เนื้อเพลง Young N*ggaz - 2Pac

I wanna dedicate this one to Robert 'Yummy' Sanderford
and all other lil' Young N*ggaz that's in a rush to be gangstas

As a young n*gga, I'm almost ?swellin? in the wind
Give anythang, to be that innocent again, when I was ten
I didn't bang but I was hangin with the homies
tell them n*ggaz started slangin that they don't know me
I got my hustle on, learned to ignore what couldn't pay me
Lately I've been tryin to make a bill-ion, can you play me
with that jealousy they need to miss me, don't sweat me
If them cowards really want me, come get me, and even I
someday will die but I'm cautious, I'm fin' to ride
Put down the top, now we flossin
Hit the freeway, let the wind blow, drop the window
Workin with a twenty sack of indo, feelin good
Stop through the hood, grab the young thugs
And I can't help but reminisce back when we slung drugs, know it's bad
but all we had was our hopes and dreams
Couldn't see unless we learned to slang dope to fiends
as young n*ggaz

He's the kind of G like everybody knows
As a young n*gga
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n*gga
Always got it blown like Al Capone
Young n*gga
He's the downest G I've ever known

Back in Junior High, when we was barely gettin by, when daddy died
That's when my momma started gettin high
My neighborhood was full of drivebys, couldn't survive
All our homies livin short lives, I couldn't cry
Told my momma if I did die, just put a blunt in my casket
let me get my dead homies high
Come follow me throughout my history, it's just
_Me Against the World_ stuck in misery; as a young n*gga
My only thing was to be paid
Life full of riches avoid snitched cause they shady, back in the days
We always found the time to play,
but that's before they taught them gangbangers how to spray
Not just L.A., but in the Bay and in Chicago and even St. Louis
Every stadium that I go, when will they change?
Stuck in the game like a dumb n*gga
Remember how it was, to be a young n*gga

He's the kind of G like everybody knows
As a young n*gga
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n*gga
Always got it blown like Al Capone
Young n*gga
He's the downest G I've ever known

I'm tellin you..
.. to be young, have your brains and have every ? and all that
Yo, y'all n*ggaz don't know how good you really do got it
Muh'f*ckers need to just calm down
and peep what the f*ck they wanna do for the rest of the life
'Fore you end your life before you BEGIN your life
You dumb n*gga

Now that I'm grown, I got my mind on bein somethin
Don't wanna be another statistic, out here doin nuttin
Tryin to maintain in this dirty game, keep it real
and I will even if it kills me, my young n*ggaz
break away from these dumb n*ggaz
Put down the guns and have some fun n*gga, the rest'll come n*gga
Fame is a fast thang, that gangbangin
puttin n*ggaz in a casket, murdered for hangin
at the wrong place at the wrong time, no longer livin
Cause he threw up the wrong sign, and every day
I watch the murder rate increases, and even worse
the epidemic and diseases, what is the future?
The projects lookin hopeless, where
more and more borhters givin up and don't care
Sometimes I hate when brothers act up, I hit the weed
and I proceed to blow the track up, for young n*ggaz

He's the kind of G like everybody knows
For these young n*ggaz
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
My memories as a young n*gga
He always got it blown like Al Capone
Take it slow n*gga, it's for the young n*ggaz
He's the downest G I've ever known
As a young n*gga

He's the kind of G like everybody knows
He's always G'd up, from head to toe
Memories as a young n*gga
He always got it blown like Al Capone
He's the downest G I've ever known
['Pac talking overlaps singing last four lines]
This go out to the young thugs, the have-nots (you know)
Little bad motherf*ckers from the block (that's right)
Them n*ggaz that's thirteen and fourteen
Drivin Cadillacs, Benzes and sh*t (I see you boy)
Young motherf*ckin hustlers (make that money boy)
Stay strong n*gga
You could be a f*ckin accountant, not a dope dealer
youknowhatI'msayin? (Go to school n*gga, go to school)
F*ck around and, you pimpin out here
You could be a lawyer (really doe)
N*ggaz gotta get they priorities straight
(Don't see Johnny Cochran out in this motherf*cker)
Really doe.. young n*ggaz.. little RahRah
(sup n*gga) Especially my little cousins don't be no dumb guy
(Don't be a dumb n*gga, listen, young n*ggaz)

[singers freestyle and skat to the end of the song]