[00:00:00] I Don't Like To Dream About Gettin Paid - Tha Dogg Pound [00:00:30] Working L A tryin' to get paid tha right way [00:00:32] But somehow the right way don't pay [00:00:35] I'm comin' home late every night gotta struggle an fight [00:00:38] Wit' tha base heads on tha late night hype [00:00:40] Tryin' to creep in tha house through tha cut for what [00:00:43] So I won't be seen by none of the homies [00:00:45] But tha homie Nate Dogg spots me and say Yo what's happenin' [00:00:48] No you don't know me no more when ya pass me tha satin' [00:00:50] I said ah naw it ain't like that G I'm trying to go straight [00:00:54] And have a J O B you need to quit that fagot a** job [00:00:56] That's what he said [00:00:57] Showed me his grip and took some satin to tha head [00:01:00] Damn that ni**a had at least two G's [00:01:02] And he was clockin' it wit' so much ease [00:01:05] I told him I was gone so I'm headin' in tha house [00:01:07] Everybody knocked out so I'm locked out [00:01:09] I go back to tha front where my homies is hangin' at [00:01:12] They offer me a cabby sack so I can start slangin' dat [00:01:15] They say you ain't a hustler I say don't doubt it [00:01:17] Hold dat thought and I'll think about it 'cause [00:01:20] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:01:22] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:01:30] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:01:35] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:01:40] The thought's complete so let me take a seat [00:01:41] Since I was born and raised on tha streets [00:01:44] I quit tha job I had caught myself a sack [00:01:47] Went from a double of fifty into a ceno stack [00:01:49] Within' a week but my peak wouldn't reach [00:01:52] I was gettin' too known on tha north side of Long Beach [00:01:55] Niggas got to trippin' and I thought I heard it [00:01:57] So I went to tha hood on Twentieth and Murder [00:01:59] I came up quick with some homies dat I knew from way way back [00:02:03] And bid my sack or maybe it's seven or was it eight hundred strong [00:02:07] In other words Daz had it goin' on I bought myself a bucket [00:02:11] That's right a bucket b**ch who you f**k in my car on my dick [00:02:14] My life self switched a bit but my attitude didn't [00:02:17] I told all my old b**ches good riddance [00:02:19] 'Cause when you got money hoes come automatically [00:02:21] And no hoes don't do nothing but cause some static see [00:02:24] I went from khakis to guess braids to a fade [00:02:26] I'm not Special Ed but I had it made [00:02:29] Livin' tha life of a baller care free [00:02:31] Havin' b**ches dyin' to sleep wit me ya see [00:02:34] But I went bankrupt from all the spending and gamblin' [00:02:36] Business was gettin' slow and I wasn't handlin' [00:02:39] Mine tha way I was supposed to [00:02:41] Now I'm broke and on a jack mission so don't get close to [00:02:44] Tha D P G gang 'cause we scandalous when we broke [00:02:47] We get tha doggs in us we get ta actin' like some [00:02:50] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:02:54] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:02:59] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:03:03] I don't like to dream about gettin' paid [00:03:09] Last night I had a dream felt so good it had to be [00:03:14] Me and my homies were gettin' paid man oh man we had it made [00:03:18] Some homies want to roll wit' me some homies claim insanity [00:03:23] Well if you want to set trip I will if you don't want to drop be still [00:03:28] Damn I can't believe this but you can best believe this today [00:03:31] I'm on another mission to get paid serve what I can serve right [00:03:34] So my pockets will stack up ni**a don't trip ni**a back up [00:03:38] I gots to react off the first impulse I find [00:03:41] But my mama thinks I should take my time and work for mines [00:03:45] But how much work would it take and how much money would I make [00:03:48] Wait theres somethin' I gotta think about [00:03:50] But I ain't got that much time moms want a ni**a out tha house [00:03:53] I ain't gettin' no younger I'm only gettin' older