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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Ice Cube
Ice Cube
Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
O'Shea Jackson
O'Shea Jackson
Songwriter
James D'agostino
James D'agostino
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
DJ Green Lantern
DJ Green Lantern
Producer

Lyrics

Now, that's how this shit go!
And I know you don't like me spittin' in your motherfuckin' face
But ain't a motherfuckin' thing you can do about a ****
Punk, motherfucker!
Some people may say, "Well, you overdramatized it"
No, we're not, it's not a drama workshop, it is a reality
Things like that, do take place in prisons
The murders, the suicides, as well as the rapes
Do take place inside these human warehouses
****, I'm a hustler, act like I'm lovin' ya
Don't mind fuckin' ya, just like the governor
Used to be the dope man, rolled a hundred spokes, man
When I come through, treat me like the Pope, man
Ghetto spokesman
I know **** in Eastside, Oakland, all the way to Brooklyn
And they love my shitty drawers, what you smokin'?
Think you got the balls, ****, I'm a Trojan
Catchin' all that, just like a prophylac'
Don't reproduce, that bullshit is whack
Flavor Flav, with a white bitch that is whack
Got to put the **** back in my Cadillac
Take him to the hood, where it's action packed
Let him know that the target's still on his back
It's a hustle called, "Capitalism"
Got my **** in prison, all stuck in the system, yeah
Recognize who's a hustler, George Dubya
He's the one that's sittin' back, fuckin' ya
With a big dick, stuck in ya
I'm from a place where the fuckin' Terminator, is the governor
I got a public pretender ('der), tryin to make me a winner ('ner)
****, please, don't surrender ('der), they'll have you for dinner
The ghetto is a ****, trap, take the cheese
Soon as you do it, here, come the police
Invented, and designed fo' us to fail
Where you gon' end up, dead, or in jail
You only got two places
State of California, got two faces
Motherfuckin' devils, get straight racist
When they get you in them lonely dark places
Concrete slave ships, never move
Where **** like us get used like a mule
Don't let 'em catch you, arrest you
Strip and undress you, throw you in a cesspool
You wanna know the crime of the century?
A ghetto elementary, a mental penitentiary
Black man, you never been friend of me
Boy, you kin to me, why we enemies?
The ghetto is a trap
Fuck where you from, ****, look where you at
Where you wanna be? Point it out on a map
Don't be scared to leave, homie, we can come back (come back)
If you wanna come back to this bullshit
Most of it comin' straight out the pulpit
We got to change our ways in the hood
Understand that it's A.I.D.S. in the hood
The **** trap (the **** trap)
The ghetto is a ****, trap, take the cheese
Soon as you do it, here, come the police
Invented, and designed fo' us to fail
Where you gon' end up, dead, or in jail?
The ghetto is a ****, trap, take the cheese
Soon as you do it, here, come the police
Invented, and designed fo' us to fail
Where you gon' end up, dead, or in jail?
I got a public pretender, tryin' to make me a winner
****, please, don't surrender, they'll have you for dinner
Written by: James D'agostino, O'Shea Jackson
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