Is this me?

[00:00.94] "Is This Me?"

[00:02.53] Yeah 1996

[00:05.71] Coolio with the flow

[00:08.64] Rated R superstar

[00:10.50] LV that's right

[00:22.45] Mossberg Smith & Wesson

[00:25.10] Forty-five let me tell you how I learned my lesson

[00:27.76] House party in the hood at some niggas I don't know

[00:29.62] But I had to go they had a house full of hos

[00:32.28] I stepped into that party with my nigga high off that head

[00:34.93] The hos is looking good so we try to make a friend for night

[00:37.85] Let's get it right let's get it straight

[00:40.25] But now these punkass niggas in the party want to play a hate

[00:43.17] I'd bust a cap to save a rat so what's up with that

[00:45.82] It's 1996 so these bustas get no kinda of doubt

[00:48.75] Like American Express here we go again

[00:50.87] I never leave home without it so don't even think about it

[00:54.32] Just let me leave and I won't have to make you bleed

[00:56.72] But if you make an offensive move then I'm gonna have to show a groove

[00:59.64] Back up off let's keep it soft

[01:02.29] Don't make me have to show you who these 16 bosses be

[01:05.48] This really ain't me no more

[01:07.07] These streets won't let me go

[01:09.99] I can't escape this life

[01:12.12] That they got me trapped inside

[01:15.31] This really ain't me no more

[01:17.96] These streets won't let me go

[01:21.15] I can't escape this life

[01:23.01] That they got me trapped inside

[01:26.46] Way back in the days we dudes don't forget a name

[01:29.65] Now everybody wants the fame but things change ain't the same

[01:32.05] All these sucker set-trippin killin for no reason

[01:34.96] That's why I never leave the house without my nina

[01:37.89] I love my baby carry my baby whereever I go

[01:40.54] For these suckers get in a twist they say I beat their pimpin

[01:43.46] Stop wishin you was in my shoes

[01:45.59] And learn to be yourself stop acting like somebody else

[01:48.51] It's ninety-six and most of the homeys thinking of six feet

[01:51.43] The six I found out if you wear partners where the friends go

[01:54.35] Every week you don't see me I gotta put at work

[01:57.02] I guess the shit don't stop till my gaskets drop

[01:59.14] Stop hating my life and get your own

[02:01.79] Be true to this game or this game will do you cold

[02:04.72] Everywhere I go I got my back

[02:06.84] I hate to do my all black but I must stay strapped

[02:10.03] This really ain't me no more

[02:11.89] These streets won't let me go

[02:15.07] I can't escape this life

[02:17.20] That they got me trapped inside

[02:20.92] This really ain't me no more

[02:22.78] These streets won't let me go

[02:25.97] I can't escape this life

[02:28.09] That they got me trapped inside

[02:33.40] No no oooo I can't escape this life

[02:42.97] I been trying to live in piece but these fools won't cease

[02:44.82] They insist with their bullshit so I got a full clip

[02:48.01] Chitty-chitty bang-bang doin it's a new thing

[02:50.93] One shot from a Jake .38 can make your brain ache

[02:53.59] I'm the kinda nigga that don't believe in frontin'

[02:55.98] But if you run up on me trippin you best believe I'm dumpin'

[02:58.64] I got bills to pay and kids to raise

[03:01.56] And a whole generation of lost niggas to save

[03:03.95] So I ain't got time for that yip yap

[03:06.60] If you start some static I'm gonna have to blow your mind back

[03:09.53] Believe that nigga daisy if you do it's true

[03:12.45] Fuck with Coo you get done that's how we do it to it

[03:15.38] Don't start no shit and it won't be none son

[03:18.03] But if you do I'm going for my gun

[03:20.68] Like Doc Holliday a nigga ain't scary

[03:23.34] So if you want to trip then I'll be your huckleberry

[03:26.79] This really ain't me no more

[03:28.12] These streets won't let me go

[03:31.04] I can't escape this life

[03:33.17] That they got me trapped inside

[03:36.62] This really ain't me no more

[03:38.75] These streets won't let me go

[03:41.93] I can't escape this life

[03:44.32] That they got me trapped inside

[03:48.31] This really ain't me no more

[03:49.90] These streets won't let me go

[03:52.82] I can't escape this life

[03:55.21] That they got me trapped inside

[03:58.67] This really really really ain't me

[04:01.06] But the streets won't let me go

[04:03.71] I can't escape this life

[04:06.10] That they got me trapped inside