Things Ain't What The Used To Be-Master p

[ti:Things Ain't What The Used To Be] [ar:Master p] [al:Ice Cream Man] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Things Ain't What The Used To Be - Master p [00:01.39]Things ain't what they used to be [00:04.66] [00:07.80]Things ain't what they used to be [00:09.81] [00:12.35]I remember back in the days [00:13.53] [00:14.14]It wasn't like that [00:14.96]Everybody knew everybody [00:17.02]Now days it ain't like that [00:18.55]We used to stand on the corners and drink brew [00:21.71]Now days you gotta duck when they drive through [00:24.78]Cause they blastin' life is like plastic [00:27.27]But who would be [00:28.27]The next egg took out the easter basket [00:30.79]Is it you me or her or she or he [00:33.92]Who would live to see the long age of 23 [00:36.75]Cause once you dead and gone who gives a damn [00:39.44]On your tombstone would read Rest In Peace Sam [00:42.07] [00:42.90]But in the ghetto you cooked 'till you dead [00:45.54]Ain't no love when you dead [00:47.11]And gone cause you red [00:48.53]Like roaches for the gutter peanut butter [00:51.19]Your life in the gutter fool cause you fluttered [00:54.76]With this game that I spit shoot out don't quit [00:57.93]Now you a victim of society another statistic [00:59.36]I heard the gunshots rain [01:01.46]From the middle of the street [01:04.50]The gunsmoke cleared three people on the concrete [01:07.53]I mean it's crazy slippin' on daisies [01:10.18]Time to call it quits they done put a bullet in a baby [01:13.34]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:16.74]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:19.70]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:22.74]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:25.80]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:29.04]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [01:33.76] [01:35.95]Watch you back in the ghetto black [01:37.92]Open the box Mom's ain't nothing to eat [01:40.84]Back in the day I thought we was a family [01:43.67]My little brother on the street corner selling crack [01:45.94] [01:46.96]Only 15 used to be a quarterback [01:49.70]I wish the law would rehabilitate my auntie [01:52.88]I came home try to visit that girl tried to do me [01:55.90]Started tweakin said that she needed crack [01:59.09]Stole my grandma's rent money out her purse black [02:02.13]I stay Tru 2 Da Game you devils' can't see me [02:05.12]I put that on my mom I put that on my gold teeth [02:08.35]My homies bangin' no respect for the American flag [02:11.32]But they kill over that blue and red rag [02:14.50]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:18.07]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:20.54]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:23.32]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:26.37]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:29.60]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [02:33.16] [02:38.06]I remember back in the day smoking [02:39.55]W**d was the everyday drug [02:41.11] [02:41.81]Now days they shoot h****n and sell blood [02:44.35]Back in the day catchin the clamps was gettin us shot [02:47.75]Now days catch the AIDS and your time will stop [02:50.78]My lil homies doin time 25 with a L [02:53.79]A victim of the system I'd rather die and go to hell [02:56.79]I try to be legit and start my own company [02:59.93]'Till these sucker want to bump into P [03:02.80]They point the finger at me [03:04.16]For tellin another what to do [03:05.97]How could another person tell you what to do [03:08.91]I could tell you to rob or steal or kill [03:12.07]Thats like pointin' the finger at Jack or Jill [03:15.22]For being the first person on this little earth [03:17.40] [03:18.09]Is like askin' Mary why she had to give birth [03:21.69]And who would be the next victim to lose his life [03:24.52]And who would be the next one to make a life [03:27.41]But when you make a life you [03:29.10]Gotta learn to teach your kid [03:30.63]So one day they can grow up and make it big [03:33.48]But all this gangbangin' and turf wars gotta cease [03:36.45]Cause y'all know we livin in the last days G [03:39.37] [03:40.17]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [03:42.88]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [03:45.64]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be [03:48.62]Times done changed things ain't what they used to be