It Is What It Is

Ras Kass

featuring Jazze Pha




[Ras Kass]



I been around the world once had your fiancé twice



I ain't nothin' nice but every lifestyle got a price



Kiss my momma on the cheek cause her love was deep



Like Keith Sweat but the deeper the streets get



The deeper the beef get



Enough fatal attraction to ??? your vet



Cause everybody wanna have it ??? and sh



Now ??? is my ??? over night insight



I write like six hundred thousand kilobytes



Yes I'm on one, European cars, Cuban cigars, rap stars,



Glass ceilings to the inevitable cap dealing for sexual healing



I lack feeling, voted for black women like Terry Macmillan



Save a prayer for me, I was told no guts no glory



I shed a tear once in a while, too



But a soldier gots to do what he gots to do



I once ??? in ??? for Rupert Murdoch, I thought you knew



It is what it is




Hook:



[Jazze Pha] Nowadays, that's the way it is



[Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we must, that's



how it is, and how it is is kinda fucked up



[Jazze Pha] It's sad to say, but things just ain't the same no more



[Ras Kass] Why do we do what we do when we do what we lust, it is



what it is, and how it is is kinda fucked up




[Ras Kass]



If the pussy is free, then talk is cheap



Then again, it's probably cheaper to keep her



Back in the days, all a nigga needed was suede pumas and a beeper



Now they all expecting condos, briquettes and pet cheetahs



See ya when I see ya



And by then I know the motors she bogus I noticed they jockin the rims on



the ???



I learned early to trust God when moms was like [you wear all that Nike



shit]



You need to swoosh your ass and get a job



My occupation be operation, more horsepower t