How Ya Livin'-Low Profile

[ti:How Ya Livin'] [ar:Low Profile] [al:We're In This Together] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]How Ya Livin' - Low Profile [00:21.56]How ya livin a brother kill another for a color [00:23.87] [00:24.51]Now his family's forced to sit and suffer [00:26.33]Gang violence strikes again the sound of a trigger [00:29.11]News at 11 now it's one less nigger they figure [00:31.86]Self destruction bro you're going low [00:33.95]How can you kill a person you don't really even know [00:36.47]In jail you played hard until one slapped you silly [00:38.65]Turned you over like a girlie and rode you like a sissy [00:41.39]Trapped behind bars in the middle of nowhere [00:44.03]Doing 10 to 20 braid another brother's hair [00:46.30]On the streets you was d**e you wasn't a joke [00:48.13]Nobody could cope you was the king of the d**e [00:51.06]Shoot a brother in a minute man that was your duty [00:53.80]But now you're in jail just giving up the booty [00:56.21]Spread 'em I'ma show you what it's like in a jail [00:58.40]I kick reality this ain't a cricket fairytale [01:01.16]You said you had heart homeboy how do you figure [01:03.43]Can you prove it without keeping your finger on the trigger [01:05.87]You’re a punk a peon a buster bound to run [01:08.46]Never using your fist always grabbing a gun [01:10.95]Trigger happy with the gat brain stiffer than a manikin [01:13.75]Shot an old lady but you claim it was an accident [01:16.42]Drop the sawed off you must be ill in [01:18.46] [01:18.97]I got a question homes how ya living [01:20.96] [01:40.74]The beat is d**e so I come off smooth no need to yell it [01:43.46]Now what I seen on the streets I gotta tell it [01:45.99]Smokers on the corner at the rock house shack [01:48.03]Trying to scuffle up some money for a 10 piece crack [01:50.51]And this is critical pitiful life has become more difficult [01:53.29]Children on the corner holding automatic pistols [01:55.59]Taught and trained at a young age to kill another [01:58.00]But the bad thing about it is we're killing each other [02:00.81]Brothers killing brothers over manmade material [02:03.39]It's a like an epidemic better yet venereal [02:05.66]Only if you knew that we was dominant original [02:08.49]We'd be prepared mentally as well as physical [02:10.82]Some say to make it though it's gonna take a miracle [02:13.07]But they can't hold you back brother when you're spiritual [02:15.81]Drop the 40 ounce you must be ill in [02:17.81]Yo Aladdin break it down while I ask 'em how they're living [02:20.50] [02:36.32]Let me tell you about this crackhead I know [02:37.76] [02:40.60]Booby was a crackhead smoking that dust [02:42.48]Like a fool he was a sucker I never could trust [02:45.07]Used to let him in my house he didn't need no permission [02:47.58]Until my godd**n VCR came up missing [02:50.28]Sprung on the pipe like a fish on a hook [02:52.49]Yo booby got labelled as a neighborhood crook [02:55.20]Seen him with a color TV in his hand [02:57.37]Walking down the streets sparked looking for the d**e man [03:00.13]Skinny as hell from just hitting the pipe [03:02.29]Lost his job his two kids the beautiful wife [03:04.54] [03:05.39]He'd sell his mother if you gave him a chance [03:07.17] [03:07.73]Long as booby got a piece of crack in his hands [03:09.96]Hey yo you know what's sad or should I say it's a shame [03:12.14]The way c r a c k destroys the brain [03:15.09]Think somebody wanna see these things [03:17.47]Another dumb brother just smoking c***e [03:20.07]Sucking up crack until your lips turn purple [03:22.43]From rehab to rehab you're running in a circle [03:24.58] [03:25.21]It's mandatory I touch this category [03:27.33]That's why I made it simple self explanatory [03:29.85]It shouldn't take long for me to state what's on my mind [03:32.23]Why should I sit and write a 10 minute long rhyme [03:34.63]Hey yo drop the 40 ounce you must be ill in [03:37.47]So I conclude this rhyme with how ya living