Ice Cube, Keith David - Hood Mentality lyrics
[Ice Cube, Keith David - Hood Mentality lyrics]
The hood mentality is a crippling disease
That attacks your nervous system
It makes you nervous of the system
Gangsters and hood rats are especially
Susceptible to this grown-stunting mentality
The hood is where I'm from
But, it's not what I am
The hood is where I'm from
But, it's not what I am
Fuck school nigga, I'mma be a dope dealer
I'mma be a killer, yep a urban guerrilla
I'mma stack scrilla, yeah buy me a villa
Sell a 5-0 to my auntie Priscilla
I don't give a fuck that
She look like "Thriller"
Hit that shit one more time and
Fuck around and kill her
Cause, I got the heart
Of a Pittsburgh Steeler
Black nigga draped in gold, with a nine milla
Love money, love jail
Love that penitentiary mail
Love the way these niggas
Smell, keep coming back, can't you tell?
Love to see my mama cry
Love to see my babies struggle
Love to see my woman juggle nuts
Cause she got to hustle
I don't give a fuck how my life go
Now I'm a slave man to
This caveman without Geico
Everybody wanna call Michael a psycho
But he ain't never came through
The hood with a rifle
Gunning niggas down cause they don't
Got the right clothes
Hit the wrong person cause we
Shoot just like hoes
First I was blood thirsty
Mister Mister Controversy
Now I wanna beg for mercy
Should have took my ass to Berkeley
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
Fuck school nigga, if I grow a little taller
Everybody tell me I'm gon' do it
I'm gon' be a baller
So fuck that thinking, fuck that thinking
Fuck them Lincolns, I want Franklins
Come back through here with my crew
I'm gon' have my own shoe
I'm gon' be that little fool
Coming in your living room
Starting point guard nigga
Fresh out of middle school
Either it's the NBA or it's the NFL
I don't know what else I can do to
Keep my ass up out of jail
I wanna be like Tiger Woods, swing that club
Make you sick
(I wanna be like Pacman Jones, I
Wanna be like Michael Vick)
I wanna be like Barry Bonds
(I wanna be like OJ simpson)
Leave this field, leave this prison
Tell you motherfuckers where to kiss 'em
I wanna be all broke up
Moving all old and slow
I wanna be a alcoholic just like Broadway Joe
I wanna be a sideshow, kinda like Iron Mike
Used to have a few Bentleys
Now I just ride a bike
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
Fuck school nigga
They ain't trying to educate me
All they give a fuck is
What I memorized lately
I'm gon' have to teach
Myself, clock that money, get that wealth
I wanna be like Santa Claus
I don't wanna be no fucking elf
No kid left behind but he get the runaround
Can't you motherfuckers see that they
Trying to dumb us down?
Don't trust the government
President is for sale
He don't give a fuck about a nigga
Just a oil well
Sell crack, go to jail, bust a rap
Go to hell do I got to sell my soul
If I wanna go to Yale?
Go kiss Oprah's ass if you wanna be Gail
I'd rather have my ass
Kissed up in Bloomingdale
You can go be a pimp, you can go be a ho
But, you only gon' get paid off what you know
If you don't know shit
Then you can't work for me
Cause you read your first
Book in the penitentiary
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
That attacks your nervous system
It makes you nervous of the system
Gangsters and hood rats are especially
Susceptible to this grown-stunting mentality
The hood is where I'm from
But, it's not what I am
The hood is where I'm from
But, it's not what I am
Fuck school nigga, I'mma be a dope dealer
I'mma be a killer, yep a urban guerrilla
I'mma stack scrilla, yeah buy me a villa
Sell a 5-0 to my auntie Priscilla
I don't give a fuck that
She look like "Thriller"
Hit that shit one more time and
Fuck around and kill her
Cause, I got the heart
Of a Pittsburgh Steeler
Black nigga draped in gold, with a nine milla
Love money, love jail
Love that penitentiary mail
Love the way these niggas
Smell, keep coming back, can't you tell?
Love to see my mama cry
Love to see my babies struggle
Love to see my woman juggle nuts
Cause she got to hustle
I don't give a fuck how my life go
Now I'm a slave man to
This caveman without Geico
Everybody wanna call Michael a psycho
But he ain't never came through
The hood with a rifle
Gunning niggas down cause they don't
Got the right clothes
Hit the wrong person cause we
Shoot just like hoes
First I was blood thirsty
Mister Mister Controversy
Now I wanna beg for mercy
Should have took my ass to Berkeley
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
Fuck school nigga, if I grow a little taller
Everybody tell me I'm gon' do it
I'm gon' be a baller
So fuck that thinking, fuck that thinking
Fuck them Lincolns, I want Franklins
Come back through here with my crew
I'm gon' have my own shoe
I'm gon' be that little fool
Coming in your living room
Starting point guard nigga
Fresh out of middle school
Either it's the NBA or it's the NFL
I don't know what else I can do to
Keep my ass up out of jail
I wanna be like Tiger Woods, swing that club
Make you sick
(I wanna be like Pacman Jones, I
Wanna be like Michael Vick)
I wanna be like Barry Bonds
(I wanna be like OJ simpson)
Leave this field, leave this prison
Tell you motherfuckers where to kiss 'em
I wanna be all broke up
Moving all old and slow
I wanna be a alcoholic just like Broadway Joe
I wanna be a sideshow, kinda like Iron Mike
Used to have a few Bentleys
Now I just ride a bike
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
Fuck school nigga
They ain't trying to educate me
All they give a fuck is
What I memorized lately
I'm gon' have to teach
Myself, clock that money, get that wealth
I wanna be like Santa Claus
I don't wanna be no fucking elf
No kid left behind but he get the runaround
Can't you motherfuckers see that they
Trying to dumb us down?
Don't trust the government
President is for sale
He don't give a fuck about a nigga
Just a oil well
Sell crack, go to jail, bust a rap
Go to hell do I got to sell my soul
If I wanna go to Yale?
Go kiss Oprah's ass if you wanna be Gail
I'd rather have my ass
Kissed up in Bloomingdale
You can go be a pimp, you can go be a ho
But, you only gon' get paid off what you know
If you don't know shit
Then you can't work for me
Cause you read your first
Book in the penitentiary
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality
How the fuck we supposed
To change our reality?
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