The Hunted Child-Ice T

[00:16.54]today in los angeles another youth loses his life. gunshot wound to [00:19.60]The head. street violence is at an all-time high） [00:23.66]No jokin, Im sleepin with my eyes open [00:25.46]Wanted for a homicide ride, the guns still smokin [00:27.21]Didnt know what I was doin but did it anyway [00:29.15]Now the posses on my trail, they say Im gonna pay （run!） [00:31.77]I had a gun, its mine and I packed it [00:33.76]Out with my crew, the boys caught some static [00:35.57]Me and this sucker punk went at it [00:37.32]Bang! nine automatic [00:39.82]Hunted child [00:43.25]Im the childhunted [00:44.04]（sources say the assailant was 17-years old and lives in south-central [00:51.15]Los angeles） [00:55.09]Now Im on a hideout tip cos theyre after me [00:57.14]Lapd says theyre gonna capture me [00:58.33]Was I crazy? I guess I had to be [01:01.07]Cos once you kill its instant catastrophe [01:03.01]Your whole life is over （through!） [01:05.20]Forget about your girl your （crew!） [01:07.07]Nowhere to run, so what you gonna do? [01:08.69]Be glad its me, homeboy, and not you [01:10.81]The hunted child [01:14.24]Im the hunted child [01:18.55]Hunted child [01:22.04]Im the hunted child [01:41.96]Im only 17, I didnt mean to kill, man [01:44.09]But I was slangin and bangin for the thrill, man [01:46.10]When they said （kill!） I felt chill, man [01:48.03]But once I pulled the trigger, boy, then things got ill, man [01:50.34]My homeboys dipped out the back fast [01:51.71]Left me alone in the echo of the gun blast [01:53.59]Everybody saw my face, I didnt wear a mask [01:55.46]You wanna know my name? just ask [01:57.52]The hunted child [02:01.14]Im the hunted child [02:05.44]Hunted child [02:08.94]Im the hunted child [02:09.81]（the science of capitalism which you teach to the youth on the streets [02:16.99]Today with the ends justifying the means mentality aint happenin） [02:44.57]Im sweatin heavy cos my face is on tv [02:46.50]Everybody in this whole worlds after me [02:48.25]Since I was young I never had a damned thing [02:50.18]At christmas time Id hate to hear the bells ring [02:52.18]Cos in the ghetto santa aint got a dime [02:53.99]Your mothers standin in the welfare line [02:55.36]The way the youth survive is crime [02:57.92]My life is over so I might as well speak my mind [03:00.35]I killed a brother cos this system had me geared to kill [03:02.73]Cos what I call home you call hell [03:04.29]My ghetto quarters aint no better than a jail cell [03:06.15]But theres a message in this story that Im tryna tell [03:08.27]Were just brothers on the streets killin brothers [03:09.83]This system has us geared to kill one another [03:11.33]Sellin **** to poison each other [03:12.39]The plan of the man, word to the mother [03:15.70]But Im a sucker cos I fell into their plan [03:17.69]187, I killed a brother man [03:18.69]My life on earth was hell, you understand? [03:20.75]But when I die Im goin to hell again [03:24.43]Im the hunted child Im the hunted child Im the hunted child the [03:30.73]Hunted child [03:45.10]Im the hunted child [04:17.09]Im the hunted child