Static, Quik, you're not a gangster, we're not
Some believe in love and believe in friends But, niggaz, me believe in making ends 'Cause even when your wants to trick around You know the 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 Spruce was the With me, Wayne, Mike, Shot, Nookie, and Rock
Donzelly, if ya with me, than let shit, kick If your head spinning from dippin' all them sticks 'Cause way back in the day used love a wet baggie Screaming, HORALE, ESE, them laces on a caddy
And you couldn't deny a hit from Buddah, Tye Going and round the driveway, now it's coming my way And I'm zoned out at a age And the whole street was my stage
Peep, now then I was in the eighth grade, steady But niggaz, my age was getting paid, Yeah, like that nigga, Zam or even young, They made they first by the age of, twenty-two
Like, Dan from Cedar block, him and little James Piru Street, with them 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 some help and she told me, look Nigga, they don't dope, it sells itself While they kick back and just collect the
And now I'm thinking, ain't fly, about these dirty ass, khakis dingy, prowings tackie This could be a way to flip little, funky, twenty dollars, that I earned then, is when I learned that
Some believe in Jesus, some 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 in friends But niggaz like me, believe in making 'Cause even when, yo, bitch wants to around You know the money's got you safe and
Peep, I gets a dub on the first and fifteenth, for a So, instead of it up, I gave my money to Jack Now she jump in the and said, "I'll be right back" When she came in, she put me down a plastic sack
I my forty into eighty and that was my profit I'm my rocks in the house and not in my pocket Sister, Jackie in the kitchen with some water, baking soda powder, baby bottles, making more boulders
Checking a fat grip, slanging to tricks Donzelly, dippin' sticks, and bought '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 pass out on the From cluckers, wanting a hit so bad, they let panties fall Teeth rotten, hair gone and whole checks, get
But then, I'm still breaking these pebbles Bam Bam Saved them, splitting rocks, to the 'em, I from wearing khakis to Sergio Teccini While my rocks is like the great Houdini
I bought a gang of clothes, all of my And somthing new with each and every shipment Money gets made and money gets And how these jealous niggaz acting, only it evident that
Some believe in Jesus, some in Allah But niggaz like me, believe in making 'Cause even when, yo, niggaz, wanna be You know the money's still to you
Yes, yes Some in love and some believe in friends But niggaz like me, believe in making even when, yo, bitch wants to trick around You know the money's got you 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 my hair is getting longer and games, getting stronger
To pull my own weight, I and got me a job But by then, Ham and Gina really started to About weather, I should go or She him either he goes or you go, we both was on our way
So, he and took me with him on, two-thousand-one, Browning with playas, all around me, just astounding My nigga, pimpin, Carl got staring with 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 the curve Big jam, L.A Mike, Darryl, on the bike That Top Big Shane, and Tweed rolling up the weed
And hoes, come and go in and out Revolving door, leaving with some, nut in they I'm making a living of pimpin' so you fools trip 'Cause though, I love God, I also love my grip
Some believe in Jesus, some in Allah But niggaz like me, in making dollars 'Cause even when, yo, niggaz, wanna be You the money's still good to you
Yes, yes believe in love and some believe in friends But niggaz like me, believe in ends 'Cause when, yo, bitch wants to trick around You know the got you safe and sound
Ooh, yeah, safe and sound, and sound, baby, ooh, yeah Safe and sound yeah, safe and
Gotta let you know, gotta let you Gotta let you know, in the house