Hood Mentality Lyrics - Raw Footage - Ice Cube

Keith David: 

The hood mentality is a crippling disease 

That attacks your nervous system, it makes you nervous of the system 

Gangstas and hood rats are especially susceptible to this growth stunting mentality 

The hood is where I'm from, but it's not what I am 

The hood is where I'm from, but it's not what I am 

Ice Cube: 

Fuck school nigga, I'ma be a dope dealer 

I'ma be a killa, yep, a urban guerrilla 

I'ma stack scrilla, yeah, buy me a villa 

Sell a 5-0 to my auntie Priscilla 

I don't give a fuck that she look like "thriller" 

Hit that shit one more time and fuck around and kill her 

Cause I got the heart of a pittsburgh steeler 

Black nigga draped in gold, with a nine milla 

Love money, love jail, love that penitentiary mail 

Love the way these niggaz smell, keep comin' back, can't you tell? 

Love to see my mama cry, love to see my babies struggle 

Love to see my woman juggle nuts 'cause she got to hustle 

I don't give a fuck how my life go 

Now i'm a slave man to this caveman without geico 

Everybody wanna call Michael a psycho 

But he ain't never came through the hood with a rifle 

Gunnin' niggaz down 'cause they don't got the right clothes 

Hit the wrong person 'cause we shoot just like hoes 

First i was blood thirsty, mr.-mr. controversy 

Now i wanna beg for mercy, should have took my ass to berkeley 

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If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

Fuck school, nigga, if I grow a little taller 

Everybody tell me I'm gon' do it, I'm gon' be a baller 

So fuck that thinkin', fuck that thank and fuck them Lincoln's, I want franklin's 

Come back through here with my crew, I'm gon' have my own shoe 

I'm gon' be that little fool comin' in your living room 

Starting point guard nigga, fresh out of middle school 

Either it's the NBA or it's the NFL 

I don't know what else I can do to keep my ass up out of jail 

I wanna be like Tiger Woods, swing that club, make you sick 

(I wanna be like Pacman Jones), (I wanna be like Michael Vick) 

I wanna be like Barry Bonds, (I wanna be like O.J. Simpson) 

Leave this field, leave this prison, tell you motherfuckers where to kiss 'em 

I wanna be all broke up, movin' all old and slow 

I wanna be a alcoholic just like broadway joe 

I wanna be a sideshow, kinda like Iron Mike 

Used to have a few bentleys, now i just ride a bike 

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If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

Fuck school nigga, they ain't tryin' to educate me 

All they give a fuck is what I memorized lately 

I'm gon' have to teach myself, clock that money, get that wealth 

I wanna be like santa claus, I don't wanna be no fuckin' elf 

No kid left behind, but he get the run-around 

Can't you motherfuckers see that they tryin' to dumb us down? 

Don't trust the government, president is for sale 

He don't give a fuck about a nigga, just a oil well 

Sell crack, go to jail, bust a rap, go to hell 

Do i got to sell my soul if i wanna go to yale? 

Go kiss oprah's ass if you wanna be gail 

I'd rather have my ass kissed up in bloomingdale 

You can go be a pimp, you can go be a hoe 

But you only gon' get paid off what you know 

If you don't know shit, then you can't work for me 

Cause you read your first book in the penitentiary 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality? 

If you don't wanna shake that hood mentality 

How the fuck we supposed to change our reality?