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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
O'Shea Jackson
O'Shea Jackson
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Scott Storch
Scott Storch
Producer

Lyrics

Yeah
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Come on
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 goddamn thing changed
It's the same old same
Bush run shit like Saddam Hussien
I cock and aim, clinically insane
To deal with this bullshit day to day
If I sell some yey 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? 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 **** taking over show biz
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
It's boys 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
**** killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood (For real)
'Cause when **** get tribal, it's all about survival
Nobody liable
I got caught by Five-O
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 DA before I got gaffled
Owned by CA, state property
Just like the year 1553
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
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 .44 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 **** what the fucking boss did
D game got a **** exhausted
Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
Twenty years for what?
Breaking these laws, they're so corrupt
Taking these halls and filling 'em up
Some powder keg shit that's about to erupt
Aye, y'all, I'm about to be stuck
Until the year 2000, 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
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 tripping on it
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
Written by: O'Shea Jackson, Scott Storch
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