(Intro) (Babe Reg) Big up From the begining of time Mr. Doc and me be livin in tragedy, know Bloodclots to all the adversaries from knew Jr. High Me still round cuz that's all me knew Malo, come again Why me bless this time stressed To make the best of time You ever smoked to rip your chest open We stressed out So me smoke til me open Me live me life Me live me life hopin Odysea L-O-C-P In locomotion Immaculacy One day we'll be toastin Crystil But in the meanwhile I speak loud with the rapper Nefarious style To let you know in the meanwhile I smoke fools before me pa** out And me promise to smoke with you in the next life Chow (Doc) Yeah yeah! do you believe in me There's only one way for you to find out Trace it, and lace it, and review it The past we'll go through it In 1991, 16 paccin a gun We looped out and locced like gun smoke Met the big homie Foe Loc Who intoxicated me with "Ides" And had me review all kind of violent sh** in my life Like why I got stripes The homie Reg a lready got drugged by the lo Got picced up by Monterio But that's another story so here we go The homie Ceno came up from Altradino Now we cliccin Beyond that we all gang bangers Steady dippin and all trippin I didn't even have a fuccin place to go Stayed like that for a year And hooked up with Blacc Market and now roll In 92 X got blamed for some sh** he ain't do In 93 Lynch got shot by a gangsta and that's coo We slippin You think you seen hard sh** that's trif In 96 some ho a** tried to locc me up fo life n***a I swear I know...you've been...goin through it homie Doc: Yeah I know you've been goin through it I know...you've been...goin through it n***a Doc: I know...you see we live and we live I know...you've been...goin through it homie Doc: Yeah we've been goin through it I know...you've been...goin through it n***a Doc: Yeah see first we live and we live (Foe Loc) Should have believed in me Foe Loc The Loco god When I smoked yo spliff 91 swoopin up Mr. Doctor and uff I'm on on this Liquid suicide and fools was trippin off the little loc Til we started sweatin all these fools I wish I had it on video Been doin this sh** since way bacc ??ain't been there ya fools?? Didn't start rollin the Warstain till about 92 Hard headed and I never let anyone be the closest homie Cuz in high school I put it down even when five was runnin up on me And my folks was thinkin my mentality is to-bacc But I never had a big homie to teach me how to act These streets is where I'm at Had 40's across my bacc Knives and k**a straps drawn on me and all of that 93 sewed up the East and the po-po's regulate T.A.S.K. up in our houses no motivate on wait Many thing happening lost a life my little Markie Gone from his own hands wonder if d**h is creepin on me And that's on god I know...you've been...goin through it homie Doc: Yeah I know you've been goin through it I know...you've been...goin through it n***a Doc: I know you see we live and we live I know...you've been...goin through it homie Doc: Yeah we've been goin through it I know...you've been...goin through it n***a Doc: First we gon live...then we gonna live (Foe Loc) Seems like the desprite times The cause for desprite measures But if you pullin liccs for desprite times Then you doin it for the better But if you enjoyin it then your doin it for the pleasure And if you're doin it for desprite times Then you're doin it for ever What ever man can justify anything that they do Peel your cap bacc over a fucc you and a dirty shoe But who's man to question the mentality of a street soldier All the livin our lives through the understand gettin over Doc (Doc) Gettin over like homies who got addictions And udilize the weakness to find yours Like they doin liquor stores It's all good Cuz if I didn't have my motha fuccas I might have died Or got caught for a hoo ride That's why I loves to roll with pride See when I get mine Understand my whole world will get blessed My whole got tests That's why we all the best With all the time I invest Sweatin tears without the mess I keep my n***as beatin in my chest Much love homie (Doc talking) (Chorus in backround) Yeah! been goin through it Mr. Doctor been goin through it Foe Loco been goin through it Odysea, Babe Reg, Tre Eight been goin through it All of Rosemont, the Blocc Sacramento been goin through it Cedsing been goin through it Triple Beam been goin through it C-locs y'all been goin through it Stan been goin through it This is dedicated to Markie Much love He went through it