[Intro/Bridge]
If [bad word] and Crips all got along
They'd probably gun me down by the end of this song
Seem like the whole city go against me
Every time I'm in the street I hear

[ScHoolBoy Q]
"YAWK! YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!"

[MC Eiht: Hook]
"Man down
Where you from, [bad word] " ... who you know, where you from, my [bad word] "
"Where your grandma stay, huh, my [bad word] "
"This m.A.A.d city [bad word]  my [bad word] 

[Verse 1]
Brace yourself, I'll take you on a trip down memory lane
This is not a rap on how I'm slingin crack or move cocaine
This is cul-de-sac and plenty Cognac and major pain
Not the drill sergeant, but the stress that weighing on your brain
It was Me, O-Boog[?], and Yaya[?], YG Lucky ride down Rosecrans
It got ugly, waving your hand out the window. Check yo self
Uh, warriors and Conans
Hope euphoria can slow dance with society
The driver seat the first one to get killed
Seen a light-skinned ... with his brains blown out
At the same burger stand where --- hang out
Now this is not a tape recorder saying that he did it
But ever since that day, I was lookin at him different
That was back when I was nine
Joey packed the nine
Pakistan on every porch is fine
We adapt to crime, pack a van with four guns at a time
With the sliding door, ... is up? ... you shootin for if you ain't walkin up you ... punk?
Pickin up the ... pump
Pickin off you suckers, suck a ... or die or sucker punch
wall of [bad word] from
AK's, AR's, "Aye y'all. Duck."
That's what momma said when we was eatin the free lunch
Aw man, God [bad word]  all ... broke loose
You killed my cousin back in '94. ... yo [bad word] Now crawl yo head in that noose
You wind up dead on the news
Ain't no peace treaty, just pieces
BG's up to pre-approve, bodies on top of bodies
IV's on top of IV's
Obviously the coroner between the sheets like the Isleys
When you hop on that trolley
Make sure your colors correct
Make sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collect
They say the governor collect, all of our taxes except
When we in traffic and tragic happens, that ... ain't no threat
You movin backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a Tec
Go buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess
M.A.A.d city

[Hook]

[Intro/Bridge]

[ScHoolBoy Q]
"YAWK! YAWK! YAWK!---

(static)

[MC Eiht]
Wake yo punk ... up!
It ain't nothin but [bad word] thang
Jeah
Real simple and plain
I'mma teach you some lessons about the street
It ain't nothin but [bad word] thang
Chyea
How we do

[Verse 2]
Fresh outta school cause I was a high school grad
Sleeping in the living room in my momma's pad
Reality [bad word] I seen the white car crash
Hit the light pole two [bad word] s hopped out on foot and dashed
My Pops said I needed a job I thought I believed him
Security guard for a month and ended up leaving
In fact I got fired because I was inspired by all of my friends
To stage a robbery the third Saturday I clocked in
Projects tore up, gang signs get thrown up
Cocaine laced in marijuana
And they wonder why I rarely smoke now
Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth
I was straight tweaking the next weekend we broke even
I made allegiance that made a promise to see you bleeding
You know the reasons but still won't ever know my life
Kendrick [bad word] s human sacrifice

[Mc Eiht]
Cocaine, weed [bad word] s been mixing ... since the 80's loc
Sherm sticks, butt nakeds
Make a ... flip
Cluck heads all up and down the block and ... One time's crooked and ... Block a ... in
Alondra, Rosecrans, Bullis
I'm still in the hood
Loc yeah that