It Is What It Is

Ha, ha, ha, On Beat

Cold world most of my kin dead or the pen

That's why I'm an Eskimo, I bought an igloo and put on my wrist

Ran out of option we gotta survive so we takin' risk

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is

Red dot on your white tee it look like Japan

The 40 is on me and if I get hot, it blow like a fan

They talk bout the hood like they know the answer but never been in

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is

Yeah, yeah, everybody got the answers (answers)

They say that they plan is the master (master)

They preaching to us like they pastors (amen)

Yeah, yeah, the government treat us like cancer (cancer)

The prison system make us bastards (bastards)

Our sin on the news and it's plastered! (woah!)

We can't even turn to charity

They make money off our tragedy (they get the money)

If life a school of hard knock

Street will teach you like academy

Everybody in they glass house

Tell us what we need to do to make it out

When they was born on that mountaintop

They ain't seen the bottom

They don't know the route (they don't know the route)

You think that we choose this environment? (yah)

I wish I could choose an entitlement (yah)

Instead of being born in poverty and hungry hyenas surrounding me

The Fortune 500 won't hire me

So we create our own economies

With dope money, yeah, our salary

Just to feed our families

I close my eyes and pray that God deliver me (deliver me)

Churches move into our hood

But they don't come and speak (I don't know you)

While they gentrify, (gentrify) we risk our life

Selling dope, probably die not knowing Christ

Cold world most of my kin dead or the pen

That's why I'm an Eskimo

I bought an igloo and put on my wrist

Ran out of option we gotta survive so we takin' risk

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is

Red dot on your white tee it look like Japan

The 40 is on me and if I get hot, it blow like a fan

They talk bout the hood like they know the answer but never been in

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is

I used to wonder why, we blow our whole tax refund

On brand new J’s, a Gucci belt, a few gold chains

When you can put that change in a IRA

You just waiting, by the time that you retire

You’ll be at the millionaire stage

What’s the point of saving anything

You die, you can’t take it with you

And that will probably be tonight the way that they shooting

They straight out to hit you (pa pa pa pow!)

I bet you God hear the prayers of millions of mothers

And they all sound the same

Even though their sons in different gangs

And they shooting at each other right now (right now)

You hear her cries now (right now)

Now he's a hashtag they debating 'bout it online now (yah)

That's what I call an abortion (abortion)

And since we talking about abortions

We ain't put them clinics in our own hood

Somebody making a fortune (millions)

You talk 'bout these mothers like they out here

Killing for sport (killing for sport)

Rather kill they baby in her belly

Before he get brought in the war (pray for her)

You politicize our genocides

Then use the victim as an scapegoat

But if you care like you say to do

You should talk less and do more

Cold world most of my kin dead or the pen

That's why I'm an Eskimo, I bought an igloo and put on my wrist

Ran out of option we gotta survive so we takin' risk

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is

Red dot on your white tee it look like Japan

The 40 is on me and if I get hot, it blow like a fan

They talk bout the hood like they know the answer but never been in

Committing sin we gotta live, it is what it is