Ten years ago
I used to listen to rapper's flow
Talking' bout the way they rock
The mic at the disco
I liked how that shit was going down
Dreamt about ripping the mic with my own sound
With my own sound, so I tried to write rhymes
Something' like them, my boys said,
"That ain't you Ice, that shit sounds like them"
So, I sat back, thought up a new track
Didn't fantasize, kicked the pure
Facts, motherfuckers got scared
'Cause they was unprepared
Who would tell it how it really was?
Who dared?
A motherfucker from the West Coast
L.A. South Central fool
Where the Crips and the Bloods play
When I wrote about parties
It didn't fit
Six in the morning

That was the real shit

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When I wrote about parties
Someone always died
When I tried to write happy
Yo I knew I lied, 'cause I lived a life of crime
Why play ya blind? A simple look
And anyone with two cents would know I'm
A hardcore player from the streets
Rapping about hardcore topics
Over hardcore drum beats
A little different than the average though
Jet you through the fast lane
Drop ya on death row
Cause anybody who's been there
Knows that life ain't so lovely
On the blood-soaked fast track
That invincible shit don't work
Throw ya in a joint you'll be
Coming out feet first
So I blast the mic with my style
Sometimes I'm ill
The other times buck wild
But the science is always there
I'd be a true sucker
If I acted like I didn't care
I rap for brothers just like myself
Dazed by the game
In a quest for extreme wealth
But I kick it to you hard and real
One wrong move, and you caps peeled
I ain't no super hero
I ain't no Marvel Comic
But when it comes to game I'm atomic
At dropping' it straight
Point blank and untwisted
No imagination needed, cause I lived it
This ain't no fuckin' joke
This shit is real to me
I'm Ice-T, O.G

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Two weeks ago, I was out at the disco
Two brothers stepped up to me
And said
"Hey yo, Ice We don't think you're down
What set ya claiming?"

E drew the Glock, yo my set's aiming
Dumb Motherfucker
Try to roll on me, please
I'm protected by a thousand MC's
And hoodlums and hustlers
And bangers with Jheri curls
We won't even count the girls
Cause they got my back
And I got theirs too
Fight for the streets
When I'm on Oprah or Donahue
They try to sweat a nigga
But they just didn't figure
That my wits as quick as a hair trigger

"He's not your everyday-type prankster"

I'm Ice-T, the Original Gangster

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So step to me If you think
That you're ready to
Got on your bullet proof?
Well mine's going right through
This ain't no game to me
It's hall of fame to me
Without respect from the streets
So I don't claim be the hardest
Motherfucker on earth
Catch me slipping, I can even get worked
But I don't slip that often
There's a coffin, waiting for the brother
Who comes off soft when
The real fucking shit goes down
Take a look around
All them pussies can't be found
They talk a mean fight
But fight like hoes
I'm from South Central, fool
Where everything goes
Snatch you out your car so fast
You'll get whiplash
Numbers on your roof top
For when the copters pass
Gang Bangers don't carry no switch blades
Every kid's got a TEC 9 or a hand grenade
Thirty-seven killed last week in a crack war
Hostages tied up and shot in a liquor store
Nobody gives a fuck

"The children have to go to school"

Well, Moms, good luck
'Cause the shit's fucked up bad
I use my pad and pen and my lyrics break out mad
I try to write about fun and the good times
But the pen yanks away and explodes
And destroys the rhyme, maybe it's just 'cause of where I'm from
L.A. that was a shotgun

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