Endangered Species (Tales From the Darkside) [Remix]

Good evening

This is Los Angeles, a city with many claims on America, including this one

It is now the gang capital of the nation

Last year alone there were 452 gang-related murders in the greater Los Angeles area

And we'll see if there's anything that can be done about all of this

It's just another **** dead

It's just another **** dead

Peace? Don't make me laugh

All I hear is **** rappin' succotash

Livin' large, tellin' me to get out the gang

I'm a **** gotta live by the trigga

How the **** do you figure?

That I can say peace and the gunshots will cease?

Every cop killer goes ignored

They just send another **** to the morgue

A point scored, they could give a **** about us

They rather catch us with guns and white powder

If I was old, they'd probably be a friend of me

Since I'm young, they consider me the enemy

They'll kill ten of me to get the job correct

To serve, protect and break a **** neck

'Cause I'm the one with a trunk of funk

And "**** tha Police" in the tape deck

You should listen to me 'cause there's more to see

Call my neighborhood a ghetto 'cause it houses minorities

The other color don't know you can run but not hide

These are tales from the darkside

Endangered species

It's just another **** dead

Endangered species

All of us are endangered, damn

You wanna free Africa? I'll stare at ya

'Cause we ain't got it too good in America

I can't **** with them overseas

My homeboy died over a key of cocaine

It was plain and simple

The nine millimeter went (*Gunshot*) to the temple

(****Gunshots****) Was the sound, I put the **** down

And ran to the schoolyard bathroom

Looked in the trash can, yo, it had room

So I ducked my ass in it for a minute

Covered with trash I had to lay back

Mad as ****, thinkin' about the payback

Tonight the crew had a little fun

I went home and cut the barrel of my shotgun

It's gettin critical, I stole a 5.0

Let it go, drive real slow

I yelled out, "Ice Cube, sucka"

The shotgun kicked and it murdered ****

I told you last album

When I got a sawed-off, bodies are hauled off

It's a shame, that **** die young

But to the light side, it don't matter none

It'll be a drive by homicide

But to me, it's just another tale from the darkside

Wipe out (it's all under control)

I told you to look out!

Shut up!

Yo, Chuck, these honey drippers are still frontin' on us

Show 'em that we can do this 'cause we always knew this

Haha, yeah, boy!

Standing in the middle of war doesn't mean that we flex

When we die, we won't make Jet

Ebony can't see to the light side

The term they apply to us is a ****

Call it what you want, 'cause I'm comin' from the corner

Same applies with a Ph.D. 

Who's Black, don't wanna roll

Sells his soul, watch his head go rollin'

Who the **** are they foolin'?

Nobody knows, but I suppose the color of my clothes

Match the color of the one on my face

As they wonder what's under my waist

Standin' on the verge of them gettin' brown

That's a fact, got 'em fearin' the bozack

Run, run, run their ass off, they can not hide

Yeah, Cube, they can't **** with the darkside

Endangered species

It's just another **** dead