[00:00:00] The Product - Ice Cube (艾斯·库伯) [00:00:22] I was told cause I didn't witness the whole act [00:00:24] In and out was the movement of the bozack [00:00:27] It was hot and sweaty and lots of pushin [00:00:29] Then the nut came gushin [00:00:31] And it was hell tryin to bail to the ovary [00:00:33] With nuttin but the Lord lookin over me [00:00:35] I was white with a tail [00:00:37] But when I reached the finish line [00:00:38] Young black male [00:00:40] One cell made two and two cells made fo' [00:00:42] And so on so now I'm a embryo [00:00:44] Then I got a hunch [00:00:46] That I'ma be on lockdown for nine months [00:00:48] Chillin with my mother to guide me [00:00:50] And nuttin but a stomach to hide me [00:00:53] From all that worry and bullshit [00:00:55] Nine months later I elbow pull and kick [00:00:57] Cause my time is up and I don't care [00:00:59] With one big push I'm outta there [00:01:01] June 15th it's just my luck [00:01:03] In 1969 a ni**a is the product [00:01:07] "Ghetto a** ni**a you ain't sh*t [00:01:08] And you ain't gon' never be sh*t " [00:01:15] I learned how to walk and talk and all that [00:01:17] They put me in school but it don't matter [00:01:19] Cause I'm sittin in history [00:01:20] Learnin bout a sucker [00:01:22] Who didn't give a f**k about me [00:01:24] They try to shape us [00:01:25] But I know Uncle Sam is a motherf**kin rapist [00:01:27] So I stopped payin attention [00:01:29] Ice Cube headed straight to detention [00:01:32] F**k that sh*t I roam the hallways [00:01:34] I'm sent home and I don't got all A's [00:01:36] A high school dropout [00:01:38] My father had beef so I tried to knock pops out [00:01:41] But I got tossed he's the boss [00:01:43] I'm out of there and mad cause I lost [00:01:45] Now bein on my own is a factor [00:01:47] So I become the neighborhood jacker [00:01:50] Gimme your car run your jewels [00:01:52] Makin a livin robbin fools [00:01:54] And if I let my nine rang out [00:01:56] You know it'll make your brains hang out [00:01:58] So what's your fate [00:02:00] Am I the ni**a you love or the one you love to hate [00:02:02] The wrong answer is said the ni**a fled [00:02:04] I pump lead now he's in a puddle of red [00:02:07] And if you got a buck you're sh*t out of luck [00:02:09] Stuck up by the motherf**kin product [00:02:11] "Uh-uh motherf**ker you gots to get a job [00:02:13] If you wanna stay in my motherf**kin house" [00:02:15] "Many young men reject the traditional values [00:02:17] That are important to their parents [00:02:19] Church school and family [00:02:21] Have been replaced by street turf and gang " [00:02:28] Twenty-one now and paid in full [00:02:31] Feelin bad from all the sh*t I pulled [00:02:33] On people back in the day [00:02:35] Plus I got a little baby on the way [00:02:37] So I'm tryin to go straight [00:02:39] I'm with my baby's momma out on a date [00:02:41] Til the punk a** cops ran my plate [00:02:44] Now I'm on a bus upstate [00:02:46] "Oh the young ni**a done caught a case " [00:02:49] "Sittin in the mess hall sayin my grace" [00:02:50] Sent to a concrete hoe-house [00:02:52] Where all the products go no doubt [00:02:55] Yo momma I gotta do eleven [00:02:56] Livin in a five by seven [00:02:59] Dear baby your man's gettin worn out [00:03:01] Of seein young boys gettin they assholes torn out [00:03:04] And then he got shanked with a spoon [00:03:06] And he was 'sposed to get out soon [00:03:07] Is it my fault he was caught in production [00:03:10] Where a young black life means nothin [00:03:12] Just because I didn't want to learn your grammar [00:03:14] You say I'm better off in the slammer [00:03:16] And it's drivin me batty [00:03:18] Cause my little boy is missin daddy [00:03:20] I'm ashamed but the fact is [00:03:23] I wish pops let me off on the mattress [00:03:26] Or should I just hang from the top bunk [00:03:28] But that's goin out like a punk [00:03:30] My life is F**KED [00:03:31] But it ain't my fault cause I'm the motherf**kin product [00:03:33] "He ain't sh*t"