Static, Quik, you're not a gangster, not static
Some believe in love and believe in friends But, niggaz, like me believe in ends even when your bitch wants to trick around You the money's got you safe and sound
Now I'm 'bout to take it back to '84, I was fourteen back in the trees, West Side, if you please And, four-thirty-six, West was the spot With me, Wayne, Mike, Shot, Nookie, and Rock
Donzelly, if ya with me, than let shit, kick If your head ain't spinning from all them sticks 'Cause way back in the day used love a wet baggie Screaming, HORALE, ESE, with them laces on a
And you deny a hit from that Buddah, Tye round and round the driveway, now it's coming my way And I'm out at a young age And the whole spruce street was my
Peep, now back then I was in the eighth grade, But niggaz, my age was getting paid, Yeah, like that nigga, Zam or even young, They made they first million by the age of,
Like, Dan from Cedar block, him and Motor James from Piru Street, with boulders in peace, little Noopy, he didn't have to brag Rollin' to the grade in a Fint, '0' rag
Well, goddamn, how can I be I ask my sister, Jack for help and she told me, look around Nigga, they don't dope, it sells itself While they back and just collect the wealth
And now I'm thinking, ain't nothing fly, these dirty ass, khakis T-shirt dingy, tackie This could be a way to that little, funky, twenty dollars, that I earned then, is when I learned that
Some in Jesus, some believe in Allah But niggaz like me, believe in making 'Cause even when, yo, niggaz, wanna be You know the still good to you
Yes, yes Some believe in love and some in friends But niggaz like me, in making ends 'Cause even when, yo, bitch to trick around You know the money's got you and sound
Peep, I gets a dub on the first and fifteenth, for a So, instead of spending it up, I gave my money to Now she jump in the Regal and said, "I'll be back" When she came in, she put me with a plastic sack
I turned my forty into eighty and was my profit I'm keepin' my rocks in the house and not in my Sister, in the kitchen with some boiling water, baking soda powder, baby bottles, making more boulders
Checking a fat grip, rocks to tricks Donzelly, sticks, went and bought 'em a six And five-hundred, block, peach, thangs, ya see Moving gallon after gallon and key key
I'm you, I done, seen it all From, niggaz, hitting the Sherman and the out on the wall From cluckers, a hit so bad, they let there panties fall Teeth rotten, hair and whole checks, get blown
But then, I'm still breaking these pebbles Bam Bam Saved them, rocks, to the 'em, tic-toc I went from khakis to Sergio Teccini While my rocks is like the great Houdini
I bought a of clothes, all of my equipment And getting somthing new with each and shipment gets made and money gets spent And how these jealous acting, only makes it evident that
Some believe in Jesus, some believe in But niggaz me, believe in making dollars even when, yo, niggaz, wanna be untrue You know the money's good to you
Yes, yes Some believe in and some believe in friends But niggaz like me, in making ends 'Cause even when, yo, bitch wants to trick You the money's got you safe and sound
Check, now in 1981, moved to L.A. My niggaz, playa, Ham and Gina gave me a to stay On my way up from rock, bitches, starting to jock 'Cause my hair is getting longer and games, stronger
To pull my own weight, I and got me a job But by then, Ham and really started to squab weather, I should go or stay She told him either he or you go, we both was on our way
So, he moved and me with him on, two-thousand-one, Browning with playas, all around me, just astounding My nigga, pimpin, got staring with that hair an Rolling up and down the street in that, rag with Darren
Shaby, feathered, as he swerved In the 'E l Co-P, 6, park from the curve Big jam, L.A Mike, Darryl, on the bike That nigga Top Big Shane, and rolling up the weed
And hoes, come and go in and out door, leaving with some, nut in they mouth I'm making a living of pimpin' so you can't trip 'Cause even though, I God, I also love my grip
Some believe in Jesus, believe in Allah But like me, believe in making dollars 'Cause even when, yo, niggaz, wanna be You the money's still good to you
Yes, yes Some believe in love and some believe in But niggaz me, believe in making ends 'Cause even when, yo, bitch to trick around You the money's got you safe and sound
Ooh, yeah, and sound, yeah and sound, baby, ooh, yeah Safe and yeah, safe and sound
let you know, gotta let you know Gotta let you know, Compton's in the