You ain't that ya Choose the friends You ain't that now make your life end Come it
You around the town like you a big man But you never know now that always a bigger man You sling the M-16 and the M-1 But you don't know you're doing, never learned to handle one
But true, all you friend you a gangster While your mother tried to warn you from certain So when you in room, you're playing with your Mac-10 Fully automatic, just you and a friend You're aw dey mirror like you a gangster clown But the Mac-10 go off and friend go down
Uh oh, what you gonna do Uh oh, they gonna blame you Uh oh, me what you gonna say Uh oh, look, them you away with it
Your father telling you "Now son just go to Don't go acting like no and don't go acting too cool" You get to the school, meet up with the bunch Just a group of kids with no names taking lunch
You join the click you wanna meet some girls And you want a little prestige in your school world One day you're walking with crew along the road And a member of your crew out a gun and unload
Him shoot a car and all you run far You and your friends laughing like you a You get home and you thinking it was And a cop you there with a warrant for your arrest
Them ask, "Who shot the gun while you down the street? Didn't you see the boy there in the back seat sleep? Now the boy dead, we want to from you Who the car up, are we gonna take you?"
Uh oh, now what you gonna do Uh oh, boy, them gonna you Uh oh, now tell me you gonna say Uh oh, look, cutting you away Come it
You that tough ya Choose the friends You that tough ya Don't your life end Come it
White kids, you in the whitest part of town You are a kid but you know, you hang around So you and your friends thinking that you are all you see a youth walk by and yes the youth is black
One kid say "Hey, what you doing on the We don't no niggers here unless he is a cop" So the kid pull out a big bat And slap him with the bat just because the kid was black
Now the kid fell down but alive So he reach in his and pulled out a four-five Pop, one drop and everyone run Out of all the white kids now you the one You start cry 'cause now you die And it's all because what friends did to this guy
Uh oh, what you gonna do Uh oh, he blame you somehow Uh oh, you think you gonna say? Uh oh, now cutting you away, check Come it
You that tough now Choose the right You ain't that now Don't make your end with it
You ain't tough now the right friends You that tough now make your life end