Ice Cube - The Product(2003)

[00:22.42] I was told, cause I didn't witness the whole act
[00:24.18] In and out was the movement of the bozack
[00:26.78] It was hot and sweaty and lots of pushin
[00:28.90] Then the nut came gushin
[00:30.90] And it was hell tryin to bail to the ovary
[00:33.67] With nuttin but the Lord lookin over me
[00:35.64] I was white with a tail
[00:37.26] But when I reached the finish line, young black male!
[00:39.62] One cell made two, and two cells made fo'
[00:42.05] And so on, so now I'm a embryo
[00:44.75] Then I got a hunch
[00:46.08] That I'ma be on lockdown, for nine months
[00:48.57] Chillin, with my mother to guide me
[00:50.96] And nuttin but a stomach to hide me
[00:53.27] From all that worry and bullshit
[00:55.26] Nine months later, I elbow pull and kick
[00:57.02] Cause my time is up and I don't care
[00:59.31] With one big push, I'm outta there
[01:01.65] June 15th, it's just my luck
[01:03.64] In 1969, a nigga is the product
[01:05.88] "Ghetto ass nigga, you ain't shit,
[01:07.75] And you ain't gon' never be shit!"
[01:14.89] I learned how to walk and talk and all that
[01:16.82] They put me in school, but it don't matter
[01:18.99] Cause I'm sittin in history
[01:20.73] Learnin bout a sucker, who didn't give a fuck about me
[01:24.08] They try to shape us
[01:25.15] But I know Uncle Sam is a motherfuckin rapist
[01:27.43] So I stopped payin attention
[01:29.67] Ice Cube, headed, straight to detention
[01:32.17] Fuck that shit, I roam the hallways
[01:34.15] I'm sent home and I don't got all A's
[01:36.86] A high school dropout
[01:38.46] My father had beef so I tried to knock pops out
[01:41.35] But I got tossed, he's the boss
[01:43.36] I'm out of there and mad cause I lost
[01:45.62] Now bein on my own is a factor
[01:47.69] So I become, the neighborhood jacker
[01:50.13] Gimme your car, run your jewels
[01:51.75] Makin a livin robbin fools
[01:53.94] And if I let my nine rang out
[01:56.18] You know, it'll make your brains hang out
[01:58.53] So what's your fate?
[01:59.52] Am I the nigga you love, or the one you love to hate?
[02:02.24] The wrong answer is said, the nigga fled
[02:03.80] I pump lead, now he's in a puddle of red
[02:06.68] And if you got a buck, you're shit out of luck
[02:08.77] Stuck up by the motherfuckin product
[02:11.22] "Uh-uh motherfucker you gots to get a job
[02:13.14] If you wanna stay in my motherfuckin house"
[02:15.52] "Many young men reject the traditional values
[02:17.92] That are important to their parents.
[02:19.19] Church, school and family
[02:20.81] Have been replaced by street, turf, and gang."
[02:28.33] Twenty-one now, and paid in full
[02:31.27] Feelin bad, from all the shit I pulled
[02:33.55] On people back in the day
[02:35.32] Plus, I got a little baby on the way
[02:37.62] So I'm tryin to go straight
[02:39.48] I'm with my baby's momma, out on a date
[02:41.89] Til the punk ass cops ran my plate
[02:44.00] Now I'm on a bus upstate
[02:45.83] "Oh, the young nigga done caught a case!"
[02:48.16] "Sittin in the mess hall, sayin my grace" -> LL Cool J
[02:50.46] Sent to a concrete hoe-house
[02:52.49] Where all the products go, no doubt
[02:54.22] Yo momma, I gotta do eleven
[02:56.38] Livin in a five by seven
[02:58.78] Dear baby, your man's gettin worn out
[03:01.06] Of seein young boys gettin they assholes torn out
[03:03.53] And then he got shanked with a spoon
[03:06.13] And he was 'sposed to get out soon
[03:07.44] Is it my fault, he was caught in production
[03:09.77] Where a young black life means nothin
[03:12.25] Just because, I didn't want to learn your grammar
[03:14.89] You say I'm better off in the slammer
[03:16.78] And it's drivin me batty
[03:18.43] Cause my little boy, is missin daddy
[03:20.96] I'm ashamed, but the fact is
[03:22.70] I wish pops let me off on the mattress
[03:25.37] Or should I just hang from the top bunk
[03:27.58] But that's goin out like a punk
[03:29.81] My life is FUCKED!
[03:31.67] But it ain't my fault, cause I'm the motherfuckin product
[03:34.30] "He ain't shit"
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