2Pac - Young Niggaz(1995)

[00:05.19] I wanna dedicate this one to Robert 'Yummy' Sanderford
[00:09.14] And all other lil' young niggaz that's in a rush to be gangstas
[00:12.81] As a young nigga, I'm almost swellin in the wind
[00:15.99] Give anythang, to be that innocent again, when I was ten
[00:18.36] I didn't bang but I was hangin with the homies
[00:20.52] Tell them niggaz started slangin that they don't know me
[00:22.72] I got my hustle on, learned to ignore what couldn't pay me
[00:25.24] Lately I've been tryin to make a bill-ion, can you play me
[00:27.48] With that jealousy they need to miss me, don't sweat me
[00:30.04] If them cowards really want me, come get me, and even I
[00:32.48] Someday will die but I'm cautious, I'm fin' to ride
[00:35.34] Put down the top, now we flossin
[00:37.24] Hit the freeway, let the wind blow, drop the window
[00:39.59] Workin with a twenty sack of indo, feelin good
[00:41.79] Stop through the hood, grab the young thugs
[00:44.05] And I can't help but reminisce back when we slung drugs, know it's bad
[00:47.04] But all we had was our hopes and dreams
[00:49.11] Couldn't see unless we learned to slang dope to fiends
[00:51.23] As young niggaz
[00:53.86] He's the kind of G like everybody knows
[00:55.85] As a young nigga
[00:57.15] He's always G'd up, from head to toe
[00:59.60] My memories as a young nigga
[01:00.96] Always got it blown like Al Capone
[01:03.70] Young nigga
[01:05.59] He's the downest G I've ever known
[01:09.56] Back in Junior High, when we was barely gettin by, when daddy died
[01:13.08] That's when my momma started gettin high
[01:15.07] My neighborhood was full of drivebys, couldn't survive
[01:17.22] All our homies livin short lives, I couldn't cry
[01:20.12] Told my momma if I did die, just put a blunt in my casket
[01:22.47] Let me get my dead homies high
[01:24.16] Come follow me throughout my history, it's just
[01:26.54] Me Against the World stuck in misery; as a young nigga
[01:29.06] My only thing was to be paid
[01:31.41] Life full of riches avoid snitched cause they shady, back in the days
[01:34.56] We always found the time to play
[01:37.08] But that's before they taught them gangbangers how to spray
[01:38.86] Not just L.A., but in the Bay and in Chicago and even St. Louis
[01:41.55] Every stadium that I go, when will they change?
[01:43.73] Stuck in the game like a dumb nigga
[01:45.84] Remember how it was, to be a young nigga
[01:48.30] He's the kind of G like everybody knows
[01:50.98] As a young nigga
[01:53.14] He's always G'd up, from head to toe
[01:55.99] My memories as a young nigga
[01:58.03] Always got it blown like Al Capone
[02:00.78] Young nigga
[02:02.51] He's the downest G I've ever known
[02:05.76] I'm tellin you.
[02:09.45] . To be young, have your brains and have every? and all that
[02:13.47] Yo, y'all niggaz don't know how good you really do got it
[02:17.02] Muh'fuckers need to just calm down
[02:19.35] And peep what the fuck they wanna do for the rest of the life
[02:20.93] 'Fore you end your life before you BEGIN your life
[02:23.23] You dumb nigga
[02:25.94] Now that I'm grown, I got my mind on bein somethin
[02:28.30] Don't wanna be another statistic, out here doin nuttin
[02:30.41] Tryin to maintain in this dirty game, keep it real
[02:32.61] And I will even if it kills me, my young niggaz
[02:36.22] Break away from these dumb niggaz
[02:38.03] Put down the guns and have some fun nigga, the rest'll come nigga
[02:40.39] Fame is a fast thang, that gangbangin
[02:42.78] Puttin niggaz in a casket, murdered for hangin
[02:45.17] At the wrong place at the wrong time, no longer livin
[02:47.15] Cause he threw up the wrong sign, and every day
[02:50.50] I watch the murder rate increases, and even worse
[02:53.43] The epidemic and diseases, what is the future?
[02:55.24] The projects lookin hopeless, where
[02:57.86] More and more brothers givin up and don't care
[02:59.69] Sometimes I hate when brothers act up, I hit the weed
[03:02.18] And I proceed to blow the track up, for young niggaz
[03:04.70] He's the kind of G like everybody knows
[03:07.79] For these young niggaz
[03:09.56] He's always G'd up, from head to toe
[03:13.04] My memories as a young nigga
[03:14.29] He always got it blown like Al Capone
[03:17.09] Take it slow nigga, it's for the young niggaz
[03:18.93] He's the downest G I've ever known
[03:22.00] As a young nigga
[03:23.66] He's the kind of G like everybody knows
[03:26.29] He's always G'd up, from head to toe
[03:32.37] Memories as a young nigga
[03:34.99] He always got it blown like Al Capone
[03:38.74] He's the downest G I've ever known
[03:41.50] (Pac talking overlaps singing last four lines)
[03:43.41] This go out to the young thugs, the have-nots (you know)
[03:45.59] Little bad motherfuckers from the block (that's right)
[03:47.31] Them niggaz that's thirteen and fourteen
[03:49.92] Drivin Cadillacs, Benzes and shit (I see you boy)
[03:52.50] Young motherfuckin hustlers (make that money boy)
[03:54.73] Stay strong nigga
[03:57.95] You could be a fuckin accountant, not a dope dealer
[04:00.30] YouknowhatI'msayin? (Go to school nigga, go to school)
[04:02.02] Fuck around and, you pimpin out here
[04:03.52] You could be a lawyer (really doe)
[04:04.75] Niggaz gotta get they priorities straight
[04:06.32] (Don't see Johnny Cochran out in this motherfucker)
[04:07.76] Really doe. young niggaz. little RahRah (sup nigga)
[04:09.10] Especially my little cousins don't be no dumb guy
[04:10.39] (Don't be a dumb nigga, listen, young niggaz)
[04:11.75] Singers freestyle and skat to the end of the song
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