Y? (Be Like That)

[Intro]

Why is that?

Why is that?

Why is that?

Why is that?

[Chorus]

(Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Why it's gotta be like that)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that?

[Verse 1: Bootie Brown]

I wasn't sleepin', I was creepin', slidin', hidin'

I would lock the door behind me, roll up a fat Thai, thinking

Mentally sinking, presently brinking

Two decades and a half creatin' a path for mine to follow

The world is hollow, yet it's full of crap, prepare to gamble

I give you a handful of chips and tips ofwhat's to come, I cried a ton of tears

Drunk a ton of beers, that's fun at first, but learned to persevere throughout the years

Kept my ears open, eyes scoping, mouth locked

Don't rock the boat if you can't swim

Nobody may not be there with the limb to lend

This is the end, still, I can't explain the fact

Why the fuck shit gotta be like that?

[Chorus]

(Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that

Tell me, tell me why it's gotta be like that

[Verse 2: Imani]

Know what? I said it

Hear me clear and, oh, it's so severe and dreaded

That they need to be beheaded, why?

I'm readily, steadily stimulating and mutilating

All sloppily-copied imitations 'cause they irritatin'

So I'm intimidating them over the snare with simply a stare

Bringin' them turbulent terror and they know this 'cause they can feel it

He knew that it was mine, still the sucker tried to steal it (Uh-huh)

So I had to reveal it, through proving that I

Am astonishing and fly and by just blinking my eye

In a flash, I flushed out the face, layin' low-key

Trained eyes locate to focus on the phony

Mister sometimey homie, why he act like that?

I thought he had my back, I thought he had our backs

But it was him who I should've never trusted

At not at least until he got his attitude adjusted

Or mouth busted for actin' all dusted, but bust this

Now when I'm out, I seek and sort out the whole scene

For all sinister types, sneaks that scheme

They come into my face, I send them tight men home

When they be suffering from the double-agent syndrome (Why?)

Why it gotta be like that?

[Chorus]

(Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that?

[Verse 3: Slimkid3]

Uh, sometimes this world means everything to me (Everything to me)

The inside is lovely through these eyes, I see (Through these eyes, I see)

And, sometimes in my mind, all I wanna do is cry (Why?)

Highly upset, but nothing drops from my eye (Eye)

Thoughts drain out my skin 'cause I'm pissed from within (Uh-huh)

I see a situation now and all I do is grin (All I do is grin)

People think I'm high, but I'm mentally traveling (Mentally traveling)

Aging in sure times 'cause life's unravelling (Unravelling)

While I'm straddling walls of this fuckin' mic (Mic)

I hate to be a pilot, crashin' in a flight (Crashin' in a flight)

People need to know about this thing called life (Called life)

'Cause if you see the light then life's alright (So can you dig it?)

[Chorus]

Be like that, it just be like that (Say what? Say what? Say what? Can you dig it?)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Uh, say what? Say what? Say what? Can you dig it?)

Be like that, it just be like that (Uh, say what? Say what? Say what? Can you dig it?)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Say what?)

[Verse 4: Fatlip]

I jumps inside the Jeep as I embark on my dark mission

Popped in my freestyle tapes, start reminiscing

'Bout my little homie who was raised in Wyoming

Wanted to be famous, so he came to Cali-phony on the microphony

Was super bad and whatnot

But he was the kind of fella to follow fads that was hot

He became so fascinated with that gang-related flavor

That he modificated, rearranged his behavior

He hooked up quick with the influential slang

Gangster stroll, cornrows, the whole shebang

Braggin' and boastin', boastin' and braggin'

How he mostly be hangin' with baby G's I was baggin'

Like why you tryin' to hoo-ride up on the bandwagon? (What? What?)

Hopin' they'd hit him in the head, but he steady saggin'

Like he a hog, creepin' through the smog

Smokin' on some indo, sippin' on a cup of O-Dog

Like most who come to this West Coast society

Try to be because they think it's fly to be a menace

So, what a relic way to end this

Got rolled up when he was strolling on a Sunday up at Venice

Niggas never listen, they gotta learn they lesson

The hard way I'm guessin', yessin'

Deedy as I hit the beady and make a right on Weston

Pops in my head, the proverbial question, why it—

[Chorus]

Be like that, it just be like that

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

Be like that, it just be like that (Why it's gotta be like that)

Can you tell me why it's gotta be like that? (Tell me why)

[Outro]

Why it's gotta be like that

Why it's gotta be like that

Why it's gotta be like that

Tell me why