[Part I: Why We Thugs]

[Intro: WC]
Can my homeboy tell y'all where the fuck he from? (Ah yeah)
Can my homeboy tell y'all where the fuck he from?
Ayo Cube, let's get this party started, my n***a
Won't you tell Perth where the fuck you from?

[Verse 1: Ice Cube]
I'm from the land of the gangbang
Since I was little, ain't a goddamn thang changed
It's the same ol' same
Bush run shit like Saddam Hussein
I cock and aim, clinically insane
To deal with this bullshit day to day
If I sell some yay or smoke some hay
You bitches wanna throw me up in Pelican's Bay
Call me an animal up in the system
But who's the animal that built this prison?
Who's the animal that invented lower living?
The projects, thank God for Russell Simmons
Thank God for Sugarhill
I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grill
Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids
How these ghetto n***as taken over showbiz
[Chorus: Ice Cube]
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs (You know)
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (You know)
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs (You know)
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

[Verse 2: Ice Cube]
It's boyz in the hood (What), it's toys in the hood (What)
Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood
'Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood
N***a killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood (For real)
'Cause when n***as get tribal
It's all about survival, it's nobody liable
I got caught by 5-O
Grandmama came to court with her Bible
But when the judge hit the gavel
Now I'm too far from my family to travel (Fuck)
I just came unraveled
Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
Owned by C.A, State Property
Just like the year 1553
Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out?
[Chorus: Ice Cube]
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (You know)
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs (You know)
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

[Interlude: WC]
Yo, won't you break it down for Perth; break it down

[Verse 3: Ice Cube]
Damn, can't take the pressure
Pulled the .4-4 up out the dresser
Grabbed the weight up out the closet
Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it
Y'all know what happened last time I lost it
Can't tell you n***as what the fucking boss did
The game got a n***a exhausted
I gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
Twenty years for what?
Breaking these laws that's so corrupt
Taking these halls and filling 'em up
Some powder keg shit that's about to erupt
Ayy y'all, I'm about to be stuck
Until the year two thousand, what the fuck?
In the hood, don't press your luck
'Cause these motherfuckers will set you up, word up
[Chorus: Ice Cube]
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs (You know)
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us (You know)
They gives us guns and drugs
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs (Yeah)
They wanna count the slugs
Then come around here and fuck with us

[Outro: Ice Cube]
Perth, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Yo Perth, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Even in Perth, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
We love Perth, every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
Believe that shit

[Interlude: Ice Cube & WC]
Ah, they lookin' good out there tonight, Cube
Ayy Perth, you lookin' damn good to me tonight, shit
Ah, they lookin' good tonight
Now, it's lookin' good, but it ain't really smellin' good now, you know what I mean
Here's why: I don't smell no motherfuckin' chronic in the air
What the fuck is goin' on?
I mean, I know they didn't let Snoop in the house
But goddamn it, I'm here, goddamnit
I was able to get in, so shit, show me a little California love, man
Put it in the air
Ayy, ayy, Crazy Toones, help these motherfuckers put it in the air, man
Fire it up! Blaze it up!
And do what?
Smoke some weed

[Part II: Smoke Some Weed]

[Intro: Ice Cube, WC, Both]
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on, bounce
Come on
What's your name, homie?
Ice Cube, motherfucker
Where you at, Perth? What you represent, my n***a?
West Coast, motherfucker

[Verse 1: Ice Cube]
George Bush, George Clinton, Bill Clinton
Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Bob Marley
Rick James, knew how to throw a party
"Smoke some weed!" (Who else?)
Snoop Dogg, all the way to Cheech & Chong
Cypress Hill, Robert Downey hit the bong
Ricky Williams, fuck how Miami feeling
"Smoke some weed!"

[Chorus: Ice Cube, WC]
What is this, Cube?
This is West Coast n***a thinking
California quicksand got a n***a sinking
I can give a fuck what you n***as drinking
"Smoke some weed!"
What is this, Cube?
This is West Coast n***a thinking
California quicksand got a n***a sinking
I can give a fuck what you bitches drinking
"Smoke some weed!"

[Outro: Ice Cube, WC]
What's your name, homie?
Ice Cube, motherfucker
Where you at, Perth? What you represent, my n***a?
West Coast, motherfucker
"Smoke some weed!"
Hell yeah, haha
It smell much better up in here right now
That's what the fuck I'm talkin' about