[00:29.89]Working LA tryin to get paid tha right way
[00:32.44]But somehow the right way don't pay
[00:35.10]I'm comin home late every night gotta struggle an fight
[00:37.66]Wit tha baseheads on tha late night hype
[00:39.81]Tryin to creep in tha house through tha cut for what?
[00:42.28]So I won't be seen by none of the homies but
[00:44.55]Tha homie Nate Dogg spots me and say "Yo what's happenin'
[00:47.42]Oh you don't know me no more" and passed me tha satin
[00:49.81]I said "Ah naw it ain't like that G
[00:52.18]I'm trying to go straight and have a J-O-B"
[00:54.64]"You need to quit that faggot ass job" that's what he said
[00:57.28]Showed me his grip and took some satin to tha head
[00:59.81]Damn that n*gga had at least two G's
[01:02.04]And he was clockin it wit so much ease
[01:04.72]I told him I was gone so I'm headin in tha house
[01:07.26]Everybody knocked out so I'm locked out
[01:09.76]I go back to tha front where my homies is hangin at
[01:12.04]They offer me a cavi sack so I can start slangin dat
[01:14.62]They say you ain't a hustler I say don't doubt it
[01:17.08]Hold dat thought and I'll think about it because
[01:22.73]I don't like to dream about gettin paid.......
[01:39.72]The thought's complete so let me take a seat
[01:41.78]Since I was born and raised on tha streets
[01:44.35]I quit tha job I had cop myself a sack
[01:46.99]Went from a double of fifty into a ceno stack
[01:49.42]Within a week but my peak wouldn't reach
[01:51.73]I was gettin too known on tha north side of Long Beach
[01:54.59]N*ggas got to trippin and I thought I heard it
[01:56.73]So I went to tha hood on twentieth and Murder
[01:59.22]I came up quick with some homies dat I knew from way way back
[02:02.79]And bid my sack
[02:04.68]Or maybe it's seven or was it eight hundred strong
[02:06.71]In other words Daz had it goin on
[02:09.49]I bought myself a bucket that's right a bucket b*tch
[02:11.66]Who you f*ckin my car or my d*ck
[02:14.39]My lifestyle switched a bit but my attitude didn't
[02:16.76]I told all my old b*tches good riddance
[02:19.22]Cause when you got money hoes come automatically
[02:21.58]And old hoes don't do nothing but cause some static see
[02:24.10]I went from khakis to Guess braids to a fade
[02:26.44]I'm not Special Ed but I had it made
[02:28.96]Livin tha life of a baller care free
[02:31.41]Havin b*tches dyin to sleep wit me ya see
[02:33.88]But I went bankrupt from all the spending and gamblin
[02:36.30]Business was gettin slow and I wasn't handlin
[02:38.78]Mine tha way I was supposed to
[02:41.00]Now I'm broke and on a jack mission so don't get close to
[02:43.94]Tha D-P-G gang cause we scandalous when we broke
[02:46.30]We get tha doggs in us and we get ta actin like some
[03:09.23]Last night I had a dream
[03:11.29]Felt so good it had to be
[03:14.24]Me and my homies were gettin paid
[03:16.29]Man oh man we had it made
[03:18.82]Some homies want to roll wit me
[03:21.12]Some homies claim insanity
[03:23.56]Well if you want to set trip I will
[03:25.87]If you don't want to drop be still
[03:28.28]Damn I can't believe this but you can best believe thistoday
[03:31.30]I'm on another mission to get paid
[03:33.23]Serve what I can serve right So my pockets will stack up
[03:35.94]N*gga don't trip n*gga back up I gots to react off the first impulse I find
[03:41.05]But my mama thinks I should take my time
[03:43.72]And work for mines but how much work would it take
[03:46.21]And how much money would I make
[03:48.65]Wait theres somethin I gotta think about
[03:50.58]But I ain't got that much time
[03:51.89]Moms want a n*gga out tha house
[03:53.45]I ain't gettin no younger I'm only gettin older
[03:55.68]I'm only thinking about what my mama told me
[03:58.29]Now I'm a Dogg Pound gangsta for life
[04:00.69]And the fact that I'm out to get paid twice
[04:03.17]I ain't nuttin nice down to slang or pull a heist
[04:05.65]Jack or break muthaf*ckas on the dice
[04:08.28]That's real now what should I do
[04:10.30]Just chill when it's time to peel caps and adapt to kill
[04:13.06]I've concealed tha concealed so I've maintained for tha salary
[04:15.57]And my mentally is raw from tha door
[04:18.18]I go hard from tha door up against all odds
[04:20.55]Always down to squab dogg Pound for life
[04:22.99]I survive til 95 day after day makin hits wit D-A-Z
[04:27.07]Ta get paid yeah yeah yeah