Why We Thugs
Ice Cube

They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us
They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

I'm from the land of the gang bang
Since I was little, ain't a god damn thang changed
It's the same ol same
Bush run shit like Sadaam Hussien
I cock and aim, clinically insane
To deal with this bullshit day to day
If I sell some yay or smoke some hay
You bitches wanna throw me up in Pelican's Bay
Call me an animal up in the system
But who's the animal that built this prison
Who's the animal that invented lower living
The projects, thank god for Russell Simmons
Thank god for Sugarhill
I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grill
Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids
How these ghetto niggas taken over showbiz

They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (Uh huh)
They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

It's Boyz in the Hood, it's toys in the hood
Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood
Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood
Nigga killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood (For real)
Cause when niggas get tribal
It's all about survival, nobody liable
I got caught by Five-0
Grandmama came to court with her bible
But when the judge hit the gavel
Now I'm too far from my family to travel
I just came unraveled
Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
Owned by C.A, State Property
Just like the year fifteen fifty three
Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out?

They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (Uh huh)
They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

(Damn) I can't take the pressure
Pulled the fo-fo up out the dresser
Grabbed the weight up out the closet
Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it
Y'all know what happened last time I lost it
Can't tell you niggas what the fuckin boss did
D game got a nigga exhausted
Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
Twenty years for what?
Breaking these laws that's so corrupt
Taking these halls and fillin 'em up
Some powder cake shit that's about to erupt
Ay y'all, I'm about to be stuck
Until the year two thousand, what the fuck?
In the hood, don't press your luck
Cause these motherfuckers will set you up, word up

They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (Uh huh)
They give us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same, stop trippin on it


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Das EFX)   Check Yo Self [The Message Remix]   Check Yourself (Video Edit)   Cheddar   Child Support   Child Support (Album Version)   Children of the Korn   Chin Check   Chrome & Paint   Chrome & Paint   Chrome And Paint   Cinta   Click, Clack - Get Back!   Cold Places   Color Blind   Colorblind   Come & Get It   Come And Get It   Concrete   Connected for Life   Connected for Life [Clean Album]   Connected for Life [Main/Clean]   Crack Baby   Crack Baby [*]   Crack Baby?   Crowded   Dead Homiez   Death   Definition Of A West Coast G (Intro)   Definitions Of A West Coast G (Intro)   Dewick   Dimes & Nicks   Dimes & Nicks (A Call from Mike Epps)   Dimes & Nicks (A Call From Mike Epps)   Dirty Mack   Do Ya Thang   Do Your Thang   Dodgers Anthem 2013   Doin' What It 'Pose 2Do   Doin' What It 'pose 2Do   Doing Dumb Sh**   Doing Dumb Shit   Don't Make Me Hurt Ya Feelings   Don't Make Me Hurt Ya Feelings [*]   Don't Trust 'em   Don't Trust Em   Don't Trust 'em   Down For Whatever   Dr. Frankenstein   Drink the Kool-Aid   Drink The Kool-Aid (Single)   Drop Girl   Drop Girl (Remix)   Endangered Species (Tales From The Dark Side) (fea...   Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)   Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) (Feat...   Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) [Remi...   Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) [Remi...   Enemy   Everybody Wants You   Everythang's Corrupt (Single)   Everythang\u2019s Corrupt   Extradition   Fat Cat   First Day Of School (Intro)   Friday   Friday [Beat]   Friday [From Friday]   Fuck Dying   Funeral   Game Over - DrDre   Gangsta Fairytale 2   Gangsta Nation   Gangsta Rap (Remix)   Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It   Gangsta's Fairytale 2   Gangsta's Fairytale, Pt. 2   Get Money, Spend Money, No Money   Get Money, Spend Money, No Money   Get off My *** and Tell Yo ***** to Come Here [Rem...   Get Off My Dick & Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here (Re   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here (Re...   Get Off My Dick and Tell Yo' Bitch to Come Here (R...   Get Use to It   Get Use To It   Get Used To It   Get Used To It (ft. 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