Working L.A., tryin' to get paid tha right way But somehow the right way don't pay I'm comin' home late every night gotta struggle an fight Wit' tha base heads on tha late night hype Tryin' to creep in tha house through tha cut for what So I won't be seen by none of the homies But tha homie Nate Dogg spots me and say Yo what's happenin' No you don't know me no more when ya pass me tha satin' I said ah naw it ain't like that G, I'm trying to go straight And have a J O B, you need to quit that fagot ass job That's what he said Showed me his grip and took some satin to tha head Damn that nigga had at least two G's And he was clockin' it wit' so much ease I told him I was gone so I'm headin' in tha house Everybody knocked out, so I'm locked out I go back to tha front where my homies is hangin' at They offer me a cabby sack, so I can start slangin' dat They say you ain't a hustler, I say don't doubt it Hold dat thought and I'll think about it 'cause I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid The thought's complete so let me take a seat Since I was born and raised on tha streets I quit tha job I had caught myself a sack Went from a double of fifty into a ceno stack Within' a week but my peak wouldn't reach I was gettin' too known on tha north side of Long Beach Niggas got to trippin' and I thought I heard it So I went to tha hood on Twentieth and Murder I came up quick with some homies dat I knew from way, way back And bid my sack or maybe it's seven or was it eight hundred strong In other words Daz had it goin' on, I bought myself a bucket That's right a bucket bitch who you fuck in my car on my dick My life self switched a bit but my attitude didn't I told all my old bitches good riddance 'Cause when you got money hoes come automatically And no hoes don't do nothing but cause some static see I went from khakis to guess braids to a fade I'm not Special Ed but I had it made Livin' tha life of a baller care free Havin' bitches dyin' to sleep wit me ya see But I went bankrupt from all the spending and gamblin' Business was gettin' slow and I wasn't handlin' Mine tha way I was supposed to Now I'm broke and on a jack mission so don't get close to Tha D P G gang 'cause we scandalous when we broke We get tha doggs in us we get ta actin' like some I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid Last night I had a dream felt so good it had to be Me and my homies were gettin' paid, man, oh, man we had it made Some homies want to roll wit' me, some homies claim insanity Well, if you want to set trip I will, if you don't want to drop be still Damn, I can't believe this but you can best believe this today I'm on another mission to get paid serve what I can serve right So my pockets will stack up nigga don't trip, nigga back up I gots to react off the first impulse I find But my mama thinks I should take my time and work for mines But how much work would it take and how much money would I make Wait, theres somethin' I gotta think about But I ain't got that much time moms want a nigga out tha house I ain't gettin' no younger, I'm only gettin' older I'm only thinking about what my mama told me Now I'm a Dogg Pound gangsta for life And the fact that I'm out to get paid twice I ain't nuttin' nice Down to slang or pull a heist Jack or break mutha fuckas on the dice, that's real Now what should I do just chill When it's time to peel caps and adapt to kill I've concealed tha concealed so I've maintained for tha salary And my mentally is raw from tha door I go hard from tha door Up against all odds always down to squab Dogg Pound for life I survive till 95 Day after day makin' hits wit' D A Z Ta get paid yeah, yeah, yeah I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid I don't like to dream about gettin' paid © SUGE PUBLISHING; WB MUSIC CORP.; WARNER-TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORP; Bu döküman AkorMerkezi.com'da yayınlanmıştır. http://www.akormerkezi.com