Music to Me

Back when i was growing up
eazy-e, dr. dre, mc ren
and then NWA were blowing up
fuck the police, had it sewn up
middle finger to the law
everybody throwin up
back when ice cube left with it
young started ice-t made the feds
take em off the charts
and to short had em screaming out "BITCH"
and had the whole west coast bangin out hits
i started banging around the same time
dre drop the chronic by the time doggystyle
drop out was a smokeaholic puffin on california bombest

i had 20 in the lue's had 5 on me
i raised in the days of vaca's
and homies posted up in the alley with spray paints
and gangsta rap will just describe
how us gangstas act
smokin up on a sack bangin roger & zapp

this is music to me
the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
this is music to me
ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this
this is music to me
its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you
this is music to me
it help me come from nothing to something,
giving everybody something thats bumping

now alot rappers got down
representing kept it true
but up until that point not yet
ah brown point of view
then lighter shade came
then everybody bump it
chillin at the park on ah sunday nights i love it

then kid frost came
and hit em with "la raza"
slowly open them doors now lil rob
watcha then proper dos came with "thunder ground heat"
we're at it again with frank v and ernie g
these were the things that i bump coming up on my neighborhood
smokin on skunk

these were the songs
i use to bang to slang cang to
act up and go insane to
this is the soundtrack to my life puttin in work and str8 smashing thru the nights
i use think of rhymes myself
just to escape the sights turn the system up and close my eyes

this is music to me
the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
this is music to me
ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this
this is music to me
its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you
this is music to me
it help me come from nothing to something,
giving everybody something thats bumping

i use to love music so much
i use to sit in front of the radio listen to 92.3
and 106 on the stereo had a cassette already
in the tape deck push and record on different tracks
i get couldnt afford to get

but now shits change i make my own music in my own studio produce my own shit
i make fool's head bob from france to japan, italy and vietnam
and back to the west coast
where the music that influence me is still the best dope
its the new west breed mr. muthafucking criminal from the hpg
this is music to me my heaviest addiction from morning to the night
im stuck in ah position
where music gots me flowing thru my head
but at least im getting bread for it

this is music to me
the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
this is music to me
ah way to reminisce smokin out making music like this
this is music to me
its something im addicted to cant you tell in this music that im giving you
this is music to me
it help me come from nothing to something,
giving everybody something thats bumping