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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Lead Vocals
Dave "Diz Mix" Lopez
Dave "Diz Mix" Lopez
Keyboards
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Composer
Richard Bartell
Richard Bartell
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Producer
Checkboy
Checkboy
Producer
Dave "Diz Mix" Lopez
Dave "Diz Mix" Lopez
Mixing Engineer
John Greenham
John Greenham
Mastering Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Check the original
Y'all **** digital
The pyroclastic flow
It's insane
[Verse 2]
Motherfuckers love me
Young-ass ****, they wanna thug for me
Wish I was they godfather, sell drugs for me
But all they can do is tap Cuz for me
Look, homie, you can be my crony
If you figure how to get a check outta Sony (Oh, Lord)
Oh, Lord, thought I was preachin' to the choir
When I'm in this pulpit, I might catch on fire
[Verse 3]
Glass fulla gas, do you got a lighter?
Hand fulla ass, why should I retire?
This shit I spit might inspire the Messiah
To throw these liars in a lake full of fire
Ain't nothin' flyer than my fuckin' rims and my tires
And a word to the wise, you better fuckin' recognize
That I been on the block since bitches did the wop
Since Floyd and Damien kept rocks in they socks, ****
[Verse 4]
Taught Tupac how to keep it gangsta (Keep it gangsta)
I showed Biggie Smalls how to release his anger
Who came before me? Melle Mel, Ice-T, King Tee
KRS, and the homie Chuck D?
PE, DMC, ****, know your history
If Cube ain't top three, then you's a bitch to me
Ice Cube, the name will live in infamy
As the young **** that invented Eazy-E
[Verse 5]
West Coast, bitch
Yeah, that's all me
With Too $hort and the D-R-E
We made it too hard
Check our family tree
See you try to make a Snapple
Outta all them bad apples, ****, enough
Leave you baffled and gaffled and
Runnin' through your house like it's a motherfuckin' raffle
I'm a asshole with Tabasco
You the last hoe I would ask for
If I had to leave Mo house and walk into a whorehouse
The drink that I pour out
The weed that I blow out
Is all for by **** Big Herk when I show out
Picture this in a frame, get tore out
When I wanna go out, red carpets get rolled out
[Verse 6]
There's a lotta you's (A lot)
There's only one of me
They are not confused by the wannabe
There's a lotta you's (A lot)
There's only one of me
They are not confused by the wannabe
[Verse 7]
(Original, original)
I'm the prototype (Original)
(Original, original)
He the copyright (Original)
(Original, original)
I'm the prototype (Original)
(Original, original)
He the copyright (Original)
[Verse 8]
So what? You from the gutter
We all had to struggle if you got a black mother
We all had to scrap with our uncles and our brothers
Bedroom window, no curtains, used covers
Motherfuckers always claim to be the hardest
But these motherfuckers never claim to be the smartest
I'm a artist that'll paint your rigor mortis
You silly rabbit, ****, here come the tortoise
Fast is smooth, and smooth is slow
And that's how you get it twenty years in a row
Advance how you get twenty years in the hole
Pretend that your ass ain't got no soul
Grab that cold-ass white man steel
Cap peels, run like a oil spill
Big drills, found him in the landfill
You got thirty years, but you my man still
Fuck them tears, Tony Montana
Caught you in Montana, extradited to Atlanta
This ain't the banana, ****, this is Alabama
Nail in your coffin when the judge drops the hammer, ****
[Verse 9]
There's a lotta you's (A lot)
There's only one of me
They are not confused by the wannabe
There's a lotta you's (A lot)
There's only one of me
They are not confused by the wannabe
[Verse 10]
(Original, original)
I'm the prototype (Original, original, original)
He the copyright (Original, original, original)
I'm the prototype (Original, original, original)
He the copyright
Written by: Ice Cube, Richard Bartell
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