Safe & Sound-DJ Quik

[00:01.449]"Quick you're not a gangster, we're not" [00:06.692]Some believe in love and some believe in friends [00:09.009]But ****** like me believe in making ends [00:11.502]Cause even when your ***** wants to trick around [00:13.705]You know that money's got you safe and sound [00:15.760]Now I'm bout to take it back to '84 [00:17.818]When I was 14, kickin' back in the trees [00:20.256]Westside if you please [00:21.629]And 436 West Spruce was the spot [00:24.105]With me Wayne, Mike, Shot, Nookie, Slug [00:26.057]And Rock, Donzelly if you with me [00:27.884]Just let that **** kick [00:28.981]If your head ain't spinning [00:30.435]From dippin' all them sticks [00:31.603]Cause way back in the day [00:32.609]They used love a wet baggie [00:34.003]Screaming "Orale ese" [00:35.340]With them laces on that Caddy [00:36.710]And you couldn't deny a hit from that Buddah Thai [00:39.076]Going 'round and 'round the driveway [00:40.661]Now it's coming my way [00:41.615]And I'm zoned out, at a young age [00:44.005]And the whole Spruce Street was my stage [00:46.287]Peep, now back then [00:47.570]I was in the 8th grade steady [00:49.286]But ****** my age was getting paid already [00:51.768]Yeah, like that ***** Zap, or even young Blue [00:54.320]They made they first million by the age of 22 [00:56.859]Like Dan from Cedar block, him and little Motor [00:59.507]James from Piru Street with them boulders [01:02.026]Rest in peace little Noopy [01:03.228]He didn't have to brag [01:04.281]Rollin' to the 10th grade in a fin-O rag [01:06.556]Well Goddamn, how can I be down? [01:08.783]I asked my sister Jack for some help [01:10.533]And she told me look around [01:11.768]*****, they don't sell ****, it sells itself [01:14.122]While they kickback and just collect the wealth [01:16.029]And now I'm thinking... [01:17.175]Ain't nothing fly about these dirty ass khakis [01:19.651]T-shirt dingy, Pro Wings tacky [01:22.172]This could be a way for me to flip that [01:23.750]Little funky twenty dollars that I earned [01:25.627]Right then is when I learned that... [01:27.132]Some believe in Jesus, some believe in Allah [01:29.444]But ****** like me believe in making dollars [01:32.057]Cause even when your ****** wanna be untrue [01:34.336]You know that money's still good to you [01:37.191]Some believe in love and some believe in friends [01:39.616]But ****** like me believe in making ends [01:42.128]Cause even when your ***** wants to trick around [01:44.402]You know that money's got you safe and sound [01:46.406]Peep, I gets a dub on the 1st and 15th for a fact [01:49.558]So instead of spending it up [01:50.639]I gave my money to Jack [01:52.023]Now she jump in the rig and said, [01:53.528]'I'll be right back', when she came in [01:55.085]She put me down with a plastic sack [01:56.983]I turned my 40 into 80 and that was my profit [01:59.526]I'm keepin' my rocks in the house [02:01.084]And not in my pocket [02:02.177]Sister Jackie's in the kitchen [02:03.355]With some boiling water, baking soda [02:05.017]Fresh powder, baby bottles [02:06.275]Making more boulders [02:07.518]Checking a fat grip slanging rocks to tricks [02:09.729]Donzelly dippin' sticks, went and bought him a 6 [02:12.156]And 500 block Peach running thangs ya see [02:14.756]Moving gallon after gallon and ki after ki [02:17.159]I'm telling you I done seen it all [02:18.638]From ****** hitting the sherm [02:19.768]And then they pass out on the wall [02:21.306]From cluckers wanting a hit so bad [02:22.424]They let their panties fall [02:23.832]Teeth rotten, hair gone [02:25.300]And whole checks get blown, but yet [02:27.161]I'm still breaking these pebbles like bam bam [02:29.799]Safety pin splitting rocks to the, um, tic toc [02:32.637]I went from wearing khakis to Sergio Tacchini [02:34.937]While my rocks are disappearing [02:36.154]Like the great Houdini [02:37.705]I bought a gang of clothes, all of my equipment [02:40.114]And getting something new [02:41.328]With each and every shipment [02:42.732]Money gets made and money gets spent [02:44.885]And how these jealous ****** acting [02:46.238]Only makes it evident that... [02:47.764]Some believe in Jesus, some believe in Allah [02:50.197]But ****** like me believe in making dollars [02:52.647]Cause even when your ****** wanna be untrue [02:54.860]You know that money's still good to you [02:57.821]Some believe in love and some believe in friends [03:00.217]But ****** like me believe in making ends [03:02.785]Cause even when your ***** wants to trick around [03:05.006]You know that money's got you safe and sound [03:07.022]Check it, now in 1988 I moved away to L.A [03:10.003]My ****** Playa Hamm and Gina [03:11.396]Gave me a place to stay [03:12.674]On my way up from bottom rock [03:14.280]******* starting to jock [03:15.139]Cause my hair is getting longer [03:16.565]And game's getting stronger [03:17.837]To pull my on weight I went and got me a job [03:20.112]But by then, Hamm and Gina really started to squab [03:22.638]About whether I should go or stay [03:24.504]She told him 'Either he goes or you go' [03:26.600]We both was on our way [03:27.743]So he moved and took me with him [03:29.056]On 2001 Browning, clowning [03:31.179]With players all around me just astounding [03:33.080]My ***** Pimpin' Carl got us staring with that hair [03:35.228]And rolling up and down the street [03:36.539]In that rag 7 with Darren [03:38.183]Shabby Bleu feathered as he swerved [03:40.031]In the El Co, P7's park away from the curve [03:42.907]Big Jam, L.A Mike, Darryl, Nicky on the bike [03:45.315]That ***** Top, Big Shane and ***** [03:47.067]Rolling up the **** [03:48.063]And hoes just come and go, in and out [03:50.655]Revolving door leaving [03:51.768]With some nut in they mouth [03:52.840]I'm making a living off of pimpin' [03:54.185]So you fools can't trip [03:55.337]Cause even though I love God [03:56.829]I also love my grip [03:58.148]Some believe in Jesus, some believe in Allah [04:00.647]But ****** like me believe in making dollars [04:03.248]Cause even when your ****** wanna be untrue [04:05.408]You know that money's still good to you [04:08.340]Some believe in love and some believe in friends [04:10.748]But ****** like me believe in making ends [04:13.237]Cause even when your ***** wants to trick around [04:15.459]You know that money's got you safe and sound [04:18.398]Ooh, ooh yeah [04:24.010]Safe and sound, yeah [04:26.635]Safe and sound baby [04:28.342]Ooh, ooh, yeah [04:34.217]Safe and sound yeah [04:36.719]Safe and sound [04:38.016]Gotta let you know [04:39.243]Gotta let you know [04:40.538]Gotta let you know [04:41.716]Compton's in the house