[Ice Cube]
Ha ha, that's my %#@!
Turn it up [echoes]

Uhh, yeah

I hear a beat like this, and think about growin up

House parties, with gangbangers showin up
Represent your hood, everybody throw it up
They say Cube get on the mic, ^!$$% blow it up

I used to lyrical, political
But now you want it sugarcoated like cereal
First I met Dre, then I met Yella (yessir)

Dr. Dre made me rap acapella
Me and Jinx did a show at Dudo's {?}
With K-Dee, I think it was two shows

Then Dre introduced me to E
Cruisin down the street in his red Jeep
He said, yo ^!$$%z we should flip it like this

Cause them _Boyz N the Hood_ like the gangsta %#@!
I put the pen to the pad, young ^!$$% was raw
And told the world how we felt about the law

It was real

[Chorus 2X: samples + (Cube)]

I see the happiness (all day every day)
I see the pain
Where am I (growin up in the hood)

Back down memory lane

[Ice Cube]

Oh %#@!, it's N.W.A.!
Them ^!$$%z on tour and they comin our way
Lil' Eminem is still tucked away

In that trailer park, just bumpin our tape
Jerry Heller tried to make his escape
I had to bounce, while other ^!$$%z got raped

Same ^!$$%z turned around and said $#&@ me
No !#@* YOU cause I'm down with Chuck D
And I'm 'bout to do a movie up, a classic

When I hit the screen, ^!$$% it was magic
Never thought I'd see Eazy in a casket
Thanks for everythang, that's on everythang

I learned a lot of game from you
I like your son, he got his name from you
I tell him everythang that he need to know

If he ask my advice, I won't think twice homey

[Chorus]


[Ice Cube]
From _Boyz N the Hood_, to _$%&^ 2_

Everybody wanna know my next move
Fans all around say "We love you Cube!"
I wanna take time to say I love you too

I love all my fans cause they know I'm a man
And not a little boy or some $#&@in play toy
A lot of ^!$$%z say I grew up on you

And let me know if anybody $#&@ wit'chu
Cause you talk a lot of %#@! about the red, black & blue
And how they treat a ^!$$% called Katrina, did you see her

White folks worry 'bout them $#&@in misdemeanor
While black people dyin in that God damn arena
Just because I'm actin ^!$$% never stop rappin

It's in my blood homey, I'ma keep the party crackin
Money keep stackin 'til they put me in a casket
Who you think you $#&@in wit? Here's another classic


[Chorus]


[Ice Cube]
I'm Ruthless, I'm Ruthless..
Street Knowledge..

Lench Mob..
Westside..
Uhh..


[Chorus - 1/2]