[Intro: Excerpt from an Unknown Old Western Movie] [Cowboy] .. take life from a motherfucker (*Gun Cocked and shot*)
[MC Eiht] Yeah, the Compton Psycho is back for the nine deuce With a little sip for the niggaz
[Verse One: MC Eiht] I got another gang story to tell Peep, about how a black nigga was born in hell And right then and there it's no hope Cause a nigga can't escape the gangs and the dope Damn! and when it's black on black, that makes it shitty Can't survive in the Compton city And fool's last bet Cause when you grow up in the hood, you gots to claim a set Yeah, it's not that you want to but you have to Don't be a mark, cause niggaz might laugh you Straight off the motherfucking glock Can't deal with busters so they asses get clocked Yeah, who gives a fuck about another? Only got love, for my fucking gang brothers Yeah, but I'm young so nobody would wonder That the hood would take me under
[Chorus: MC Eiht] Somebody help me, shit! Yeah, the motherfucking hood done took me under
[Verse Two: MC Eiht] Now I'm a few ages older Got hair on my nuts and I'm a little bit bolder And putting in work, I has to do my fucking part I'm down for the hood and it's planted in the heart Yeah, at school slapping on the girls' asses Fuck the white education cause; I skip a lot of classes Cause ain't no teaching a nigga white reality Teach me the motherfucking gang mentality Pop pop pop, drops the sucker If he's from another hood I gots to shoot the motherfucker Yeah, I'm in it to win it and can't quit Fool, and ready die for this shit One Times can't fade the gang tough Putting my foot in your ass to make times rough I'm the neighborhood terror but I never wondered That the hood would take me under
[Chorus: MC Eiht] Somebody help me, yeah! Yeah, the motherfucking hood done took me under Somebody help me, Oh! shit The motherfucking hood done took me under
[Excerpt from an Unknown Old Western Movie] Let me explain something to you; if you're planning a shoot.. (*Gun Shot*)
[Verse Three: MC Eiht] Now, I watch my back cause niggaz jiving Times heard this brother pulled the 187 Who I thought was my homie dropped the dime So I gotta peel his cap with the nine (*Gun Shot*) Fool, so if it's on then it's on, fuck your G.B. Cause how the odds are looking fool, it's either him or me So I loads up the strap and I step Cause my brain cells are dead and all I think is death Revenge, yeah, that's what it's all about See the sucker, take the motherfucker out Stare the fool down with the eye contact He try to swing so I draw on him with the gat (*Gun Shot*) Blast was the sound that one times heard-up Nigga 25 to live for the murder Was it worth it I've always wondered! Maybe if Compton didn't take me under
[Outro: MC Eiht] Somebody help me, shit! All my motherfucking niggaz say; the hood done took me under Yeah, for the niggaz that got double life What can you do homeboy? The hood done took me under That's how we do it in Compton..