gonna change ‘til they
Fix the education for the young ones’ brains. It’s like
That