[Intro/Chorus: 2Pac]

Say he wanna be

Shorties gonna be a Thug
Said he wanna be
One day he's gonna be

Said he's wanna be
Shorties gonna be's a Thug
Said he's gonna be

One day he gonna be
Say he wanna be
Shorties gonna be a Thug

Said he gonna be
One day he's gonna be
Said he wanna be

Shorties gonna be a Thug

[Verse One: 2Pac]


He was a nice middle class ^!$$%
But nobody knew the evil he'd do When he got a little bigger

Get off the final blaze
While puffing on a Newport
plottin' on a another way to catch a case

Was only sixteen, yet convicted as a felon
With a bunch of old ^!$$%s
But you the only one who ain't telling

I tell you it's a cold world, stay in school
You tell me its a man's world, play the rules
And fade fools, 'n break rules until we major

Blaze up, getting with hoes through my pager
Was raised up, commencing to money makin' tactics
It's getting drastic, ^!$$%s got automatics

My fingers on the trigga, Tell the lord
To make way for another straight Thug ^!$$%
I'm sitting getting buzzed, looking for some luv

from the homies, cuz shorty wanna be a Thug

[Chorus]


[Verse Two: 2Pac]


Straight from the Hall to the Penn
Adolescent ^!$$% scaling weight and standing Six feet Ten
He carried weight like a Mack truck

Gonna bust on some playa haters
if the mutha $#&@as act tuff
Then thats when the lethal weapon with the razor

This little ^!$$% smoking weed and getting blazed up
No one could figure, when the guns blast pull the trigga
Could take the life of a young ^!$$% guns bigger

No mother and father, you see, the ^!$$%s all alone
Old timers my role model, the war zone
Released with this game 'til its a part of me

My heart don't beat no fear and it ain't hard to see
The future is looking dim
I'm trying to make a profit out of living in this sin

I'm in the dark getting buzzed, looking for some love
out with the homies, cuz shorty wanna be a Thug


[Chorus]

[Outro: 2Pac]


Shorty gonna be a thug


You little bad $$# ^!$$%, to the young ^!$$%s
gotta stay sharp ^!$$%, play your part
you got plenty of time (you bad mutha $#&@as)

You only get three mistakes, then thats life, big baby (^!$$%s craaazy)
watch the signs
Damn, you ain't but sixteen ^!$$%?

Sixteen?!
That's a bad mutha$#&@er