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Why We Thugs Lyrics By Ice Cube

    yeah every hood’s the same
    every hood’s the same come on

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    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us

    i’m from the land of the gang bang
    since i was little ain’t a goddamn thang changed
    its the same old same
    bush run shit like saddam hussein
    i cock and aim clinically insane
    to deal with this bullshit daytoday
    if i sell some yay or smoke some hay
    you bitches wanna throw me up in pelican’s bay
    call me an animal up in the system
    but who’s the animal that built this prison
    who’s the animal that invented lowerlivin’
    the projects thank god for russell simmons
    thank god for sugarhill
    i’m putting a different kind of steel up to my grill
    y’all know what it is scared for your own kids
    how these ghetto niggas taken over showbiz

    hook
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us

    it’s boys in the hood it’s toys in the hood
    y’all wanna know why there’s noise in the hood
    cause there’s drugs in the hood thugs in the hood
    nigga killed a crip and a blood in the hood
    cause when niggas get tribal
    it’s all about survival nobody liable
    i got caught by fiveo
    grandmama came to court with her bible
    but when the judge hit the gavel
    now i’m too far from my family to travel
    i just came unraveled
    socked the da before i got gaffled
    owned by ca state property
    just like the year fifteen fifty three
    looking for me a oneway ticket out
    don’t understand what’s so hard to figure out

    hook
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us

    damn i can’t take the pressure
    pulled the 44 up out the dresser
    grabbed the weight up out the closet
    popo coming but i’m scared to toss it
    y’all know what happened last time i lost it
    can’t tell you niggas what the fuckin’ boss did
    d game got a nigga exhausted
    gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
    twenty years for what
    breaking these laws that’s so corrupt
    taking these halls and fillin’ them up
    some powder keg shit that’s about to erupt
    aye y’all i’m about to be stuck
    until the year two thousand what the fuck
    in the hood don’t press your luck
    cause these motherfuckers will set you up word up

    hook
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us
    they give us guns and drugs
    then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
    they wanna count the slugs
    then come around here and fuck with us

    every hood’s the same every hood’s the same
    every hood’s the same every hood’s the same
    every hood’s the same stop trippin on it
    every hood’s the same every hood’s the same
    every hood’s the same every hood’s the same
    every hood’s the same

    Artist: Ice Cube

    Year: 2006

    Decade: 00s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 338