Now when I just made 12 years old

My mama told me:'Baby boy you know you gotta be strong

And even though they lead you wrong stay on the right track

Cause it ain't no get right without some get back.'

Yeah I heard that but back then I didn't feel it

Cause I was rollin' do or die tryna see me a ticket just kickin'

G block I said I'll never leave

Even when the rollers chase me down til I can't breathe

Nigga freeze, who me? Oh, never that!

I'm hittin' fence after fence until I'm chillin' at my doormat

Like a mack I had to get away

Cause I'm a smooth operator, ask Shanda

But the rollers in the V is so shady

If they could, they would plan something on me

But really, them ain't the fools I gotta worry 'bout

Cause white folks goin' loced in the white house

And I doubt a republican or democrate

Gives a fuck about us young inner city blacks

It's a trap, Uncle Sam keeps cursing me

Rather have me in the pen than the university

Yeah, it's a shame but mane, that's how it is

So ya better peep game and try to lace ya kids

Cause it ain't no tellin' what's soon to come

When the punk president might drop the bomb

Got me all stressed out with my brain on numb

My little cousin asking me where dope come from

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They try to tell us in the verses and the scriptures

But I guess the real message must have missed us

In '96 all my brothers and my sisters

Is on a mission, we're trippin' livin' senseless

Tell me, will I see the sun in days to come

Will blacks be the victors instead of victims

Or will my people keep killing over fuckin' crumbs

Pushin' dope just to reach ghetto stardom

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