Hood Mentality

[Intro: Keith David]

The hood mentality is a crippling disease that attacks your nervous system

It makes you nervous of the system

Gangsters 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

[Verse 1: Ice Cube]

Fuck school nigga, I'mma be a dope dealer

I'mma be a killer, yep a urban guerrilla

I'mma 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 niggas smell, keep coming 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

Gunning niggas down cause they don't got the right clothes

Hit the wrong person cause we shoot just like hoes

First I was blood thirsty, Mister Mister Controversy

Now I wanna beg for mercy, should have took my ass to Berkeley

[Chorus]

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?

[Verse 2: Ice Cube]

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 thinking, fuck that thinking

Fuck them Lincolns, I want Franklins

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

I'm gon' be that little fool coming 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, moving 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

[Chorus]

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?

[Verse 3: Ice Cube]

Fuck school nigga, they ain't trying 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 fucking elf

No kid left behind but he get the runaround

Can't you motherfuckers see that they trying 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 Gayle

I'd rather have my ass kissed up in Bloomingdale

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

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

[Chorus]

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?