Everything Was The Same

[Intro: Fabolous] Yeah, everything, everything was the same [Verse: Fabolous] I'm old enough to know better, young enough to not give a fuck Rather hold my head high and die, than live and duck I gotta' set it off, Jada, Queen and Vivica The last chick was scared to get that money, I can't live like her Got no problem with you niggas, get it how you live it, bruh It's a cold world, these mean streets will shiver ya' All I asks is for the same respect that I be givin' ya If not my boy will put the beats on you, Karen Civil ya That boy be on his shoot first, never mind the trivia My advice, don't mess with his man, word to Nivea We go back to when we got that white from Bolivia We was candy shopping before 50 and Olivia That's when you would go uptown, 'cause you had to re' there Everybody broke back then, you had to repair Drug dealing was cool back then, you had to beware That was the 90's, y'all wouldn't get it, you had to be there That's why I'm glad to be here, some of us never made it It's hard to get off the ground, y'all think I just levitated Y'all think it was all love and nobody ever hated Y'all think 'cause I never state it, I never been devastated All y'all see is sunshinin', think I was never shaded Ya' think these calendar models is all that I ever dated Nigga, nothing was the same, HOT 97 played it Every day they made it that I stayed with 57 plated Can't trust nobody, the crib is heavy gated You ask, "why?" I tell them even heaven's gated You know why? 'Cause when you good the, devil hate it And even if you heavy weighted people want you feather weighted Attention I never payed it, me and this clever lady She brains, do some thangs, then we lay together faded And while I chill, loaded up a steel Just wishin' a nigga would but knowin' a nigga will But for real nigga good is how you feel But soon as a nigga good is as soon as a nigga will Still, I don't owe these niggas nothing, put that in a nigga will [Outro: Stacy Barthe] Damned if you do Damned if you don't, don't, don't don't But they don't have a heaven or hell to put you through, no You're damned if you do Damned if you don't People sit around and judge you anyway Don't, don't don't