You Don't Work, U Don't Eat - WC And The Maad Circle

featuring Ice Cube, MC Eiht, Jay Dee 

"This afternoon we want to talk about" 
"Now I want you brothers to dig where we coming from" 

[WC] 
Five yers ago when I was in high school 
No bills to pay, I used to say to myself "Life is cool" 
I had a roof over my head and a part-time job 
Slanging at OB's birdstand 
Washington High was the school I attended 
Til '87 graduation came and I wasn't with it 
Kicked out the house at the age of 18 
No money for college, mmm, how should I handle things? 
I tried to go the so-called right way 
And went to a JC but I wasn't getting paid 
I'm working at a chicken stand now with the chicken 
With a spring at the top of my hat getting clowned 
I gotta pay my rent but my job ain't cutting it 
So now I'm drinking gin saying "Here's my alternative" 
To either keep doing what I'm doing, don't trip 
Or go and buy gats y'all and come up on a grip 
So like anybody else I went and bought a gun 
Pulling burgs at night and now I'm counting my funds 
Three times a day and I drive a coup on danas 
Cruising through the alley bumping on "Hi" to players 
Yo, you can say what you want but I was taught on the streets 
That if a brother didn't work, then he didn't eat 

"You don't work, you can't eat" 

[Coolio] 
Peep this, something kind if for weakness 
Focus on the park and watch how I freak this 
Subject for survival, got to stay alive 
I gotta eat so I do or die 
Not a full-time crook but I was born right 
So if I want to eat, sometimes I got to jack 
So jack I will and go get some presidents 
A foot in the ground and the othe