Lyrics: That’s How It Is
Album: Gangsta’s Paradise
Artist: Coolio
 

Coolio: what up fow?
-ain’t nuthin man, wassup wit you?
C: try’n to get my hustles on, you know how it is
(right, right)
-what you doin’ nowadays?
C: hustlin’, what you doin’?
-school, man. i’m tryin’ to get out of this muthafucka, man.
C: right, well go then…hehe you know what i’m sayin’, i’m tryin’ to
Make money.
[gunshots]

C: ah shit, damn there it goes, ah shit!
– see there man, that’s what i’m tryin’ to do, get up out this
Muthafucka,serious
Man.i’m fed up with this shit. nigger set trippin’, i ain’t even
Banging.
C: what
-you know what i’m sayin’? drive-bys and shit, muthafuckas steelin’ my
Shit, crackheads. i’m tired of this shit.
C: that’s how it is around here though, man. you’ve been livin’ around
Here though man.
– right, right but i’m tired of it.
C: right,i here you, man.you know sumthin’ though?
– what’s up man?
C: as much as i hate this muthafucka, i love this muthafucka.
– right.
C: that’s how the ghetto is, man.
-you’re right.