[Intro/Chorus: 2Pac]    Say he wanna be  Shorties gonna be a Thug  Said he wanna be  One day he's gonna be  Said he's wanna be  Shorties gonna be's a Thug  Said he's gonna be  One day he gonna be  Say he wanna be  Shorties gonna be a Thug  Said he gonna be  One day he's gonna be  Said he wanna be  Shorties gonna be a Thug    [Verse One: 2Pac]    He was a nice middle class nigga  But nobody knew the evil he'd do When he got a little bigger  Get off the final blaze   While puffing on a Newport  plottin' on a another way to catch a case  Was only sixteen, yet convicted as a felon  With a bunch of old niggas   But you the only one who ain't telling  I tell you it's a cold world, stay in school  You tell me its a man's world, play the rules  And fade fools, 'n break rules until we major  Blaze up, getting with hoes through my pager  Was raised up, commencing to money makin' tactics  It's getting drastic, niggas got automatics  My fingers on the trigga, Tell the lord  To make way for another straight Thug Nigga  I'm sitting getting buzzed, looking for some luv  from the homies, cuz shorty wanna be a Thug    [Chorus]    [Verse Two: 2Pac]    Straight from the Hall to the Penn  Adolescent nigga scaling weight and standing Six feet Ten  He carried weight like a Mack truck  Gonna bust on some playa haters   if the mutha fuckas act tuff  Then thats when the lethal weapon with the razor  This little nigga smoking weed and getting blazed up  No one could figure, when the guns blast pull the trigga  Could take the life of a young nigga guns bigger  No mother and father, you see, the niggas all alone  Old timers my role model, the war zone  Released with this game 'til its a part of me  My heart don't beat no fear and it ain't hard to see  The future is looking dim  I'm trying to make a profit out of living in this sin  I'm in the dark getting buzzed, looking for some love  out with the homies, cuz shorty wanna be a Thug    [Chorus]    [Outro: 2Pac]    Shorty gonna be a thug    You little bad ass nigga, to the young niggas  gotta stay sharp nigga, play your part  you got plenty of time (you bad mutha fuckas)  You only get three mistakes, then thats life, big baby (niggas craaazy)  watch the signs  Damn, you ain't but sixteen nigga?  Sixteen?!  That's a bad muthafucker