[Intro]
E-40 in this muthaf**a! (E-40!)
Coming back with that 1990s mob, n***a!
(Bring that sh** back, bruh!)
You understand that! Uh huh!
(Bring that sh** back, man!)
Look! Give it to them straight with that mob sh**, man!
You feel?!
[Verse 1]
Wrong side of the bed, that's how I woke up
Throwed in the head, I'm f**ed up
In the mind, I wished my daddy would have never bust a nut
Sometimes I wonder why I'm here
Never freeze up
Never stop in the streets like a deer
Wildlife smell fear
Get you out of here quicker than a spaceship
Get rid of sh**, sending it, living it, getting it
On the grind! Trippin' sometimes
50 cal., f** a 9
Take your kindness for weakness
Up and down the highway, I stay with a grudge
My family don't even hug
Born with a mug
My partner grind, he sell bud
"Only time I go to clubs is when I shoot up clubs,"
What the little homie from the hood said
Rode the back of the bus cause they was forced
Hung and dragged by a horse
When I say hung, not the jury and of course, of course
[Hook]
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(Man, I can't help it, bruh! I was dropped on the head when I was a baby, man!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(I gotta protect mine! So when I was 9, my uncle and them handed me a 9!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(All I hear is sirens and helicopters! Gotta tuck the kids in the bathtub! Bullets ain't got no names!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(It's either k** or be k**ed out here in the 'ville! These fools will k** you, then go to a club!)
[Verse 2]
Banana clip, 30..., extra clip
n***a sick
Two baby's momma's on welfare, Section 8, and WIC
Going through it, having hardship, starving
Use a broom, not a vaccum for the carpet
Couldn't try no benefit card, EBT, in the inner-city
You see more children in juvie than elementary
Look forward to the penetentary
Ready, be in there with my uncle and my daddy
Living life savvy, selling candy like a cavity
Catastrophe, tragedy
Please Momma, don't be mad at me
"I love you no matter what happens to me"
That's what I told my momma, reading the Bible
On the way to a revival
Creator or idol, good God Almighty
I hope I don't catch a body
It's sh**ty like potty
It ain't karate
But they'll kick you when you're down
That's why I keep a frown, keep a hundred-round
Plow a s**a down if I must
Put some cheese on a head, no crust
Split a n***a wig, no brush
None of you n***as I trust
Most of you n***as wear blush
p**y-a** n***as, no nuts
Poodle-a** n***as, muts
Telling on n***as on the hush
(Beeeyatch!)
[Hook]
(Everywhere I go, every time I bend a corner, them people pull me over and hem me up!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(Being from the ghetto, it was nights I didn't know where I was gonna lay my head! I had to sleep in the car!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(Smoking and drinking 24 hours around the clock! It ain't no love out there for a young black man!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(When little n***as get stressed out, they liable to play Russian roulette to see if it's they time to go!)
[Verse 3]
I need some weed, some drink to help me think
To take my mind off the pain
My Benjamin's baldheaded, they need some Rogaine
Going through it, a brotha trying to have some change
Know faces cause I don't remember names
Life can be good, but it can be a b**h
A lot of homeless people used to be rich
Used to have hella chips, paid
'Til the po-po and the batter-ram raid
White-collar crime the same thing too
They in the feds, I know a few
Fools in the federal, fools in the SHU
Locked in the bing, locked in the stew
Incarcerated like you, live it
That's why I always try and go visit
In the visiting room, picture it
COs talking to us like we illiterate
"I admit I'm not a graduate," that's what he say
But his grandmama taught him how to pray
Voted for Obama all day
Raised in the South; lived in L.A
Stubborn, born in the month of May
Everything gotta go her way
"Hella bling," that's what she say
She know I'm out here pushing yay
[Hook]
(Ain't no physical activity for the kids no more! Just video games!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(Every time I take a step forward, I end up taking three steps back, man!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(I don't know who to trust! sh**, I can barely trust myself!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!
(My momma made me think I was crazy just so I can get a SSI check!)
That's why I'm throwed like this!