[Intro: Trick Trick] Yeah! This your boy Trick Trick I got my dawg Ice Cube in this motherfucker (Lench Mob!) I got my dawg Lil Jon close by too Right about now I need everybody to get they motherfuckin hands up And wherever the fuck you from Let the whole club see it What! What! Like this!
[Chorus: Lil Jon] Throw your hood up, nigga let me see it (let me see it) Throw your sets up high in the sky (in the sky) Let the whole club know that you in this bitch Throw your hood up, nigga let it fly (let it fly)
[Trick Trick] From 7 Mile, B.K. to Crenshaw to Camden to Bankhead All our homies get cheese (get cheese) Lynnwood to A-Z, Compton to Brook-nam Fifth Ward hitters pimp be (pimp be) School Craft to Grape Street, Harlem to 8th Street Ninth Ward killers throw it up (throw it up) Southwest to Brightmo', Puritan to 6 Mile Number streets won't hold 'em up (hold 'em up) Eastside you see the E's, Westside show the dubs Riders all around throwin fourths (throwin fourth) Blue and red flags up in the air hangin high and can see 'em C'in and B-walk (B-walk) Little G's khaki suited with French braids, AF-1's Ducati frames on beams (on beams) O.G.'s distributin them big thangs swingin them big chains Sportin that lil' teen (teen)
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[Ice Cube] Yeah G-A-N-G-S-T-A (gangsta) S-H-I-T in a white tee (you know) I am the H-double-O-D Y'all niggaz know me, the big double O.G. (yea-yea) Fuck the police, I used to roll goalie I used to hold these and drink down 40's All the rolies would come to control me I'm uncontrollable when I'm on some gold D's (ooh-ooooh!) Back the fuck up, I'm hard as concrete Sidewalk gun talk university Every hood's the same, up in Detroit I'm with Trick Trick, smoked about three joints On to bump one 'fore we hit the parkin lot After the fifth one niggaz don't talk a lot Hit the club, mean mug, what you lookin at? (What you lookin at?) Who that bitch you with? I'll put a hook in that
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[Lil Jon] If you true to yo' hood and you rep yo' set Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up Eastside, Westside, Southside, where you at? Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up What up cuz, cuz? What up Blood, Blood? Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up Midwest, West Coast, Dirty South, East Coast Throw it up, throw it up, throw it up, throw it up
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[Outro: Ice Cube (Trick)] What up Trick Trick? (What up O.G.?) This your nigga Ice Cube (right) Now check this out, I'm in downtown Detroit (alright) On my way to the club (right) I find out, that the bitch I'm text messagin (uh-huh) Is the same bitch the mayor's text messagin (OHHH!) What niggaz to do man? But keep it hood, fuck it