[ti:Why We Thugs]
[ar:Ice Cube]
[al:Laugh Now, Cry Later]
[by:lrc.d4321.com]
[00:04.730] Yeah
[00:06.630] Every hood's the same
[00:09.650] Come on
[00:11.320] They give us guns and drugs
[00:12.680] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[00:15.820] They wanna count the slugs
[00:17.760] Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh)
[00:20.800] They give us guns and drugs
[00:22.370] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[00:25.410] They wanna count the slugs
[00:27.250] Then come around here and **** with us
[00:30.670] I'm from the land of the gang bang
[00:32.410] Since I was little, ain't a god damn thang changed
[00:34.910] It's the same ol same
[00:37.010] Bush run s**t like Sadaam Hussien
[00:39.340] I c**k and aim, clinically insane
[00:40.670] To deal with this bulls**t day to day
[00:44.060] If I sell some yay or smoke some hay
[00:46.640] You *****es wanna throw me up in pelican's bay
[00:49.160] Call me an animal up in the system
[00:51.570] But who's the animal that built this prison
[00:54.520] Who's the animal that invented lower living
[00:56.410] The projects, thank god for Russell Simmons
[00:59.670] Thank god for Sugarhill
[01:01.300] I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grill
[01:03.810] Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids
[01:06.460] How these ghetto ****** taken over showbiz
[01:08.020] They give us guns and drugs
[01:10.920] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[01:14.330] They wanna count the slugs
[01:16.050] Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh)
[01:19.110] They give us guns and drugs
[01:20.580] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[01:23.990] They wanna count the slugs
[01:25.430] Then come around here and **** with us
[01:28.060] It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood
[01:30.140] Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood
[01:32.610] Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood
[01:36.120] ***** killed a crip and a blood in the hood (For real)
[01:37.500] Cause when ****** get tribal
[01:39.930] It's all about survival, nobody liable
[01:43.280] I got caught by five-oh
[01:45.170] Grandmama came to court with her Bible
[01:48.320] But when the judge hit the gavel
[01:49.820] Now I'm too far from my family to travel (****)
[01:53.020] I just came unraveled
[01:54.770] Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
[01:57.000] Owned by C.A, State Property
[01:59.510] Just like the year fifteen fifty three
[02:01.860] Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
[02:04.660] Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out?
[02:07.650] They give us guns and drugs
[02:08.940] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[02:12.330] They wanna count the slugs
[02:13.870] Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh)
[02:17.140] They give us guns and drugs
[02:18.760] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[02:22.190] They wanna count the slugs
[02:23.610] Then come around here and **** with us
[02:26.340] (Damn) I can't take the pressure
[02:28.450] Pulled the fo-fo up out the dresser
[02:30.820] Grabbed the weight up out the closet
[02:32.170] Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it
[02:35.750] Y'all know what happened last time I lost it
[02:38.100] Can't tell you ****** what the ****ing boss did
[02:41.070] The game got a ***** exhausted
[02:43.030] Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
[02:46.660] Twenty years for what?
[02:47.860] Breaking these laws that's so corrupt
[02:50.280] Taking these halls and filling 'em up
[02:52.690] Some powder keg s**t that's about to erupt
[02:55.950] Ay y'all, I'm about to be stuck
[02:57.560] Until the year two thousand, what the ****?
[02:59.760] In the hood, don't press your luck
[03:02.380] Cause these ************s will set you up, word up
[03:05.390] They give us guns and drugs
[03:07.090] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[03:10.720] They wanna count the slugs
[03:12.170] Then come around here and **** with us (Uh huh)
[03:14.740] They give us guns and drugs
[03:17.010] Then wonder why in the **** we thugs
[03:20.420] They wanna count the slugs
[03:21.790] Then come around here and **** with us
[03:25.490] Every hood's the same
[03:30.080] Every hood's the same
[03:33.340] Stop tripping on it
[03:34.890] Every hood's the same
[03:39.670] Every hood's the same