[Intro/Bridge]
If Pirus and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song

Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear


[ScHoolBoy Q]
?YOCK! YOCK! YOCK! YOCK!?


[Hook]
?Man down
Where you from, ^!$$%??

?$#&@ you, where you from my ^!$$%?
?No, where you from, my ^!$$%??
?Where your grandma stay, huh, my ^!$$%??

This m.A.A.d city like, ?Run, my ^!$$%.?

[Verse 1]

Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine
This is cul de sac and plenty congnac and major pain

Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighin on your brain
It was Me, O-Boog[?], and Yaya[?] watchin Lucky ride down Rosecrantz
It got ugly, wavin yo hand out the window. Check yo self

Uh, warriors and Conans
Hope euphoria can slow dance with society
The tribe received the first one to get killed

Seen a light-skinned ^!$$% with his brains blown out
At the same crib they stay, where ? hang out
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it

But ever since that day, I was lookin at him different
That was back when I was nine
Joey packed the nine

Packed to stand on every porch was fine
We adapt to crime
Pack a van with four guns at a time

With the sliding door
$#&@ is up?
$#&@ you shootin for if you ain't walkin up?

You $#&@in punk
Pickin up the $#&@in pump
Pickin off you suckers

Suck a dick or die or sucker punch
Or warn the bullets comin from
AK's

AR's
?Aye y'all. Duck.?
That's what momma said when we was eatin the free lunch

Aw man
God damn
All hell broke loose

You killed my cousin back in '94. $#&@ yo truce
Now crawl yo head in that noose
You wind up dead on the news

Ain't no peace treaty, just pieces
BG's up to pre-approve
Bodies on top of bodies

IV's on top of IV's
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
When you hop on that trollie

Make sure your colors correct
Make sure you're cornbread, or they'll be callin your mother collect
They say the governor collect

All of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that %#@! ain't no threat
You movin backwards if you suggest that you sleep wit a Teck

Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess
M.A.A.d city


[Hook]
?Man down
Where you from, ^!$$%??

?$#&@ you.?
?No, where you from, my ^!$$%??
?Where your grandma stay, huh, my ^!$$%??

This m.A.A.d city like, ?Run, my ^!$$%.?

[Intro/Bridge]
If Pirus and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song

Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear

[ScHoolBoy Q]
?YOCK! YOCK! YOCK!?


(static)

[MC Eiht]
Wake yo punk $$# up!

It ain't nothin but a Compton thang
Chyea
Real simple and plain
I'mma teach you some lessons about the street
It ain't nothin but a Compton thang

Chyea
How we do

[Verse 2]
Fresh outta school cause I was a high school grad