Why We Thugs chords by
Ice Cube (Official Version)

2006Hip-hop130 views

Key: B minorDifficulty: Beginner

Intro 1

G/B

Chorus 1
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us

Verse 1
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
I'm from the land  of the gang bang
Since I was little,
Bm Bm 
 
ain't a god damn thang changed
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It's the same  ol same
Bm Bm 
 
Bush run shit like Sadaam Hussien
G/B G/B 
 
I cock and aim, clinically    insane
Bm Bm 
 
To deal with this bullshit day to day
G/B G/B 
 
If I sell some yay or smoke some hay
You bitches wanna throw me up
Bm Bm 
 
in Pelican's Bay
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Call me an animal up    in the system
Bm Bm 
 
But who's the animal that built this prison
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Who's the animal that invented lower living
Bm Bm 
 
The projects, thank God for Russell Simmons
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Thank God   for Sugarhill
Bm Bm 
 
I'm putting a different kind of steel
up to my grill
Y'all know what it is,
G/B G/B 
 
scared for your own kids
Bm Bm 
 
How these ghetto niggas taken over showbiz

Chorus 2
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us

Verse 2
Bm Bm 
 
It's Boyz in the Hood,
G/B G/B 
 
it's toys  in the hood
Y'all wanna know
Bm Bm 
 
why there's noise in the hood
Cause there's drugs in the hood,
G/B G/B 
 
thugs in the hood
Nigga killed a Crip and
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a Blood in the hood (For real)
G/B G/B 
 
Cause when niggas get tribal
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It's all about survival, nobody liable
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I got caught by Five-0
Grandmama came to court with her bible
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
But when the judge hit the gavel
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Now I'm too far from my family to travel
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I just came  unraveled
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Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
G/B G/B 
 
Owned by C.A, State Property
Bm Bm 
 
Just like the year fifteen fifty three
G/B G/B 
 
Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
Don't understand,
Bm Bm 
 
what's so hard to figure out?

Chorus 3
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us

Verse 3
Bm Bm 
 
(Damn) I can't take the pressure
Pulled the fo-fo up out the dresser
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
Grabbed the weight up out   the closet
Bm Bm 
 
Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it
G/B G/B 
 
Y'all know what happened last time  I lost it
Can't tell you niggas
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what the fuckin boss did
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D game got a nigga exhausted
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Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
G/B G/B 
 
Twenty years for what?
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Breaking these laws that's so  corrupt
G/B G/B 
 
Taking these halls and fillin 'em up
Some powder cake shit
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that's about to erupt
G/B G/B 
 
Ay y'all, I'm about  to be stuck
Until the year two thousand,
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what the fuck?
G/B G/B 
 
In the hood, don't press your luck
Bm Bm 
 
Cause these motherfuckers will set you up,

Chorus 4
word up
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us
G/B G/B 
 
They give us guns  and drugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
G/B G/B 
 
They wanna count the slugs
Bm Bm 
 
Then come around here and fuck with us

Outro 1
Bm Bm 
 
G/B G/B 
 
Every hood's the same
Bm Bm 
 
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
G/B G/B 
 
Every hood's the same
Bm Bm 
 
Every hood's the same,
stop trippin on it
G/B G/B 
 
Every hood's the same
Bm Bm 
 
Every hood's the same
Every hood's the same
G/B G/B 
 
Every hood's the same
Bm Bm 
 
Every hood's the same

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsBm G/B

Chords

Finger positions, low to high (E A D G B e). 0 is open, x is muted.

Bm: x-2-4-4-3-x
G/B: x-2-0-0-0-3

Capo: No capo

Transpose: 0

Accurately transcribed by the GuitarTuna team.

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This is the definitive original version of Why We Thugs by Ice Cube, transcribed exactly as it was recorded in the studio. Unlike our simplified arrangement, this chart preserves the precise chord voicings and progressions in the original key of B minor. It suits players who want to learn Why We Thugs the way Ice Cube intended, without oversimplifying the arrangement.

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