[Intro: Big Hit]
Man..
Can you remember when you was little
Just, chopping it up with your friends
Like, what you want to be when you get older?
I wanna be a doctor
I wanna be a lawyer
I wanna be a football player
I wanna be a superstar or something'
But we ended up selling dope
Gangbangin', pimpin'
Doing somethin', runnin' the streets
Flocking, stealing
We in the wrong business my n***a, heh

[Verse 1: Big Hit]
Shoulda been a police (On me)
So I can live above the law
Uh, shoulda been a police (Police)
So I can lie 'bout it all (Yeah)
Shoulda been a police (Police)
With a license to kill (Oh yeah)
Shoulda been a police
Why's that?
So I could butcher n***as at will
[Adlib: Big Hit]
Man, they getting' away with bloody murder, my n***a
You know what I'm talkin' 'bout
They just, they throwin' shit at us
They throwin', making up laws for a n***a, homie
Y'all don't hear me though

[Verse: Big Hit & Hit Boy]
Shoulda been a police
Dealing under the table
With gangster snitching on the payroll
Shoulda been a police
Work of a CDC
So I can sell cellphones and trees
Shoulda been a police, huh
Trigger happy and free
So I can gun n***as down if they blink
Shoulda been a police
Runnin' red lights on call
Planting evidence, breaking all the laws
I shoulda been a police
So I can take fathers away from their sons
Kill a Black man on camera
And they can't tell me nothin'
Fuck hoes in my patrol car parked in the alley
Use excessive force for no reason
And pull out the blammy
Let off a hundred shots
Just to find out that he innocent
Be best friends with the judge
Giving out wrongful sentences
Come in your house without a warrant
And fuck up the premises
Beat somebodies ass, catch it on bodycam
Cuff and unarmed and laying on the ground
Give you two black eyes
Broken teeth and a broken nose
Just cause I want to, hit up random hoods
And up the pole, slam you on the hood of the vehicle
And fracture your bones
Boys in blue, I ain′t talking rolling 60's
Stop and frisking, minorities by the sixteens
Cuff you then drop you off in a rival set if you bang
I shoulda been the police cause they biggest gang
[Outro: Big Hit and Chauncey Hollis III]
Heh, dirty motherfuckers
You ain′t shit
N***as been, n***as been lynching n***a for years, homie
You know what I'm talking about?
I don′t know how long we gon’ go for this bullshit
Man, n***a act like a gopher, I can't go for anything
Fuck that
Man, we gotta learn to put our kids in the, up in the force, my n***a
Have somebody on our squad, my n***a
Somebody that look like us that′s really for us
Gotta spread our wings
Can’t be doing…everybody can't be singers
And, and, and professional football players and basketball players, my n***a
Gotta do like the migos, like the, like the woods, my n***a
Slide up into congress
My n***a, slide up under here, you know be a police my n***a
Be a CDC officer, look out for your people's my n***a, like they do
On me, on God in heaven, n***a
Ain′t no way in the world we should be doing this bad, n***a
We got all these rich motherfuckers
All these black millionaires and billionaires, n***a
You know what I′m saying?
Y'all n***as just in the way
Y′all pawns and puppets, n***a
You know what I'm saying?
You, you scared the motherfuckers gone snatch all your riches
You gone be a regular, petty ass n***a
Just like, like you was before you got that chili, n***a
Do something for your people, n***a
Watchu’ wanna be when you grow up?
A superstar