[ti:The Product] [ar:Ice Cube] [al:Kill at Will] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Product - Ice Cube (冰块酷八) [00:22.34]I was told cause I didn't witness the whole act [00:24.84]In and out was the movement of the bozack [00:27.00]It was hot and sweaty and lots of pushin [00:29.42]Then the nut came gushin [00:30.36] [00:31.38]And it was hell tryin to bail to the ovary [00:33.45]With nuttin but the Lord lookin over me [00:35.71]I was white with a tail [00:36.83] [00:37.35]But when I reached the finish line [00:38.65]Young black male [00:39.33] [00:40.21]One cell made two and two cells made fo' [00:42.50]And so on so now I'm a embryo [00:44.50]Then I got a hunch [00:46.11]That I'ma be on lockdown for nine months [00:48.51]Chillin with my mother to guide me [00:50.66]And nuttin but a stomach to hide me [00:53.35]From all that worry and b******t [00:54.64] [00:55.18]Nine months later I elbow pull and kick [00:57.43]Cause my time is up and I don't care [00:59.61]With one big push I'm outta there [01:01.67]June 15th it's just my luck [01:02.97] [01:03.67]In 1969 a ni**a is the product [01:06.70] [01:07.24]"Ghetto a** ni**a you ain't sh*t [01:08.68]And you ain't gon' never be sh*t " [01:10.86] [01:15.29]I learned how to walk and talk and all that [01:17.46]They put me in school but it don't matter [01:19.49]Cause I'm sittin in history [01:20.28] [01:20.88]Learnin bout a sucker [01:22.03]Who didn't give a f**k about me [01:24.02]They try to shape us [01:25.56]But I know Uncle Sam is a motherf**kin rapist [01:27.99]So I stopped payin attention [01:29.73]Ice Cube headed straight to detention [01:31.54] [01:32.15]F**k that sh*t I roam the hallways [01:34.30]I'm sent home and I don't got all A's [01:36.10] [01:36.82]A high school dropout [01:38.40]My father had beef so I tried to knock pops out [01:40.64] [01:41.39]But I got tossed he's the boss [01:43.28]I'm out of there and mad cause I lost [01:44.79] [01:45.46]Now bein on my own is a factor [01:46.97] [01:47.61]So I become the neighborhood jacker [01:48.92] [01:50.24]Gimme your car run your jewels [01:51.71] [01:52.29]Makin a livin robbin fools [01:53.38] [01:54.49]And if I let my nine rang out [01:56.29]You know it'll make your brains hang out [01:57.99] [01:58.87]So what's your fate [01:59.55] [02:00.13]Am I the ni**a you love or the one you love to hate [02:02.81]The wrong answer is said the ni**a fled [02:04.71]I pump lead now he's in a puddle of red [02:07.24]And if you got a buck you're sh*t out of luck [02:09.92]Stuck up by the motherf**kin product [02:11.72]"Uh-uh motherf**ker you gots to get a job [02:13.74]If you wanna stay in my motherf**kin house" [02:15.67]"Many young men reject the traditional values [02:17.28]That are important to their parents [02:18.49] [02:19.28]Church school and family [02:20.65] [02:21.17]Have been replaced by street turf and gang " [02:24.43] [02:28.83]Twenty-one now and paid in full [02:30.44] [02:31.16]Feelin bad from all the sh*t I pulled [02:33.52]On people back in the day [02:35.36]Plus I got a little baby on the way [02:37.60]So I'm tryin to go straight [02:39.30]I'm with my baby's momma out on a date [02:41.88]Til the punk a** cops ran my plate [02:43.71] [02:44.56]Now I'm on a bus upstate [02:45.60] [02:46.30]"Oh the young ni**a done caught a case " [02:49.13]"Sittin in the mess hall sayin my grace" [02:50.97]Sent to a concrete hoe-house [02:51.86] [02:52.49]Where all the products go no doubt [02:54.58] [02:55.23]Yo momma I gotta do eleven [02:56.75]Livin in a five by seven [02:58.08] [02:59.01]Dear baby your man's gettin worn out [03:01.15]Of seein young boys gettin they assholes torn out [03:03.56] [03:04.19]And then he got shanked with a spoon [03:05.55] [03:06.10]And he was 'sposed to get out soon [03:07.78]Is it my fault he was caught in production [03:09.76] [03:10.33]Where a young black life means nothin [03:12.02] [03:12.56]Just because I didn't want to learn your grammar [03:14.87]You say I'm better off in the slammer [03:16.27] [03:16.95]And it's drivin me batty [03:17.83] [03:18.36]Cause my little boy is missin daddy [03:20.29] [03:20.93]I'm ashamed but the fact is [03:23.00]I wish pops let me off on the mattress [03:25.13] [03:26.00]Or should I just hang from the top bunk [03:28.10]But that's goin out like a punk [03:29.57] [03:30.23]My life is F**KED [03:31.82]But it ain't my fault cause I'm the motherf**kin product [03:33.36]"He ain't sh*t"