[Ice Cube]
$#&@ school ^!$$%, I'ma be a dope dealer
I'ma be a killa, yep a urban guerrilla

I'ma stack scrilla, yeah buy me a villa
Sell a 5-0 to my auntie Priscilla
I don't give a $#&@ that she look like "Thriller"

Hit that %#@! one more time and $#&@ around and kill her
Cause I got the heart of a Pittsburgh Steeler
Black ^!$$% draped in gold, with a nine milla

Love money, love jail, love that penitentiary mail
Love the way these ^!$$%z smell, keep comin' back, can't you tell?
Love to see my mama cry, love to see my babies struggle

Love to see my woman juggle nuts 'cause she got to hustle
I don't give a $#&@ how my life go
Now I'm a slave man to this caveman without Geico

Everybody wanna call Michael a psycho
But he ain't never came through the hood with a rifle
Gunnin' ^!$$%z down 'cause they don't got the right clothes

Hit the wrong person 'cause we shoot just like hoes
First I was blood thirsty, Mr.-Mr. Controversy
Now I wanna beg for mercy, should have took my $$# to Berkeley


[Chorus - X2]
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality

How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?


[Ice Cube]
$#&@ school ^!$$%, if I grow a little taller

Everybody tell me I'm gon' do it, I'm gon' be a baller
So $#&@ that thinkin', $#&@ that thank and $#&@ them Lincoln's, I want Franklin's
Come back through here with my crew, I'm gon' have my own shoe

I'm gon' be that little fool comin' in your living room
Starting point guard ^!$$%, fresh out of middle school
Either it's the NBA or it's the NFL

I don't know what else I can do to keep my $$# up out of jail
I wanna be like Tiger Woods, swing that club, make you sick
(I wanna be like Pacman Jones), (I wanna be like Michael Vick)

I wanna be like Barry Bonds, (I wanna be like O.J. Simpson)
Leave this field, leave this prison, tell you mother$#&@ers where to kiss 'em
I wanna be all broke up, movin' all old and slow

I wanna be a alcoholic just like Broadway Joe
I wanna be a sideshow, kinda like Iron Mike
Used to have a few Bentleys, now I just ride a bike


[Chorus - X2]
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality

How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?


[Ice Cube]
$#&@ school ^!$$%, they ain't tryin' to educate me

All they give a $#&@ is what I memorized lately
I'm gon' have to teach myself, clock that money, get that wealth
I wanna be like Santa Claus, I don't wanna be no $#&@in' elf

No kid left behind but he get the run-around
Can't you mother$#&@ers see that they tryin' to dumb us down?
Don't trust the government, President is for sale

He don't give a $#&@ about a ^!$$%, just a oil well
Sell crack, go to jail, bust a rap, go to hell
Do I got to sell my soul if I wanna go to Yale?

Go kiss Oprah's $$# if you wanna be Gail
I'd rather have my $$# kissed up in Bloomingdale
You can go be a pimp, you can go be a hoe

But you only gon' get paid off what you know
If you don't know %#@!, then you can't work for me
Cause you read your first book in the penitentiary


[Chorus - X2]
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality

How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the $#&@ we supposed to change our reality?