Back when i was growing up Eazy-e, dr. dre, mc ren And then NWA were blowing up f** the police, had it sewn up Middle finger to the law Everybody throwin up, Back when ice cube left with it Young started ice-t made the feds Take em off the charts And to short had em screaming out "b*tch" And had the whole west coast bangin out hits I started banging around the same time dre drop the chronic by the time doggystyle drop out was a smokeaholic puffin on california bombest I had 20 in the lue's had 5 on me I raised in the days of vaca's And homies posted up in the alley with spray paints And gangsta rap will just describe How us gangstas act Smokin up on a sack bangin roger & zapp (hook) This is music to me The soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights This is music to me Ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this This is music to me Its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you This is music to me It help me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something thats bumping (verse 2) Now alot rappers got down Representing kept it true But up until that point not yet Ah brown point of view Then lighter shade came Then everybody bump it Chillin at the park on ah sunday nights i love it then kid frost came And hit em with "la raza" Slowly open them doors now lil rob watcha then proper dos came with "thunder ground heat" We're at it again with frank v and ernie g These were the things that i bump coming up on my neighborhood Smokin on skunk, these were the songs I use to bang to slang cang to Act up and go insane to This is the soundtrack to my life puttin in work and str8 smashing thru the nights I use think of rhymes myself Just to escape the sights turn the system up and close my eyes (hook) This is music to me The soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights This is music to me Ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this This is music to me Its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you This is music to me It help me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something thats bumping (verse 3) I use to love music so much I use to sit in front of the radio listen to 92.3 and 106 on the stereo had a ca**ette already in the tape deck push and record on different tracks I get couldnt afford to get But now sh**s change i make my own music in my own studio produce my own sh** I make fool's head bob from france to japan, italy and vietnam And back to the west coast Where the music that influence me is still the best dope Its the new west breed mr. muthaf**ing criminal from the hpg This is music to me my heaviest addiction from morning to the night Im stuck in ah position Where music gots me flowing thru my head Haha yea But at least im getting bread for it (hook) This is music to me The soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights This is music to me Ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this This is music to me Its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you This is music to me It help me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something thats bumping