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