The Only Way (Explicit Album Version) - Explicit Album Version

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Sometimes I think about the only way that I'll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying

Verse 1 Sen Dog

Only way out is in a bag I figure

You aint even mean(?) you, lil punk ass nigga

Once you down for me, you down for life

We stay hustlin fool, keep the family tight

We run business, snow out witness

With evidence(?), don't ever contradict this

That's why I only love to control it

Love for my hood, and the niggas that I roll with

Verse 1 B-Real

I love LA, but it's a jungle

We come from the darkest corners, where all the street kids rumble

Get their hustle on and hold dice in the bundle

Stumble on the red, some can't stay humble

Many catch cases of leather, pressure, they crumble

Will pigs catch em, they bound to catch a couple

Streets of hot lead sure enough, will make you tumble

No names attached, nigga put you out with one blow

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Sometimes I think about the only way that I'll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying

Verse 2 B-Real

From estside to the valley, raw dogs all over LA, here represent Cali

Lowriders and hot women, what you tell me?

We're ballin' out here and the weed is so smelly

Don't slip or you can get drugged through the alley and violated for credit, get stock in your belly

Cause it's all about survival

Better learn it quick, or you might get wet on arrival

Verse 2 Sen Dog

I got ways of dealin with my own

That's better of not spoken or shown

Hot-hit city when I bring the anger

Heat on the street in the form of gangbangers

This side of earth don't forget, chew you up and spit you out like...

Legal, villain it's all like hell

Hunt your ass down to the graveyard bell

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Sometimes I think about the only way that I'll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying

Verse 3 B-Real

As a young buck growin' up in the Angels City

Caught a glimpse of light together, will ya say it with me?

Was an outlaw for so many years, some in tears

Come reminiscin about the homies who ain't here

Escape the street karma, no matter what deep harm, I could never catch sleep

You know everyday gets much harder

Will set up and get product or set up and get shot up

If you wanna survive, better have the street knowledge

Rappers, actors, gangstas, ballas

Watch stars, copcars, we pop collars, chop dollars

Better have that shit on lock, you got a fat wallet

So you might have a braveheart like ??? Wallace

With a chip on your shoulder, I'm ?? freeze

I'm the coldest nigga in the streets to trigga with these, assault ya nigga

I know lifes cold and bitter when you're all alone and aint nobody running with ya

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Sometimes I think about the only way that I'll ever see life beyond L.A. is dying