When Will They Shoot? - Ice Cube
Verse One: God damn another fucking payback wit' a twist Them motherfuckers shot but the punks missed Ice Cube is out gunned what is the outcome? Will they do me like Malcolm? Cuz I bust styles new styles standing. . . Strong. . . while others run a hundred miles But I never run never will Deal wit' the devil wit' my mother fucking steel BOOM! Media try to do me But I was a Boy N the Hood before the movie, yeah Call me nigga, bigger than a spook But you the one that voted for Duke, motherfucker White man is something I tried to study But I got my hands bloody, yeah. They say I can sing like a Jaybird But nigga don't say the J-word. I thought they was bugging. . . Cuz to us Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven Burning our black skin Buy my neighborhood - then push the crack in Doing us wrong from the first day And don't understand why a nigga got an AK. Calling me an African-American like everything is fair again, shit Devil you got to get the shit right I'm black Blacker than a trillion midnights "Don't believe the Hype" was said in 88 by the great Chuck D Now they're trying to fuck me . . . {wit' no vaseline, just a match and a little bit of gasoline} Its a great day for genocide Thats the day all the niggas died They killed JFK in '63 So what the fuck you think they'll do to me? But I'm the O.G. and I bust back, boom boom Bust back, boom boom, Peel a cap, BOOM BOOM! Gimme room in the fire of the sun Hear the mack come Hear the black come Watch Jack run Motherfuckers can't gank me Fuck a devil, fuck a rebel, and a yankee Overrun and put the Presidency After needin that, I'm down wit' O.P.P. I met Farrakhan and had dinner And you ask if I'm a five-percenter, well. . . No, but I go where the brothas go Down with Compton Mosque, Number 54 Made a little dough, still
Artist: Ice Cube
Title: When Will They Shoot?