Y'all ready to do this sh**? Bust em [ VERSE 1 ] When I was young I had the lust to pull the trigger And make change out a 5-dollar-a** n***a And as time went on, I gained much love But seein n***as' guts bust at a nightclub Too young to get my a** in, but they didn't trip Cause if I didn't get in, they knew I'd start sh** So I was treated like the muthaf**in pope Security see me, so they scope And follow me around like a flock of hoes I had a squab with a b**h with a big-a** nose I started to knock the b**h out, but before I could I'm stopped short by a redneck peckerwood But he was slow, with the other hand slapped the ho Then security rushed us out the backdo' So when I grabbed the nine, they thought I'd go nuts I'd roll by and bust caps at the grown-up's Young n***a got bold and off the liquor As a young n***a (He said, "Young-a** n***a!") (You dumb n***a, you) --] Ice Cube [ VERSE 2 ] Well, what do you know, it's summer time And every young n***a my age is on the grind Workin for the city A d**tore on evey goddamn corner, and n***as actin sh**ty About who sell where and whose dope is it So some n***as around the block, they paid us a visit But we ain't comin off sh** but a drive-by I guess they wanna expand to go city-wide So we hung muthaf**as by the barbed wire Whoever was a snitch or b**h or liar
And five-o is gettin kinda dense Cause the wire was missin from a county jail fence Breakin off boulders And the n***as from around the block they said they told us Not to short-stop, so my n***a got popped I looked down, and I'm shocked To see him layin dead by the bushes As a young n***a [ VERSE 3 ] sh** is gettin hectic, my mission had to flow smooth We hit the corner in a '65 old school Bustin at n***as twice my age Muthaf**as catchin heat from my gauge They tried to shoot back, but it ain't like that Cause I'm the n***a with the biggest gat Hoes get f**ed and eat the bullet Cause the trigger that got my n***a, one of them had to pull it My n***a with the nine said, "Forget it" But I seen a n***a point his finger and say, "He did it" I loaded up the clip and shot him in the dick And kept on bustin till his leg kicked Now we Audi 5000, gee The gla**packs on the '65 got noisy We had to smash Cause five-o was right behind our a** We had to get away, we dumped the A.K And the guage in the bushes on the way The cops kept bustin, n***as kept cussin About which way to go fussin We hit the corner, and they bust At some n***as lookin just like us We knew it was about that time Hopped out my homeboy's sh**, and into mine We got away, because they couldn't figure Which one of the boys was that young n***a