How Did We Get Here-Fat Joe/R Kelly

[ti:How Did We Get Here] [ar:Fat Joe] [al:The Darkside, Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How Did We Get Here - Fat Joe/R Kelly [00:10.45]Yo [00:10.95]It was all a dream' couldnt save Big and Pac [00:13.57]Right in broad day watch the fiends bodies drop [00:16.37]And at night you gotta turn your TV volume up [00:18.99]Cuz the cop sirens blast up and down my block [00:21.81]Sh*t aint been the same is what you hear on my block [00:24.56]Bunch of old school gangstas telling tales on my block [00:27.11]Came home tatted tears in a plan to get paid [00:29.74]Put it in a box said a prayer and it came [00:32.61]What can make you smile and be the thing to bring you pain [00:35.53]Is what my daddy told my momma going through her labor pains [00:38.21]Is what my momma told me as the cops took me away [00:40.65]Eazy-E said "f**k'em"' ya i feel the same way [00:43.39]Another dead body' its another homicide [00:45.02]But n*ggas tryna kill us that why we call this' dark side [00:48.95]The streets is' ruthless even sold to my own blood [00:52.37]No love just a youngin tryna blow up [00:54.99]So tell me how did we' how did we [00:57.37]How did we get here [00:58.93]From the middle of no where [01:02.67]From up out these streets we made it ya [01:05.55]So tell me how did we' how did we [01:07.60]How did we get here [01:08.76]From the middle of no where ya [01:12.63] [01:13.14]Somebody tell me' how [01:16.38]Me and my *ggaz takin pictures how i freeze time [01:19.12]Lil n*ggaz doin sh*t we cant rewind' know what im sayin [01:22.55]Sh*t is real f**k what yall thought' [01:25.35]Too many n*ggaz gettin killed on the ball court [01:27.04]They was chasing hoop dreams and we was busting sawed offs [01:29.66]And if your shoes gleamed' i would take them all off [01:32.34]Extend my organization the crib swarming with agents [01:35.34]Moms cryin' we based it like lions in cages [01:38.02]Mob giants turn it some clients with cases [01:40.27]Some n*ggaz made statements' some n*ggaz made payments damn [01:43.51]What part of the game is that [01:45.63]I mean to hustle all my life but i do love rap [01:48.75]They got my knees straighted put the battery to my back' [01:51.25]This is around the same time Calderon got clapped [01:53.93]He told me put my life in music' "Joey go for your dreams" [01:56.74]You can do it look at Finesse it aint as hard as it seems [01:59.92]So tell me how did we' how did we [02:02.17]How did we get here [02:03.86]From the middle of no where [02:07.67]From up out these streets we made it ya [02:10.59]So tell me how did we' how did we [02:12.78]How did we get here [02:15.15]From the middle of no where ya [02:17.96]Somebody tell me' how [02:22.08]Aint this nice im bigger than life [02:23.83]In a jacuzzi smoking a Cohiba but this aint a movie [02:26.45]Before i wasn't attractive now i pack the house with groupies [02:29.19]Rubbing shoulders with actors just imagine how would you be [02:32.13]Rocking the latest fashion this is Juicy' all over again [02:34.81]2010 its like Biggies living through me [02:37.49]Chance has changed my route and now the papers greater [02:40.17]Tryna see me on that block i'll see you haters later [02:42.73]So high' defy gravity n*igga f**k ya style imma galaxy [02:45.23]So out of space they cant grab at me' feds aint having me [02:49.91]Im all legit' my bankroll much thicker blame it all on the hits [02:53.65]I started off with bricks' now i own offices [02:55.71]Who would of thought i got all this from talking slick [02:58.96]We went from day-breakers to tax payers [03:01.20]It was once all a dream now the labels pay us [03:04.76]So tell me how did we' how did we [03:06.94]How did we get here [03:08.81]From the middle of no where [03:10.87]From up out these streets we made it ya [03:15.50]So tell me how did we' how did we [03:17.55]How did we get here [03:20.17]From the middle of no where ya [03:23.30]Somebody tell me' how [03:26.16]I was supposed to be dead [03:29.47]I was in them streets real bad [03:32.02]Dreams of houses in the hills [03:34.52]I was hustling just to make it real [03:37.90]But now I came up and I'm number one [03:40.58]Yall know the story mo money mo problems [03:42.82]In these streets [03:43.95]Live or die [03:45.76]And I lived I don't know why [03:47.72]So tell me how did we' how did we [03:50.03]How did we get here [03:51.89]From the middle of no where [03:55.84]From up out these streets we made it ya [03:58.70]So tell me how did we' how did we [04:01.14]How did we get here [04:03.13]From the middle of no where ya [04:06.69]Somebody tell me' how [04:08.69] [04:10.43]