You that tough ya Choose the friends You ain't tough now Don't make your end with it
You around the town like you a big man But you never now that there's always a bigger man You the M-16 and flash the M-1 But you know what you're doing, never learned to handle one
But true, all you thinking you a gangster While mother tried to warn you from certain danger So when you in your room, playing with your Mac-10 Fully automatic, just you and a friend You're aw dey mirror like you a gangster clown But the Mac-10 go off and your go down
Uh oh, what you do now? Uh oh, gonna blame you somehow Uh oh, me what you gonna say Uh oh, look, them you away with it
Your father telling you "Now son go to school go acting like no fool and don't go acting too cool" You get to the school, meet up with the bunch Just a group of kids with no names taking lunch
You join the click because you wanna some girls And you a little prestige in your little school world One day you're with your crew along the road And a of your crew pull out a gun and unload
Him shoot a car and all you run far You and your laughing like you a superstar You get home and you thinking it was And a cop you there with a warrant for your arrest
Them ask, "Who shot the gun while you walking the street? Didn't you see the little boy there in the back seat Now the boy dead, we want to know you Who shot the car up, are we gonna you?"
Uh oh, now what you do now? Uh oh, boy, them blame you Uh oh, now me what you gonna say Uh oh, look, them you away Come it
You that tough ya Choose the friends You ain't that ya make your life end Come it
White kids, you living in the whitest part of You are a kid but you know, you hang around So you and your friends that you are all that When you see a youth walk by and yes the youth is
One kid say "Hey, you doing on the block We don't want no here unless he is a cop" So the kid out a big baseball bat And them slap him the bat just because the kid was black
Now the kid fell down but still So he reach in his pants and pulled out a Pop, one friend and everyone run Out of all the white now you the only one You start cry now you gonna die And it's all because what friends did to this guy
Uh oh, what you gonna do Uh oh, he gonna you somehow Uh oh, what you think you say? Uh oh, now them cutting you away, with it
You ain't that now Choose the right You that tough now make your life end Come it
You ain't tough now the right friends You that tough now Don't make your end