[Intro: Ice-T]   This song is dedicated to my man Tupac Shakur, rest in peace!!   Notorious B.I.G., rest in peace!!   And all my other homies that have died   in the madness called street life   Rest in peace!!      [Chorus]   I'ma straight up G, let's not pretend   Dedicated to, all of my friends   On the East and the West Coast   Gotta let this drama go      [Ice-T]   Nineteen eighty six, deep in the mix   me and my team out for cream and jewel-liks   the faster, the better, blood, leather, the baby sledge   Case hitters - me, I'm the point man   Give less than a damn about anything, just let my hammer swing   Come up, give me my cut - what?   Girls don't mean nothin' to me, don't push the button on me   Out for the twist, ya nastically nasty G   Basically makin' me anti-social individual, too hype   Recognize the type?   Then a music called hip-hop came along and saved my life   I had a story to tell about my knowledge of hell   $2.50 for a book, listen and look, now let's do some Math   A gun and a hand, plus an angry man, minus love   equals and me, the sky's blue and they rags   toe-tags and body bags - y'all feel me?   Is it too real G? Brothers say drop some heat T   Absoultely, everything's goochie since we realized   this games' the only one we got left   Hip-hop's become the game of death   Some of y'all busters out there tryin' to waste up   It would've took some of us hustlers all this time to lace up      [Chorus]   I'ma straight up G, let's not pretend   Dedicated to, all of my friends   On the East and the West Coast   Gotta let this drama go      [Ice-T]   Ok, let me break it down, they got the one strike law   You go in, you reach the other two before you know   what happen to you - game's over dude   On the next page, they got power in effect   while you two rednecks waitin' to see which one of us   kills the next brother next   Think about it too long'll make you sick   Believe me the last thing they wanna see is us risin'   economically, astronomically it could happen homie - follow me   Hip-hop's the black goal - mind and soul   refined as we roll, another ghetto story is told   I stopped flippin' ki's in eighty three   They need a time machine to carcerate me   I'm square as a pool table, twice as green, know what I mean?   flippin' from heat, the legal green, the hip-hop scene   Beef, the only beef I got is the steak    I'm tryin' to eat from the players elite   East, West, North, South, Moon, Star   I'm gonna ball wherever the chips are   I hope y'all players listen, ain't out there hatin' and dissin'   Y'all know the game is to be sold and not told   I should be takin' a collection, this time I'll make an exception   I've just been here for the start of this   I gotta come from the heart for this      [Chorus]   I'ma straight up G, let's not pretend   Dedicated to, all of my friends   On the East and the West Coast   Gotta let this drama go      [Ice-T]   Some nights I lay awake tryin' to analyse    and anticipate the moves of the fakes   Wonder if the cancers' in too deep - can't sleep   Tryin' to diagnose the poison that's increased   injected into a pure hustle born on city streak   Migranes fill my brain as I reach toward the realm of the insane   Wishin' and prayin' that another brother gets    to live the life that I got to play in   Tryin' to represent to the fullest   I gotta come hard y'all, no time to pull it   Y'all fools think illin' and tearin' up   hip-hop is the thing to do G?   I'm paid I don't need rap no more fool I make a movie   Y'all tryin' to lose me   And to y'all suckers with your afrobatic, player hatin' tatics   tryin' to jump over the bree and plannin' and hustlin'   I've been corporatin' to this music over these years   Y'all will fall victim to your own lies and the P.I.   will continue to rise, over your eyes kid   This games' immaculate, dramas' irrelevant - stay sucker reppellin'   Invent, incoporate, parlay, play   And I got no reason to lie to you      [Chorus]   I'ma straight up G, let's not pretend   Dedicated to, all of my friends   On the East and the West Coast   Gotta let this drama go   I'ma straight up G, let's not pretend   Dedicated to, all of my friends   On the East and the West Coast   Gotta let this drama go