Geah
You know how the f** we do it
It's thug sh**
Y'all wit' me?
C'mon, geah
Hey...
Once upon a time in the ghetto you're stuck
In the ghetto you're f**ed
Ah - press your luck
I said once upon a time in the ghetto
You're through
Once upon a time in the ghetto
It's like you
Check it out
(verse 1)
My life has been like gun blast every night
Stop the car, searched down with a flashlight
"where's the gun? where's the dope?"
The drive-by last week they try to pin, there's no hope
Wishin' i wasn't the victim, better yet the suspect
Waitin to run a warrant check
"what set you from? what side of town?
n***a like you must be ready to get down"
Hold up now, cause i start to speak my mind
I question the place of the ride and what time
"speak your mind one more time, you're through"
They found a bullet that i stashed in my shoe
f**, now they gon' tear up the car
Try to lock me in a cell that's as tight as a jar
But that's the way it's goin' down, the gang story's told
Tomorrow might be the same episode
Chorus...
Once upon a time n' the ghetto you're through
Once upon a time n' the ghetto i'm like you
Once upon a time n' the ghetto you're stuck
In the ghetto you're f**ed
Ah - press your luck
I said...
(verse 2)
Y'all can follow me, see how gangstas walk
Real k**as spit the strap and don't talk
Set trip, murder at night, we stalk
Yellow tape, bodies outlined in the chalk
I keeps my enemies close
Last night seen a life straight turn to ghost
My position is to roll through round-the-clock
Keeps watch on the one times down the block
You hear the click with the bang-bang, then you stop
Try to run, but the chest burn makes you drop
My comrads and criminals through hard time
I ride for y'all n***as, pop goes my nine
I do the crime, the point is mine
Look around the clockwork, it ain't hard to find
Any block, ward or burrough, you know what i speak
Your clients all cross the street if yo' product is weak
Chorus...
(verse 3)
Y'all fools come up short on the work and try to cheat us
Cold n***as, cold-a** world, catch the heaters
Burn you b**h-a** n***as, you can't beat us
Another life lost, you never will defeat us
Gun smoke's the outcome i predict
Locked down, never that, nickel slick
Try to cheat a n***a for dollars, "holla holla"
Is the sound that you make for cuttin' off the cake
Fake n***as, i hate yo' face, n***as
Seal your fate, no safety on the triggers
Ditches for the bodies i dump i dig bigger
Puttin mo' dick to ya than dirk diggler
Static cling, bust straps, you ears ring
Funeral day, the sad songs to sing
n***a shoulda known by now it's mines
Step now or charriots will swing
Chorus...
Hoo-bangin' one time, check it out
Hoo-bangin' two times, check it out
Compton one time, n***a
Compton two times, b**h
Geah