[ti:How Ya Livin']
[ar:Low Profile]
[al:We're In This Together]
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[00:00.00]How Ya Livin' - Low Profile
[00:21.56]How ya livin a brother k**l another for a color
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[00:24.51]Now his family's forced to sit and suffer
[00:26.33]Gang violence strikes again the sound of a trigger
[00:29.11]News at 11 now it's one less n****r they figure
[00:31.86]Self destruction bro you're going low
[00:33.95]How can you k**l a person you don't really even know
[00:36.47]In jail you played hard until one slapped you silly
[00:38.65]Turned you over like a girlie and rode you like a sissy
[00:41.39]Trapped behind bars in the middle of nowhere
[00:44.03]Doing 10 to 20 braid another brother's hair
[00:46.30]On the streets you was d**e you wasn't a joke
[00:48.13]Nobody could cope you was the king of the d**e
[00:51.06]s***t a brother in a minute man that was your duty
[00:53.80]But now you're in jail just giving up the booty
[00:56.21]Spread 'em I'ma show you what it's like in a jail
[00:58.40]I kick reality this ain't a cricket fairytale
[01:01.16]You said you had heart homeboy how do you figure
[01:03.43]Can you prove it without keeping your finger on the trigger
[01:05.87]You’re a punk a peon a buster bound to run
[01:08.46]Never using your fist always grabbing a gun
[01:10.95]Trigger happy with the gat brain stiffer than a manikin
[01:13.75]Shot an old lady but you claim it was an accident
[01:16.42]Drop the sawed off you must be ill in
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[01:18.97]I got a question homes how ya living
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[01:40.74]The beat is d**e so I come off smooth no need to yell it
[01:43.46]Now what I seen on the streets I gotta tell it
[01:45.99]Smokers on the corner at the rock house shack
[01:48.03]Trying to scuffle up some money for a 10 piece crack
[01:50.51]And this is critical pitiful life has become more difficult
[01:53.29]Children on the corner holding automatic pistols
[01:55.59]Taught and trained at a young age to k**l another
[01:58.00]But the bad thing about it is we're killing each other
[02:00.81]Brothers killing brothers over manmade material
[02:03.39]It's a like an epidemic better yet venereal
[02:05.66]Only if you knew that we was dominant original
[02:08.49]We'd be prepared mentally as well as physical
[02:10.82]Some say to make it though it's gonna take a miracle
[02:13.07]But they can't hold you back brother when you're spiritual
[02:15.81]Drop the 40 ounce you must be ill in
[02:17.81]Yo Aladdin break it down while I ask 'em how they're living
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[02:36.32]Let me tell you about this crackhead I know
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[02:40.60]Booby was a crackhead smoking that dust
[02:42.48]Like a fool he was a sucker I never could trust
[02:45.07]Used to let him in my house he didn't need no permission
[02:47.58]Until my godd**n VCR came up missing
[02:50.28]Sprung on the pipe like a fish on a hook
[02:52.49]Yo booby got labelled as a neighborhood crook
[02:55.20]Seen him with a color TV in his hand
[02:57.37]Walking down the streets sparked looking for the d**e man
[03:00.13]Skinny as hell from just hitting the pipe
[03:02.29]Lost his job his two kids the beautiful wife
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[03:05.39]He'd sell his mother if you gave him a chance
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[03:07.73]Long as booby got a piece of crack in his hands
[03:09.96]Hey yo you know what's sad or should I say it's a shame
[03:12.14]The way c r a c k destroys the brain
[03:15.09]Think somebody wanna see these things
[03:17.47]Another dumb brother just smoking c***e
[03:20.07]Sucking up crack until your lips turn purple
[03:22.43]From rehab to rehab you're running in a circle
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[03:25.21]It's mandatory I touch this category
[03:27.33]That's why I made it simple self explanatory
[03:29.85]It shouldn't take long for me to state what's on my mind
[03:32.23]Why should I sit and write a 10 minute long rhyme
[03:34.63]Hey yo drop the 40 ounce you must be ill in
[03:37.47]So I conclude this rhyme with how ya living