Mr. Criminal - Music to Me lyrics

Back when I was growing up
Eazy-E, Dr dre, MC Ren
And then NWA were blowing up
Fuck the police, had it sewn up
Middle fingers to the law
Everybody throw it up
Back when Ice Cube left with it
Young started Ice T, made the feds
Take em off the charts
And Too $hort had em screaming out "BITCH"
And had the whole west
Coast banging out hit's

I started banging around the same time
Dre drop The Chronic
By the time Doggystyle dropped I was
A smokeaholic puffing on California's bombest
I had 20 in the looneys, had 5 on it
I was raised in the days of AKs
And homies posted up in them
Alleys with spray paint


And gangsta rap will just describe
How us gangstas act
Smoking up on a sack, banging Roger & Zapp

This is music to me
The soundtrack to my life helping me
Make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me
A way to reminisce smoking out
Making music like this
This is music to me, it's
Something I'm addicted to
Can't you tell in this music
That I'm giving you
This is music to me, it helped
Me come from nothing to something
Giving everybody something thats bumping

Now alot rappers got down
Representing kept it true
But up until that point
Now get a brown point of view
Then Lighter Shade came
And everybody bumped it
"Chillin at the park on a Sunday Night"
I loved it
Then Kid Frost came and hit em with "La Raza"
Slowly opened up doors now Lil Rob watcha
Then Proper Dos came with underground heat
We're at it again with Frank V and Ernie G

These were the things that I bumped coming
Up on my neighborhood smoking on skunk
These were the songs I used to
Bang to, slang caine to
Act up and go insane to
This is the soundtrack to my life putting in
Work and straight smashing through the nights
I used to think of rhymes myself
Just to escape the sights
Turn the system up and close my eyes

This is music to me
The soundtrack to my life helping me
Make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me
A way to reminisce smoking out
Making music like this
This is music to me, it's
Something I'm addicted to
Can't you tell in this music
That I'm giving you
This is music to me, it helped
Me come from nothing to something
Giving everybody something that's bumping

I used to love music so much
I use to sit in front of
The radio listen to 923
And 106 on the stereo had
A cassette all ready in the tape deck
Push and record on different tracks
I get couldn't afford to get
But now shit's change I make my own music
In my own studio produce my own shit
I make fools head bob, from France to Japan
Italy and Vietnam and back to the west coast
Where the music that influence me
Is still the best though

It's the new west breed Mr
Muthafucking Criminal from the HPG
This is music to me my heaviest
Addiction from morning to the night
I'm stuck in a position
Where music constantly flowing
Through my head, haha yea but at least I'm
Getting bread from it

This is music to me
The soundtrack to my life helping me
Make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me
A way to reminisce smoking out
Making music like this
This is music to me, It's
Something I'm addicted to
Can't you tell in this music
That I'm giving you
This is music to me, It helped
Me come from nothing to something
Giving everybody something that's bumping