[ intro ]   Gyeah   Regulatin for the west   Hoo bangin gangstas in the house   Gyeah   Compton   All day   For the thugs      [ verse 1 ]   I tell you it's hell up in compton, know what I mean   Niggas'll keep you dumpin plottin for cream   On a late night tip straight chasin your dream   Just a young knucklehead tryin to run with the team   Moms and pops tripped and slipped into the split   Now the days got tight cause this nigga wasn't gettin shit   The old fools down the block said: you're dumb   If you sling that white they will come   Now I know the game 50 double into the c- note   The beach cruiser flipped into the el camino   My hoodrat bitch done got a little class   Swap meet jewelry to tight jeans with ass   The .380 tucked away in a stash   The old school tapes I pumps in the dash   Just so I can smash   Sometimes I wonder how the hood life could last      [ chorus ]   The hood still took me under ( somebody help me out )   That's true   The hood still got me nigga   Like you   Gettin money on the blocks with my crew ( I don't wanna be here )   I'll be a thug nigga till my days is through   Come on   The hood still got me under ( somebody help me out )   That's true   The hood got me nigga   Like you   Gettin money on the blocks with my crew ( I don't wanna be here )   I'll be a thug nigga till my days is trough      [ verse 2 ]   One-times is gafflin that's the story   Another drive-by, another territory   Seems that they got a nigga all shook up   Y'all know we run the fuckin streets if we all hook up   But fuck it back to the fat packs I cook up   Your clientel down the block I straight took up   Dead presidents I got to stack it (ching-ching)   Infiltrators can't see the [ ] in my jacket   Lord you gotta forgive me for bein a thug   Niggas cross the frontline, catch the slug   Bullet cracks the window, body hits the rug   Burn rubber-sound means a nigga just dug   Out the crime scene back to my section   Slippin in the dark, shoulda had protection   That's how it goes never take shit lightly   Hoo bangin gangstas thinkin just like me      [ chorus ]      Check this out ( somebody help me out )   Gyeah   Compton all day   Come on ( somebody help me out )   Hoo bang all day nigga ( somebody help me out )   Representin for the west ( somebody help me out )   Gyeah      [ chorus ]      Gyeah ( somebody help me out )   Representin for all the thugs ( I don't wanna be here )   For all the thugs rest in peace   The real g's   Gyeah ( somebody help me out )   You know how we do it ( I don't wanna be here )   Representin for the west   Hoo bangin affiliance   Compton   Gyeah   ( somebody help me out )   ( somebody help me out )   ( somebody help me out )   ( I don't wanna be here )   ( somebody help me out )   ( I don't wanna be here )