[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



[Chorus - X2]

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?



[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 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



[Chorus - X2]

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?



[Ice Cube]

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



[Chorus - X2]

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?