INTRO Icey Why they got to hate on me? (I don't know, I guess they love my swag, love my swag, love my swag) Ha ha who? Mike Jones! Who? Mike Jones! Who? Mike Jones! (? You a fool with this one) I got a question: (why they got to hate on me?) I wonder why (why they got to hate on me) ay, ay (why they got to hate on me) I wonder why (why they got to hate on me) ?? VERSE I I swear to god I came from nothing to something I ain't get no handouts I got mine from hustling Hustlin from nothing to something I had to get it no time to play with it, my money I was committed And when I got my paper, my paper, I split it When everybody ?? was down with it But all of a sudden everybody start hatin (why they hatin) I don't know, why everybody hatin' They see me on them 22s givin boys the blues When they see me shinin they don't have a clue They be like who is that? I be like Mike Jones! I'm like Pimp C - I got a +Pocket Full of Stones+ But it ain't work, homie it's my CD's And I sold about 2 million in the streets So why they hatin me? Cuz I pull up Jet Li With the eighty fos and fos on that new Bentley So I ask: CHORUS (Tanya Herron) Why they got to hate on me? Why they got to hate on me (I wonder why) why they got to hate on me? (I wonder why I wonder why) Why they got to hate on me? Why they got to hate on me? Why they got to hate on me? VERSE II I spent a half million in the city baby (how much) A half billion in the city baby '97 ? boxster know how much I spent I swear to god when it come to paper I ain't got no mint When people needed money they'd holla at me I swear to god when they needed it they holla'd at me Club ice age I put everyone on they feet Then they turn around and ? damn I see yall out there hatin on me But I got the world waitin on me They waitin on me why are they haiting on me I ask the lawd but I ain't trippin get inside the booth and press record I'm a g and these streets said that I ain't got to answer to nobody Especially the ones with no ? so far ahead that they can't catch up Why they wastin os on me tryin to set me up? CHORUS Repeats VERSE III Tell me, what have I done to you? What have I done to you To make you all hate on me ay ay What have I done to you what have I done to you To make yall hate on me They see me shinin in the limelight They see me shinin by myself and they say that I ain't right Why is it that I had to grind on my own baby V12 yeah I'm rollin on that chrome baby I know he mad cuz he lyin ? my name in your brain I pull a wide frame I'm about to take your dame I pull a piece of chain Pinky ring to the turning lane Why they hate on me mane No need to explain CHORUS Repeats Mike Jones Mike Jones Mike Jones Ice Age Entertainment