Locksmith - Now You Know lyrics

[a**hole Records Intro] [Hook] x2 Why Why Why Why (That's Oakland) Yee Yee Yee Yee (That's Richmond) Hey Hey (That's Frisco) And if you ain't from the Bay now your a** know [Left] Now somebody told me not to rep the Bay Why not? This is where I stay They said we was dead and stuck in a grave And living off songs we made back in the day So I'm gonna take the book and start turning pages And expose the fact that they stealing Bay sh** And I ain't talking about popping collars and slanguage I'm talking about the moves they made to make it Artist making labels started with P for sure That's Bay, we all entrepreneurs We all doing our thing because Bay n***as ain't no punks Distribution popping outta the trunk Partner, and don't think we see the relation Between radio, mixtapes, and compiliations And how you come out here on our radio stations And say you love the Bay but can't name the places (Yeah) [Hook] x2 [Locksmith] Yo, we got a little dilemma, man n***as are really bitter, they caught up in the mental, man I'm in the middle it's about to give me a mental strain Everybody's tickled but none of them n***as get it, man I know they just really wanna get rid of me I'm not a victim, I listen as they belittle me Then I just take the negative energy Put it in my lyrics and spit it at my enemies I disregard small affairs Treat 'em like hopscotch and step all over squares Scrutinizing me because I got the song on the air But n***as should understand that I belong over here Yeah, n***a it's long overdue They telling you different, then n***a it's far from the truth In actuality, n***a, we starving like you Nobody stepped up until we started to [Hook] x2