Ice Cube The Product Lyrics

I was told, cause I didn't witness the whole act
In and out was the movement of the bozack
It was hot and sweaty and lots of pushin
Then the nut came gushin
And it was hell tryin to bail to the ovary
With nuttin but the Lord lookin over me
I was white with a tail
But when I reached the finish line, young black male!
One cell made two, and two cells made fo'
and so on, so now I'm a embryo
Then I got a hunch
that I'ma be on lockdown, for nine months
Chillin, with my mother to guide me
And nuttin but a stomach to hide me
from all that worry and bullshit
Nine months later, I elbow pull and kick
cause my time is up and I don't care
With one big push, I'm outta there
June 15th, it's just my luck
In 1969, a n____ is the product

"Ghetto a__ n____, you ain't s___,
and you ain't gon' never be s___!"

I learned how to walk and talk and all that
They put me in school, but it don't matter
Cause I'm sittin in history
Learnin bout a sucker, who didn't give a f___ about me
They try to shape us
But I know Uncle Sam is a m_________in rapist
So I stopped payin attention
Ice Cube, headed, straight to detention
f___ that s___, I roam the hallways
I'm sent home and I don't got all A's
A high school dropout
My father had beef so I tried to knock pops out
But I got tossed, he's the boss
I'm out of there and mad cause I lost
Now bein on my own is a factor
So I become, the neighborhood jacker
Gimme your car, run your jewels
Makin a livin robbin fools
And if I let my nine rang out
You know, it'll make your brains hang out
So what's your fate?
Am I the n____ you love, or the one you love to hate?
The wrong answer is said, the n____ fled
I pump lead, now he's in a puddle of red
And if you got a buck, you're s___ out of luck
Stuck up by the m_________in product

"Uh-uh m_________er you gots to get a job
if you wanna stay in my m_________in house"

"Many young men reject the traditional values
that are important to their parents.
Church, school and family
have been replaced by street, turf, and gang."

Twenty-one now, and paid in full
Feelin bad, from all the s___ I pulled
on people back in the day
Plus, I got a little baby on the way
So I'm tryin to go straight
I'm with my baby's momma, out on a date
Til the punk a__ cops ran my plate
Now I'm on a bus upstate

"Oh, the young n____ done caught a case!"