Here's a little something about a brother like me Never should've been let out the penitentiary Ice Cube would like to say That I'm a crazy mother from around the way Since I was a youth, I smoked weed out Now I'm the type of punk that you read about Doing a crime or two, that's what the hell I do You don't like how I'm living? This is a crew, and I'm in it My man Trey'll knock you out in a minute With the right, left, right, left, you're toothless And then you say, damn, they ruthless We make you say it again, again N.W.A's messing up the program And then you realize we don't care We don't just say no, we're too busy saying yeah About drinking straight out the 8-bottle Tell the truth, do I look like a role model? To a kid looking up to me Life ain't nothing but girls and money Cause I'm the type of brother that's built to last We had some in the present, some in the past But I don't give a damn cause I keep bellin' Yo, tell them what they're yelling Gangsta! Gangsta! Stop what they're yelling It's not about a salary It's all about reality Gangsta! Gangsta! He'll tell you exactly how he feel And don't you wanna think back Homies all standing around just hanging Some dope dealing, some gangbanging We decide to roll and we deep See a sucker on dates and we creep Real slow, and before you know I have my AK pointed in the window Check it in, punk, or I might blast He got scared and hit the gas We tried to catch him, but you all know You can't catch a 5.0, so We headed right back to the fort Sweating all the girls in the biker shorts We didn't get no play from the ladies With six thugs in the car, are you crazy? She was scared, and it was showing We all said, oh, we inch, and kept going To the hood, and we was finned to Look for something else to get into Like a new female, or in fact A bum rush, but we call it Rat Pack On a sucker for nothing at all Ice cube will go stupid when I'm full of 8-ball I might stumble, but still won't lose Now I'm dressed in the county blues Cause I'm the type of brother that's built to last We had some in the present, some in the past But I don't give a damn, cause I keep bailing, bailing Yo, tell them what they're yelling Wait a minute, wait a minute, cut this s*** Man, what you gonna do now? What we're gonna do right here is go back How far are you going back? Way back As we go a little something like this Hit it Here's a little gangster, short in size A t-shirt Levi's is his only disguise Built like a tank, yet hard to hit Ice cube and Eazy-E call rockin' it Well, I'm Eazy-E, the one they're talking about Sucker tried to roll a dice and just dropped out Police tried to roll, so it's time to go I creeped away real slow and jumped in the 6-4 With a diamond in the back, Simon in the top Digging the scene with the gangsta lean Cause I'm the E, I don't sling or bang I just knock suckers out like it ain't no thing And all the ladies, you know I'm talking to you We love you, Eazy Yeah, I love you too, because you see You know I gotta be legit So let me tell you stupid suckers who you're messing with Cause I'm the type of brother that's built to last We had some in the present, some in the past But I don't really care, cause I keep bellin', bellin' Yo, tell them what they're yelling Gangsta, gangsta, that's what they're yelling It's not about a salary, it's all about replay Gangsta, gangsta, he'll *** you and yours And anything that gets in his way Gangsta, gangsta, that's what they're yelling It's not about a salary, it's all about replay Gangsta, gangsta, he'll just call you a lowlife motha***a And talk about your funky ways