[ti:How It Is (Explicit)] [ar:Malz Monday] [al:Balance] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.34]How It Is (Explicit) - Malz Monday [00:01.82]Lyrics by:Jamal Reid [00:10.67]Never found my place in the crowd [00:12.16]So I stay from the crowd [00:13.34]They laughed at me then but look at they faces right now [00:16.02]Jigga gave me the blueprint I been tracing it out [00:18.74]Never chasing the clout I'm just embracin' my route [00:21.41]Never catch me worshipping false idols never [00:23.62]How you flexin' in a rental with no car title [00:26.20]And when it come to street credit you got a low fico [00:28.91]But you know I'm a smooth criminal like the goat Michael [00:31.66]Really my psyche like Michael myers my flow psycho [00:34.45]If your intentions ain't genuine I just don't like you nah [00:37.13]Who said I ain't good in the hood [00:38.64]I just stroll right through [00:39.80]F**k what you heard n***as know that I been cold like flu [00:42.48]So no comparisons I'm cold [00:43.81]'Cause I'm the rarest one [00:45.24]I got respect for some n***as I just ain't scared of none [00:47.97]Why every time when they need some help [00:49.50]I be there for them huh [00:50.72]But every time when the tables turn I ain't hearin' nothin' hmm [00:53.89]That's just how it is [00:55.92]That's just how it is uh [00:58.01]That's just how it is [00:59.38]That's just how it is [01:01.06]Yeah that's just how it is yeah [01:03.43]That's just how it is [01:04.79]That's just how it is [01:06.45]Man that's just how it is uh [01:08.92]That's just how it is [01:10.28]That's just how it is [01:11.93]Yeah that's just how it is just how it is [01:14.33]That's just how it is [01:16.45]Police pull me over and ask me why I look nervous [01:18.87]What you mean [01:19.39]It's bloody murder ain't here to protect or serve us uh [01:22.17]You know the narrative [01:23.27]Life might be more fair if I had fairer skin [01:26.17]That's just the way it is d**n [01:27.54]And we just can't pretend [01:28.80]You turn a blind eye on your people [01:30.32]That's a heavy sin word [01:31.83]See I could give a f**k about the bread you spend [01:34.19]F**k it [01:34.56]How you claimin' a culture that you don't represent [01:37.07]Man that's some sucker s**t sucker [01:38.65]I was up then I was down [01:39.86]But now I'm up again now I'm up [01:41.31]Now the ones that turned they back they showin' love again [01:43.91]People see me asking me where's such and such and them [01:46.55]Don't bring them n***as up around me I don't f**k with them [01:49.02]I cut 'em off it's permanent cut 'em [01:50.82]And if you claim I did you dirty you deserved the s**t [01:53.38]Guilty until proven innocent's what the verdict is [01:55.97]When you from the hood [01:56.95]They don't treat you like the suburban kids but [01:59.31]That's just how it is [02:01.36]That's just how it is uh [02:03.41]That's just how it is [02:04.76]That's just how it is [02:06.42]Yeah that's just how it is yeah [02:08.83]That's just how it is [02:10.22]That's just how it is [02:11.91]Man that's just how it is uh [02:14.30]That's just how it is [02:15.73]That's just how it is [02:17.36]Yeah that's just how it is just how it is [02:19.78]That's just how it is