Why We Thugs-Ice Cube

[00:04.73]Yeah [00:06.63]Every hood's the same [00:09.65]Come on [00:09.93] [00:11.32]They give us guns and drugs [00:12.68]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [00:15.82]They wanna count the slugs [00:17.76]Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh) [00:20.80]They give us guns and drugs [00:22.37]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [00:25.41]They wanna count the slugs [00:27.25]Then come around here and **** with us [00:27.68] [00:30.67]I'm from the land of the gang bang [00:32.41]Since I was little, ain't a god damn thang changed [00:34.91]It's the same ol same [00:37.01]Bush run s**t like Sadaam Hussien [00:39.34]I c**k and aim, clinically insane [00:40.67]To deal with this bulls**t day to day [00:44.06]If I sell some yay or smoke some hay [00:46.64]You *****es wanna throw me up in pelican's bay [00:49.16]Call me an animal up in the system [00:51.57]But who's the animal that built this prison [00:54.52]Who's the animal that invented lower living [00:56.41]The projects, thank god for Russell Simmons [00:59.67]Thank god for Sugarhill [01:01.30]I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grill [01:03.81]Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids [01:06.46]How these ghetto ****** taken over showbiz [01:07.30] [01:08.02]They give us guns and drugs [01:10.92]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [01:14.33]They wanna count the slugs [01:16.05]Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh) [01:19.11]They give us guns and drugs [01:20.58]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [01:23.99]They wanna count the slugs [01:25.43]Then come around here and **** with us [01:27.17] [01:28.06]It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood [01:30.14]Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood [01:32.61]Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood [01:36.12]***** killed a crip and a blood in the hood (For real) [01:37.50]Cause when ****** get tribal [01:39.93]It's all about survival, nobody liable [01:43.28]I got caught by five-oh [01:45.17]Grandmama came to court with her Bible [01:48.32]But when the judge hit the gavel [01:49.82]Now I'm too far from my family to travel (****) [01:53.02]I just came unraveled [01:54.77]Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled [01:57.00]Owned by C.A, State Property [01:59.51]Just like the year fifteen fifty three [02:01.86]Looking for me, a one-way ticket out [02:04.66]Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out? [02:06.32] [02:07.65]They give us guns and drugs [02:08.94]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [02:12.33]They wanna count the slugs [02:13.87]Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh) [02:17.14]They give us guns and drugs [02:18.76]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [02:22.19]They wanna count the slugs [02:23.61]Then come around here and **** with us [02:24.86] [02:26.34](Damn) I can't take the pressure [02:28.45]Pulled the fo-fo up out the dresser [02:30.82]Grabbed the weight up out the closet [02:32.17]Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it [02:35.75]Y'all know what happened last time I lost it [02:38.10]Can't tell you ****** what the ****ing boss did [02:41.07]The game got a ***** exhausted [02:43.03]Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered [02:46.66]Twenty years for what? [02:47.86]Breaking these laws that's so corrupt [02:50.28]Taking these halls and filling 'em up [02:52.69]Some powder keg s**t that's about to erupt [02:55.95]Ay y'all, I'm about to be stuck [02:57.56]Until the year two thousand, what the ****? [02:59.76]In the hood, don't press your luck [03:02.38]Cause these ************s will set you up, word up [03:04.72] [03:05.39]They give us guns and drugs [03:07.09]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [03:10.72]They wanna count the slugs [03:12.17]Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh) [03:14.74]They give us guns and drugs [03:17.01]Then wonder why in the **** we thugs [03:20.42]They wanna count the slugs [03:21.79]Then come around here and **** with us [03:23.50] [03:25.49]Every hood's the same [03:30.08]Every hood's the same [03:33.34]Stop tripping on it [03:34.89]Every hood's the same [03:39.67]Every hood's the same