I wanna dedicate this one to Robert 'Yummy' Sanderford
and all other lil' young n***az that's in a rush to be gangstas
As a young n***a, I'm almost ?swellin? in the wind
Give anythang, to be that innocent again, when I was ten
I didn't bang but I was hangin with the homies
tell them n***az started slangin that they don't know me
I got my hustle on, learned to ignore what couldn't pay me
Lately I've been tryin to make a bill-ion, can you play me
with that jealousy they need to miss me, don't sweat me
If them cowards really want me, come get me, and even I
someday will die but I'm cautious, I'm fin' to ride
Put down the top, now we flossin
Hit the freeway, let the wind blow, drop the window
Workin with a twenty sack of indo, feelin good
Stop through the hood, grab the young thugs
And I can't help but reminisce back when we slung d**, know it's bad
but all we had was our hopes and dreams
Couldn't see unless we learned to slang dope to fiends
as young n***az
He's the kind of G like everybody knows
As a young n***a
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n***a
Always got it blown like Al Capone
Young n***a
He's the downest G I've ever known
Back in Junior High, when we was barely gettin by, when daddy died
That's when my momma started gettin high
My neighborhood was full of drivebys, couldn't survive
All our homies livin short lives, I couldn't cry
Told my momma if I did die, just put a blunt in my casket
let me get my dead homies high
Come follow me throughout my history, it's just
_Me Against the World_ stuck in misery; as a young n***a
My only thing was to be paid
Life full of riches avoid snitched cause they shady, back in the days
We always found the time to play,
but that's before they taught them g**ners how to spray
Not just L.A., but in the Bay and in Chicago and even St. Louis
Every stadium that I go, when will they change?
Stuck in the game like a dumb n***a
Remember how it was, to be a young n***a
He's the kind of G like everybody knows
As a young n***a
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n***a
Always got it blown like Al Capone
Young n***a
He's the downest G I've ever known
I'm tellin you..
.. to be young, have your brains and have every ? and all that
Yo, y'all n***az don't know how good you really do got it
Muh'f**ers need to just calm down
and peep what the f** they wanna do for the rest of the life
'Fore you end your life before you BEGIN your life
You dumb n***a
Now that I'm grown, I got my mind on bein somethin
Don't wanna be another statistic, out here doin nuttin
Tryin to maintain in this dirty game, keep it real
and I will even if it k**s me, my young n***az
break away from these dumb n***az
Put down the guns and have some fun n***a, the rest'll come n***a
Fame is a fast thang, that g**nin
puttin n***az in a casket, murdered for hangin
at the wrong place at the wrong time, no longer livin
Cause he threw up the wrong sign, and every day
I watch the murder rate increases, and even worse
the epidemic and diseases, what is the future?
The projects lookin hopeless, where
more and more borhters givin up and don't care
Sometimes I hate when brothers act up, I hit the weed
and I proceed to blow the track up, for young n***az
He's the kind of G like everybody knows
For these young n***az
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n***a
He always got it blown like Al Capone
Take it slow n***a, it's for the young n***az
He's the downest G I've ever known
As a young n***a
He's the kind of G like everybody knows
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
Memories as a young n***a
He always got it blown like Al Capone
He's the downest G I've ever known
['Pac talking overlaps singing last four lines]
This go out to the young thugs, the have-nots (you know)
Little bad motherf**ers from the block (that's right)
Them n***az that's thirteen and fourteen
Drivin Cadillacs, Benzes and sh** (I see you boy)
Young motherf**in hustlers (make that money boy)
Stay strong n***a
You could be a f**in accountant, not a dope dealer
youknowhatI'msayin? (Go to school n***a, go to school)
f** around and, you pimpin out here
You could be a lawyer (really doe)
n***az gotta get they priorities straight
(Don't see Johnny Cochran out in this motherf**er)
Really doe.. young n***az.. little RahRah
(sup n***a) Especially my little cousins don't be no dumb guy
(Don't be a dumb n***a, listen, young n***az)
[singers freestyle and skat to the end of the song]