🎵 This Way // by Dilated Peoples

47 ContributorsThis Way Lyrics From the album Neighborhood Watch, this song is Dilated Peoples' greatest commercial success [Intro: Kanye West, Sample, Choir, & Evidence] Now turn it up (A little louder) Turn it up (A little louder) Turn it up (A little louder) Can't live my, I, I can't live my I can't live my, I, I can't live Turn it up (A little louder) I, I can't live my Can't live my life [Verse 1: Evidence] Yeah, yo, I can't live my, I, I can't live my Life this way, continually get high Instead of running 'round, lock one bird down (Yeah) It's a new day, gotta do it big just to get by (Right, right) Show no respect? Can't live that way (Nah, nah) You hold my check? Can't live that way Without my chick on deck? Can't live that way (Yeah) They say what they like, but I've been that way (Woo) Our moves calculated through the lens; almost here (Yeah) Success will be the best revenge (Yeah) Man, from Clint East' to Kanye West (What up, what up) The sun can't chill, but every day it sets (Evidence) [Chorus: Men's Choir + (Women's Choir) & Kanye West] This time, I made up my mind This time, I'm back on my grind I know there's things in my life That I'ma let go starting tonight (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) I can't live my, I, I can't live my I can't live my life This way (Can't live my, I, I can't live my) This way (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (This Way) I can't live my, I, I can't live my I can't live my life this way (Yeah, Kanye to the) [Verse 2: Kanye West] My favorite girl wanna leave me just because I got a girlfriend My freak girl told me now she a Christian My white girl wanna move back to Michigan (Okay) I'm pulling girls off the bench like a sixth man I'm in the club, doing the same old two step While Omegas doing the same old "Q" step (Q) I had my money on my mind, I was thinking green She a pledge; A.K.A., she was pink and green I want a good girl, she want a gentleman (Okay) We saying the same thing like a synonym I wasn't really spitting game, I was scrimmaging My penmanship so hard, it need censorship (Woo) I'm a Chica-go in 'til Chicago wins (Yeah) 'Til we blow like Chicago wind I don't know what's better, getting laid or getting paid (Ha-ha) I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away (Yeah) This way [Chorus: Choir, (Female Choir) & Kanye West] This time, I made up my mind (Uh) This time, I'm back on my grind (Yeah) I know there's things in my life That I'ma let go starting tonight (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) I can't live my, I, I can't live my I can't live my life this way (Can't live my, I, I can't live my) This way (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) This way, I can't live my, I, I can't live my I can't live my life this way [Verse 3: Rakaa Iriscience] Go 'head, flip a coin so the game can start Believe, I know the drama, kid; name the part I learned, before the hot flame came the spark It's like before the pop fame came to Pac But this industry'll play with your life, man (Uh) They playing with your rent, food, water and lights, man (Yeah, aight) That's why Rakaa brings it like that ol' Toddy Tee jam The Batterram, then I'm off to Amsterdam (Woo) To rest up for strength to deal with this weight (Ah) To deal with these deals, to deal with this hate I dedicate this to Jam Master Jay (Yeah) Run-D.M.C. showed me how to walk this way [Chorus: Choir, (Female Choir) & John Legend] This time, I made up my mind (Uh, yeah) This time, I'm back on my grind (Oh, oh) I know there's things in my life (Come on) That I'ma let go starting tonight (Uh, here we go, all the ladies) (Yeah) (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (A little louder) (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (Yeah, come on, fellas) I can't live my, I, I can't live my (Brothers) I can't live my life this way (Can't live my, I, I can't live my) (Yeah, yeah) This way (I can't live my, I, I can't live my) (I can't live my life this way, come on) This way, I can't live my, I, I can't live my (Woo) I can't live my life this way (Fellas, like that, come on, uh, yeah, I know, I know, I) [Outro: Evidence, (Female Choir) & John Legend] Throw your lighters up (This way, this way) [?] in the trap right now (I-I, I-I) If you feelin' like I'm feelin' right now (I-I, I-I) In the trap (I know, I know, I) (This way) (I, I, yeah) (I, I)