50 Cent
"Then Days Went By"

[Sample:]
"This is how monsters function." [beat starts]

[Intro:]
Leave me alooooone!
I ain't fucking with nobody!

[Verse 1:]
Keep fucking with me you gon' turn me back to BooBoo,
Had me casing out your crib. - Tryna pop your fucking noodles!
She was 20, I was 12! - Man, my NaNa said she raped me!
I just smiled from ear to ear - saying: "Take me baby, take me! "
Since high school! - Nigga I ain't got no friends,
Got 2 .380's like the Ying-Yang twins!
EEHHH! - That's spot clicking 'til the D's run in
Then it's bail money and lawyer fees you got to have it!
Rest of year I had that CBR hurricane
And an I'll hair an' bone I got 'em slingin' Heroin!
I shoot a nigga in a heartbeat, I ain't no chump!
Then you can run Forrest, run; retard when I dump!
They take kindness for weakness, niggas don't respect that!
So me, I'm with that Ruger, that Pump and that Tec at!
So look at me I'm on that! - I thought we was rich then,
Shipment! - You had like - 20 bricks in Richmond
We was in cocaine heaven! - I was fish scale dreamin'!
We just got in the town! - We was strapped up schemin'!
First Country caught a body then. - Country caught a body then,
I popped a couple niggas then Country shot everybody! (everybody!)
It's cold blooded! - It's real shit you got to love it!
Three-eight Snub it! - And don't think nothing of it!
It's the way of the wolves! - That's how they train us to move
Get it poppin' when we shoppin', niggas hold down the tools! (hold down the tools!)

[Chorus:]
I see niggas gettin' rich!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
I was tired of not having shit!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
I see niggas getting hit!
Ten days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
We was swinging that shit!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)

[Verse 2:]
Yeah! - Unsure since we was little niggas, son since we was 7
Armed robbery! - First degree, my man did seven!
Niggas popped his whip up! - Hit his Camry with seven!
He a lucky motherfucker, I bet he make it to heaven!
My Grandpa drunk! - My Uncle Rob drunk!
My Uncle Champ bombed crack! - Smoked my fuckin' stash up!
I had two hundred and fifty grams stashed on the porche;
I mean how much you gon' smoke man? - How much you gon' snort?
First the VCR went! - Then the TV went!
He stole out of mommy purse! - She thought it was me, kid!
I ain't ask for no money son, cause I was out hustlin'
She was lookin' at me sideways, like I'm a theif or somethin'!
That hurt me! - Come on son, that wouldn't hurt you!
I pistol whip that nigga 'til his face was purple!
I need anger management! - See I hold on new broads!
The same way I hold on to that nickel plate Snub!

[Bridge:]
The Lord don't have imperfections baby (naah!)
So I think I'm perfect the way he made me! (yeeah!)
Some say I'm cool! Some say I'm crazy! (uh-huh!)
Some say I ain't shit! - Some say I'm amazing! (whooooo!)

[Chorus:]
I see niggas gettin' rich!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
I was tired of not having shit!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
I see niggas getting hit!
Ten days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!)
We was swinging that shit!
Then days went by! (days went by!)
Then days went by! (days went by!) Then days went by! (days went by!) - Here I am!