Hey, throw me the black one,
throw me the hat,
I need that vest too,
yo, you ever done this before y 'all?
Yo, you look scared,
you gotta be ready for this y 'all,
cause it's on, ain't no turning back now.
I thought you wanted to be hard
Come on my nigga,
get in the car, let's go
Let's make a move
Shorty wanna be a gangster
Do you got what it take to be a gangster?
I said shorty wanna be a gangster
But do you got what it take
to be a gangster?
I'm working hard to keep what little I get
They wanna take it so they scheme
Like wait upon a triple beam
I know they making plenty green
And I'm hurtin' baby,
warehouse jobs drive me crazy
They smoke these squares back to back
In that red and black lumberjack
whip back pain
That make me wanna quit
Every day, so I think about a lick
That involved the M .O .B.
I know they down for me,
money go round four ways
Let's get paid in a hurry
God bless me, please
If I have to bury me, a devil on the way
But thinkin' that I'm a
slave all in low key
Where you gon' take me?
See, the money come savage,
T -Mobile I got to have it
When comes to this rappin' it's like,
we got to eat shit, sleeps on,
many incompletes on,
that go unheard like that bird food drop,
over by the gym,
where that man fat built.
Shawty wanna be a gangster,
do you got what it take to be
a gangster?
Shawty wanna be a gangster,
but do you got what it take to
be a gangster?
Shawty wanna be a gangster,
maybe a fairy tale up in the jade,
gangsta.
Puppy waggin' his tail,
that's what he lookin' like to me
I smoke it down to the green
line every time
Dirty fingernails,
sell grams to the keys
Hydroponic weed barrels,
other way full of seeds
Pay a junkie just to pick
the boogers out
Stash a few up in the house,
waitin' on the drop
It always come
Every year,
don't know the month or day
Say, say, but it always come
Yeah, yeah, right on time
Heard about Lil' Shawty,
took his back out with the K
Guess them Beacher
niggas ain't talkin'
They sprayin',
sorta like the feds investigated
Day -Day on the low,
Diablo lockdown, 254
Came up with the greasy, the sleazy
Kill a motherfucker over
a lil' Beasley, 20
Keep my mind on my billboards,
split poles on purpose
And whenever I show up,
baby, it's a circus
Keep my eyes on my pride,
surrounded by my workers
Dickie Suze, Chuckie Boots,
buddy, that's a gangster
Assassinate your sons,
take your oil and your land
Understand that's a gangster
Still me, it's from the blue collar
chillin' that's a gangster
Bob Dylan on the beat,
tall ceilin' that's a gangster
Nigga, that's a gangster
Shawty wanna be a gangsta
You got what it take to be
a gangsta
Shawty wanna be a gangsta
But do you got what it take to
be a gangsta?
Shawty wanna be a gangsta
You got what it take to be a gangsta
Shawty wanna be a gangsta
But do you got what it take
to be a gangsta?
Now that's gangsta
To get in a boat and sail
the transatlantic
took the west coast of Africa
and steal some black folk
Bring them to a place
their mama and daddy didn't know
A fickle folk,
hundred years on the blow
Afterwards they deal with everything,
then the USA be no more
That ass gangster, like Idi Amin
Get out my land white man,
prepare to die if you don't leave
Shout and plead, this song
That nigga wrong,
gangsters don't be alone
They get locked up and die
like Jesse James and Al Capone
So preserve your youth,
they sip heavily and blow strong
Live a brain, sales laws be gone
They say fuck a car,
know that whip shit isn't wrong
The DEA be tappin' they cellular phone
The fed be posted off,
I start a million dollar home
Went like visions and sat like dishes,
so be on your PCU
Gangsters attract,
I'm half a snake, bitches
And if enough pressure is applied,
songs stay solid
Others turn straight snitches
Property of the state,
fact you got what it take
Get on O .T. Bush's shit list
Ain't no escape, shawty,
won't you be like Alonzo Herndon
The first black millionaire of the eight
You know what I'm sayin', man?
1910, throw the mansion
on the canvas of Mars Brown, man
Shawty wanna be a gangster
You got what it take to be a gangster
Shawty wanna be a gangster
But do you got what it take
to be a gangster?
Shawty wanna be a gangster
You got what it take to be a gangster
I wanna be a gangsta
But do you got what it takes to be a gang
Goodie Mob 
