OG Original Gangster

[00:33.66] Ten years ago

[00:35.26] I used to listen to rappers flow

[00:37.15] Talkin' bout the way

[00:38.28] They rocked the mic at the disco

[00:39.28] I liked how that shit was goin' down

[00:41.45] With my own sound

[00:44.52] So I tried to write rhymes

[00:45.76] Somethin' like them, my boys said,

[00:47.03] "That ain't you Ice,

[00:48.03] That shit sounds like them."

[00:49.28] So I sat back, thought up a new track

[00:51.28] Didn'T fantasize, kicked the pure

[00:53.29] Facts. Motherfuckers got scared

[00:55.03] Cause they weas unprepaired

[00:56.27] who would tell it how it relly was?

[00:57.77] Who dared?

[00:58.52] A motherfucker from the West Coast

[00:59.77] L.A. South Central fool

[01:01.53] Where the Crips and the Bloods play

[01:03.01] When I wrote about parties

[01:04.28] It didn't fit

[01:05.12] Six in the Mornin'

[01:06.29] That was the real shit

[01:07.90] O.G. Original Gangster

[01:25.87] When I wrote about parties

[01:27.21] Someone always died

[01:28.20] When I tried to write happy

[01:29.48] Yo I knew I lied, I lived a life of crime

[01:32.23] Why play ya blind?

[01:33.23] A simple look

[01:33.62] and anyone with two cents

[01:34.86] would know I'm

[01:35.63] A hardcore player fromhe streets

[01:36.87] Rappin' bout hardcore topics

[01:38.88] Over hardcore drum beats

[01:40.12] a little different

[01:41.13] Than the average though

[01:42.36] Jet you through the fast lane

[01:43.61] Drop ya on death row

[01:44.77] Cause anybody who's been there

[01:46.53] Knows that life ain't sho lovely

[01:48.15] On the blood-soaked fast track

[01:49.64] That invincible shit don't work

[01:51.63] Throw ya in a joint

[01:52.89] You'll be comin' out feet first

[01:54.16] So I blst the mic with my style

[01:56.41] Sometimes I'm ill

[01:57.64] The other times buck wild

[01:58.91] But the science is always there

[02:00.66] I'd be a true sucker

[02:02.40] If I acted like I didn'T care

[02:03.65] I rap for brothers just like myself

[02:05.64] Dazed by the game

[02:06.79] In a quest for extreme wealth

[02:08.17] But I kick it to you hard and real

[02:10.42] One wrong move, and you caps peeled

[02:13.17] I ain't no super hero

[02:14.18] I ain't no Marvel Comic

[02:15.41] But when it comes to game I'm atomic

[02:17.41] At droppin' it straight

[02:18.39] Point blank and untwisted

[02:19.90] No imagination needed, cause I lived it

[02:21.91] This ain't no fuckin' joke

[02:23.43] This shit is real to me

[02:24.67] I'm Ice-T

[02:25.66] O.G.

[02:35.41] Two weeks ago I was out at the disco

[02:38.39] Two brothers stepped up to me

[02:39.91] And said

[02:40.28] "Hey yo, Ice

[02:41.16] We don't think you're down

[02:42.27] What set ya claimin'?"

[02:43.27] E drew the Glock, yo my set's aimin'!

[02:45.77] Dumb motherfucker

[02:46.39] Try to roll on me, please!

[02:48.14] I'm protected by a thousand emcees

[02:50.14] and hoodlums and hustlers

[02:51.16] And bangers with Jeri curls

[02:52.65] we won't even count the girls

[02:54.65] Cause they got my back

[02:56.15] And I got theirs too

[02:57.15] Fight for the streets

[02:58.15] When I'm on Oprah or Donahue

[02:59.62] They try to sweat a nigga

[03:00.88] But they just didn'T figure

[03:02.14] What my wit's as quick as a hair trigger

[03:04.16] "He's not your everyday-type

[03:06.15] Prankster."

[03:07.16] I'm Ice-T, the original gangster

[03:26.64] So step to me

[03:28.40] If you think that you're ready to

[03:29.62] Got on your bullet proof?

[03:31.15] Well mine's goin' right through

[03:32.40] This ain't no game to me

[03:33.66] It's hollow fame to me

[03:34.88] Without respect frome streets

[03:36.14] So I don't claim be

[03:37.14] The hardest motherfucker on earth

[03:38.63] Catch me slippin, I can even get worked

[03:41.63] But I don'T slip that often

[03:43.16] there's a coffin

[03:43.90] Waitin' for the brother

[03:44.90] Who comes off soft when

[03:46.39] The real fuckin' shit goes down

[03:47.64] Take a look around

[03:49.23] all them pussies can be found

[03:50.98] they talk a mean fight

[03:52.23] But fight like hoes

[03:53.26] I'm from South Central, fool

[03:54.72] Where everything goes

[03:55.99] Snatch you out your car so fast

[03:56.99] You'll get whiplash

[03:58.23] Numbers on your roof top

[03:59.24] For when the copters pass

[04:00.75] Gang bangers

[04:01.49] Don't carry no switch blades

[04:02.49] Every kid's got a Tec 9 or a

[04:04.24] Hand grenade

[04:05.23] Thirty-seven killed

[04:05.63] Last week in a crack war

[04:07.38] Hostges tied up

[04:08.38] And shot in a liquor store

[04:09.61] Nobody gives a fuck

[04:11.86] "The children have to go to school."

[04:13.35] Well, moms, good luck

[04:14.38] Cause the shit's fucked up bad

[04:15.88] I use my pad and pen

[04:17.38] And my lyrics break out mad

[04:19.11] I try to write about fun

[04:20.62] andthe goodtimes

[04:21.38] But the pen yanks away and explodes

[04:22.86] And destroys the rhyme

[04:24.11] Maybe it's just cause of where I'm from

[04:25.86] L.A. that was a shot gun!

[04:28.62] O.G. Original Gangster