Mind Games

It's 1993, something's have been rough

You know, that just made me hard an' shit

I didn't like when people tried to punk me

When people started carrying guns an' shit

Well, anyways

In '94 April he got shot

Which, you know, just started a big ol' thing

Then a whole bunch of stuff happened

Enemies grab your strap 'cause Woodie's back with a SK choppa for your ass

West twomp, Norteño, earn my strap to the youngins livin' fast

Strapped and young with a lot to prove, dared anyone to make a move

Buckin' at those scraps in West Boulevard way back in '92

It's '99, been to hell and back, Blackbird is gone, I dwell on that

****, what could I've done to change the way shit went down

Wish I can bring him back

This gangbangin' done took its toll, I drink old gold to keep control

To please my soul where the demons grows, gotta be true, release its horns

It won't let go so I keep on ridin', slide that clip in, ready to drop them bodies

Enemies to come get at me so your ass get busted when it was done

I know when it's time for me to go, I'm gonna die in a cloud of guns

Was gettin' dreams of my death since the age of fourteen

I'm surprised I ain't already done croaked

When negative thoughts in the back of my mind, gotta find a way to make that cabbage

Tired of seeing the homies broke, gotta plan to have our lives livin' lavish

Rappin' about this life we lead, rappin' about this blunt we shared

But the diferent ways homies bled to keep eachother one step ahead

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

What if you're slippin' without your strap, chance to get murdered most likely high

Now when come, bump the shoulders in these streets, then they see bullets fly

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

I'm trying to keep my thoughts in check everyday

I struggle to keep my mind sane mind sane

Pull an AK and I can't tell Heaven and hell keep playing mind games

Through trials and tribulation, I developed an act for paitience

So I'm camoflauged and waitin' when it comes to retalation

Infiltratin', surveyin' your spot, gotta plot so I don't get caught

My click be hot, by the cops were sought, they'd love to empty out our knot

Therefore engagin' in tactics the average soldier couldn't grasp

But I'll leave it at that 'cause I know detectives try decodin' my raps

They tryin' to lock all of us up, they might have killed the babies and Los

They knew that Snoop didn't kill nobody, yet sentenced him to the most

No doubt the media's on their side, the media feeds the nation lies

They just relay what the government say, they're puppets for the public's eyes

This world's built up of gangs, some are bigger some are smaller

F.B.I, C.I.A, Norteno, Crip, Blood we all are...

Set trippin'

But the A.T.F decides how many straps we get

The D.E.A decides just how much coke and heroin's smuggled in

And so on, it goes on from the top to the bottom

And we're at the bottom, livin' up in these streets

So fuck you pigs when you ask me why I shot 'em

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

But what if you're slippin' without your strap, chance to get murdered most likely high

Now when they come, bump the shoulders in these streets, then they see bullets fly

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

I'm trying to keep my thoughts in check everyday

I struggle to keep my mind sane

Pull an AK and I can't tell Heaven and hell keep playing mind games

I'd love to have a family, beautiful wife that understands me

Many sons and a daughter, but I'd be a father on the brink of sanity

Would it be fair if one day daddy disappeared?

Whether I lost my mind or I lost my life, left with one mother to care

Would they end up like me?

It's definitely a possibility

Just one of a thousand questions eatin' me up inside, it's killin' me

But if an unplanned child comes, I'm stickin' by my loaded guns

I'll protect my little homie and have an army of sons

Fuck it! I'll teach 'em everything that I know, make sure they grow to become hogs

How to plot attacks and cover their tracks, loyalty above all laws

I gotta keep dreamin' to keep them demons out my head so I don't snap

I might peel my wig back or your wig back, I ain't dealin' with a full stack

Brain unstable but I remain able to keep them shady thoughts cradled

Takin' it day by day and when the sunset's hope, the night ain't fatal

Look in the sky, pick a star, that's blackbird tonight

I'm choppin' it up with my big homie, he might be gone but he's still in my life

Impossible to separate us, we're one of the same spirit

His flesh is gone but his soul lives on, and when he speaks to me I hear it

The only difference is I'm walkin' the earth still caught up in drama

But my numbers called game over, no more need for the bulletproof armor

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

What if you're slippin' without your strap, chance to get murdered most likely high

Now when they come, bump the shoulders in these streets, then they see bullets fly

When enemies approach, should I run or should I kill?

Fuck running, I'm gonna producin' murders with my steel

I'm trying to keep my thoughts in check everyday

I struggle to keep my mind sane mind sane

Pull an AK and I can't tell Heaven and hell keep playing mind games

Whenever you wanna talk to me, I'll be listening, don't worry

Hear that home boys?

He's still with us

Whenever you wanna talk to me, I'll be listening, don't worry

Just not in the flesh

Woodie watching over all of us

Whenever you wanna talk to me, I'll be listening, don't worry

I'll see you in a minute Los, I love ya

Whenever you wanna talk to me

Whenever you wanna talk to me

Whenever you wanna talk to me, I'll be listening

Yeah and I love all my family, all my homies

Ya know, I never turn my back on any of ya

How could I?

Look what snoop did

Loyalty above all laws