Shorty Wanna Be A Thug

[Chorus:]
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.

[Verse 1:]
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 puffin' 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 tellin'.
I tell you, “It's a cold world, stay in school.”
You tell me, “It's a man's world, play the rules!
And fade fools, break rules until we major,
Blaze up, gettin' with hoes through my pager,
Was raised up commencin' to money-makin' tactics,
It's gettin' drastic, niggas got automatics,
My fingers on the trigger, tell the Lord
To make way for another straight thug nigga!”
I'm sittin' gettin' buzzed lookin' for some love
From the homies ‘cause shorty wanna be a thug.

[Chorus:]
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.

[Verse 2:]
Straight from the hall to the penn,
An adolescent nigga scalin' weight and standin' six feet ten.
He carried weight like a Mack truck,
Gonna bust on some playa haters
If the mothafuckas act tough.
Then that's when the lethal weapon with the razor,
This little nigga smokin' weed and gettin' 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, this war zone.
Been laced with this game till it's apart of me,
My heart don't beat no fear. and it ain't hard to see.
The future is lookin' dim
I'm tryna make a profit out of livin' in this sin,
I'm in the dark gettin' buzzed, lookin' for some love
Out with the homies ‘cause shorty wanna be a thug.

[Chorus:]
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.
Say he wanna be,
Shorty's gonna be a thug!
Said he wanna be,
One day he's gonna be.

[Outro:]
Shorty gonna be a thug!
You little badass nigga!
To the young niggas,
Gotta stay sharp, nigga, play your part.
You got plenty of time, you bad mothafuckas!
You only get three mistakes, then that's life, big baby, niggas crazy.
Watch the signs.
Damn, you ain't but sixteen, nigga?
Sixteen?!
That's a bad mothafucka!