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Things Ain't What They Used to Be
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Master P
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[Mo B. Dick]
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Things ain't what they used to be.
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Things ain't what they used to be.
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[Verse 1: Master P]
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I remember back in the days it wasn't like that
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Everybody knew everybody, now days it ain't like that
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We used to stand on the corners and drink brew
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Now days you gotta duck when they drive through
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Cause they blastin', life is like plastic
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But who would be the next egg took out the easter basket
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Is it you, me, or her or she or he?
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who would live to see the long age of 23?
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Cause once you dead and gone who gives a damn
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On your tombstone would read Rest In Peace Sam
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But in the ghetto you cooked 'till you dead
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Ain't no love when you dead and gone cause you red
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Like roaches for the gutter, peanut butter
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your life in the gutter , fool cause you fluttered
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With this game that I spit, shoot out, don't quit
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Now you a victim of society another statistic
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I heard the gunshots rain from the middle of the street
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The gun-smoke cleared three people on the concrete
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I mean it's crazy, slippin' on daisies
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Time to call it quits, they done put a bullet in a baby
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[Chorus: Master P and Mo. be Dick]
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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Times done changed things ain't what they used to be
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[Verse 2: Master P]
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Watch you back in the ghetto black
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Open the box, Mom's ain't nothing to eat
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Back in the day, I thought we was a family
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My little brother on the street corner selling crack
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Only 15 used to be a quarterback
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I wish the law would rehabilitate my auntie
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I came home try to visit that girl tried to do me
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Started tweakin' said that she needed crack
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Stole my grandma's rent money out her purse black
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I stay Tru 2 Da Game you devils' can't see me
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I put that on my mom, I put that on my gold teeth
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My homies bangin' ,no respect for the American flag
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But they kill over that blue and red rag
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 3: Master P]
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I remember back in the day smoking weed was the everyday drug
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Now days they shoot heroin and sell blood
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Back in the day catchin' the clamps was gettin' us shot
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Now days catch the AIDS and your time will stop
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My lil' homies doin' time, 25 with a L
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A victim of the system, I'd rather die and go to hell
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I try to be legit and start my own company
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Till these sucker want to bump into P
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They point the finger at me for tellin' another what to do
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How could another person tell you what to do
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I could tell you to rob or steal or kill
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that's like pointin' the finger at Jack or Jill
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For being the first person on this little earth
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Is like askin' Mary why she had to give birth
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And who would be the next victim to lose his life
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And who would be the next one to make a life
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But when you make a life you gotta learn to teach your kid
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So one day they can grow up and make it big
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But all this gangbangin' and turf wars gotta cease
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Cause y'all know we livin' in the last days G
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[Chorus]
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