Ice Cube - Ghetto Vet(2008)

[00:04.53] Life
[00:15.36] Niggaz used to come and get me
[00:17.12] When it was time to disagree with an enemy
[00:18.96] Pass the Hennessey it gives me energy
[00:21.75] Packed the gat in the small of my back
[00:23.58] Where these niggaz at I clear the whole pack
[00:27.17] Talkin' shit 'cuz I'm down for my set I'm a vet
[00:29.86] Smokin' on a wet cigarette
[00:31.67] (Who these niggaz think they are?)
[00:33.46] (Wishin' on a ghetto star I represent my tar,)
[00:38.02] I start bustin' and they scatter like water bugs
[00:39.81] 'Cuz these Westside niggaz is harder thugs
[00:43.45] Enslave us but nothin' can save us from sportin' Ben Davis
[00:47.94] Shootin' at your neighbors
[00:48.88] ('Cuz sometimes I feel like a nut, don't give a fuck when I open ya up)
[00:52.55] Hot rocks fly from the back seat
[00:56.19] And busta ass niggaz run like a track meet
[00:58.82] And if you crawl in the middle bleed mo' than a little
[01:02.48] (What?)
[01:03.33] Killer king is the hospital, feelin' numb from the bullets I hum
[01:06.09] And when they hit, black mothers have fits, I don't give a shit
[01:09.65] Fool, I'm a vet you can bet
[01:11.43] That I could dance underwater and not get wet
[01:15.08] (Check it)
[01:16.07] It's rainin' bullets and I'm still there
[01:17.85] (Foe life)
[01:18.76] I'm still there
[01:19.66] My house shoes get wet from the dew on the grass
[01:23.25] Up early in the morning takin' out the trash
[01:25.96] Feelin' like a loser alcohol abuser
[01:28.62] Two youngsters roll up on a beach cruiser
[01:31.49] One on the pedals the other on the handle bars
[01:34.13] (What?)
[01:35.05] Tryin' be ghetto stars they said
[01:36.84] "Are you from the Westside, is it so?"
[01:38.68] I said, "Hell yea and who wanna know?
[01:41.33] (Me)
[01:42.22] In slow mo fo', fo' slugs face down in the mud
[01:45.84] Puddle full of blood left for dead
[01:48.50] The pain starts to spread now I can't feel my legs
[01:52.28] I meet Dr. Who, at King Drew Medical Center
[01:55.87] As I enter I.C.U.
[01:57.62] He said, "The bullet hit a nerve that was vital"
[02:00.33] I said, "I can't move my legs", he said,
[02:02.12] "Don't try to, now this ain't the end, my friend"
[02:05.71] ("What?")
[02:06.69] "But you'll probably never walk again"
[02:09.32] I sit there motionless holdin' this pain inside contemplating suicide
[02:13.94] At night, I jerk and jerk
[02:16.67] But my dick don't work, it don't even hurt
[02:19.35] (Damn)
[02:20.22] Now who'd ever thought a nigga rude as Ice Cube
[02:22.02] I be pissin' through a tube
[02:23.88] Fool, I'm a vet
[02:25.69] Fool, I'm a vet you can bet
[02:27.41] That I could dance underwater and not get wet
[02:30.13] (Check it)
[02:31.06] It's rainin' bullets and I'm still there
[02:32.96] Young ghetto nigga in a wheelchair
[02:35.69] Fuck a V A they need G A
[02:37.42] Gang hospital for a cripple now I'm drinkin' rippal
[02:41.08] Same corner same hood I'm still there
[02:43.78] With bandanas tied to my wheel chair
[02:46.46] To all the hood rat hoes, I'm fired
[02:49.13] They mad 'cuz my tongue get tired
[02:51.83] Now everybody wanna put they dope on me
[02:53.64] Sayin' I won't get searched by the L.A.P.D.
[02:56.47] I'm sitting on a doorway, duece five
[02:59.15] Dependin' on that to keep my ass alive
[03:01.89] I don't got bows but my arm's about a one-six
[03:05.58] With fuckin' legs, lookin' like tooth picks
[03:08.23] Sometimes I can't deal, got to beg the B G's to roll me up the hill
[03:12.76] (C'mon man)
[03:13.60] Put me on the porch, now I'm on the torch smokin' cocaine
[03:17.27] Just to maintain nutin' to gain, nutin' to lose
[03:20.98] And last night I couldn't make it to the bathroom
[03:24.51] Feelin' like a two year old, you can't get a sip from the brew I hold
[03:29.07] Nigga, its the only friend to a stranger, AKA handicap gang banger
[03:35.30] There's a lot in my life I regret becomin' a ghetto vet
[03:38.95] Fool, I'm a vet
[03:40.74] Fool, I'm a vet you can bet
[03:42.65] That I could dance underwater and not get wet
[03:45.37] (Check it)
[03:46.27] It's rainin' bullets and I'm still there
[03:48.04] Young ghetto nigga in a wheelchair
[03:50.77] Fool, I'm a vet you can bet
[03:53.47] That I could dance underwater and not get wet
[03:56.18] (Check it)
[03:57.03] It's rainin' bullets and I'm still there
[03:58.83] Young ghetto nigga in a wheelchair
[04:02.58] Life
[04:06.16] Yea
[04:07.02] Life
[04:11.57] Yea
[04:12.42] Life, life
[04:21.46] Dedicated to all the ghetto vets
[04:26.00] For every nigga that done took one for the hood
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