Show Notes
It's the start of hip hop month! A month of talking about songs that prove I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to hip hop. We start things of with returning Star Wars-aficionado, Mark Brillon, and Krazyie Bone's "Thug Mentality" from Thug Mentality 1999. To listen, you'll have to find a copy of the CD or you can watch the cinematic music video:
And, for you literate types, the lyrics: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Thug Mentality"(feat. Bone-Thugs) [Chorus] T-H-U-G we be, that's thug mentality we thuggin, thuggin thuggin that's the way I chose to live my life
T-H-U-G we be, that's thug mentality we thuggin, thuggin thuggin thuggin till the day I die
T-H-U-G we be, that's thug mentality we thuggin, thuggin thuggin that's the way I chose to live my life
T-H-U-G we be, that's thug mentality we thuggin, thuggin thuggin thuggin till the day I die
I done been around da world and everywhere be da same song niggas struggle daily, gotta survive, its worldwide even niggas in Paris n London be hustlin doin whatever to get the money Looking at the whole big wide world ??? mighty thugs ??? But you gotta keep it real if you wanna make it, do ??? And make a ??? kids Gotta handle your business, gotta get in it to win it And then you gotta get up out of there baby And that's real, really, my thugs feel me put your fists up in the air, yeah Nigga comin' to the war and I'm a meet you niggas there Ready to rumble, and I swear, we're comin' from everywhere Where my thugs at? Where they at? Fuck that! Nigga let's do in the enemy now Terminate, eliminate 'em, I'm takin' out the frustration on the world Get 'em back for the playa hation So come on we gotta roll, and wouldn't you know? They ain't ready for the war, pop the ??? get arrested To the po-po, you in total control, make 'em feel the pain in two-double-oh-oh It's the end of the road, so what you gon' do? I'm a ride till we die, if you want to, (run too) Would all them real soldiers, come on move Get your suits on, boots on, keep troopin' on T-H-U-G, U-G, that's what we be, across the nation Pump your fists and get ready for this occasion Think you'd better fade on, Bone wanna see victory Y'all niggas better roll with this Cause we splittin' 'em, fuck that, we winnin', that's thug mentality
[Chorus]
Be a thug, if you wanna be a thug, be a thug if you got to Throw it up, keep it in the air, scream it out Thug, thug, thug, thug, thuggin' till the day I die When I'm high if you look into my eyes, you'll truly find No kind like I, Gemini, and it controls both sides My Lord he law, maintain, hard cause I'm a soldier at war Steady runnin' with the weapons cause it still ain't gettin' better Figured it out, it's all real, and if it ain't then it ain't right Come on, if you wanna feel the thug love And it's real, we got the real thing baby I hate to burn you, learn you, stay out of it if it don't concern you You don't really wanna get involved with the murder But shit, if you want it, you got it, we bring it, it don't stop We gon' pop shots still to the double glock-glock Never takin' no shorts, no losses mayn Yes, these days it's still the same like, gotta make that money, mayn Bang, gotta get down for my thang, and I do it so smooth When I'm stalkin' gatt fools, walkin jack moves And I'm on the run widda me shotgun, but a ??? it's on Ya'll can't fuck with the thuggish ruggish, ruggish bone, bone, bone bone bone - that's thug mentality
[Chorus]
Where my Detroit thugs, thugs Cincinatti thugs, thugs Where my Columbus thugs, thugs My Chicago thugs, thugs Where the fuck my New York thugs, thugs Where the fuck my Texas thugs, thugs My Kansas City thugs, thugs Where my Milwaukee thugs, thugs My Colorado thugs, thugs Where my St. Louis thugs, thugs Where my Atlanta thugs, thugs My Alabama thugs, thugs My New Orleans thugs, thugs Where my Miami thugs, thugs Where my Jamaican thugs, thugs
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