the day the niggaz took over

Singer:dr. dre

i'ma say this and i'ma gettin mine. if you ain't down for the africans

here in the united states

period point blank. if you ain't down for the

ones that suffer in south africa from apartheid and shit. devil you need to

step your punk ass to the side and let us brothers and us africans step in

and start puttin some funk in that ass

break em off sometin

i got my finger on the trigger so niggaz wonder why

but livin in the city it's do-or-die

they wonder where me bailin and don't really understand

the reason why they take me life and me? hand

me not out for peace and me not rodney king

me gun goes click

me gun goes bang

them riot in compton and them riot in long beach

them rion in they lakers and don't really wanna see

niggaz start to loot and police start to shoot

lock it down at seven o'clock

then again it's like beirut

me don't show no love cuz it's us against them

them never ever love me cuz it's sport to break de

and kill at my own risk if i may

delay to spray with my ak and put it to rest

yes we have. there have been riots

ahh

rioting

well i don't wanna say

rioting but there's been looting downtown

but right now bree

what i want

to show you is

they have started fires down at the end of the street

how many niggaz are ready to lose?

yeah

so what you wanna do?

what you wanna do?

i said how many niggas are ready to lose

got myself an uzi and my brother a 9

nobody told us today

in otherwords

you're still a slave. no matter how

much money you got

you still ain't shit

sittin in my livin room calm and collected

feelin mad

gotta get mine respected

cuz what i just heard broke me in half

and half the niggaz i know

plus the niggaz on the row

is bailin

laugh now but cry much later

ya see when niggas get together they get mad cuz they can't fade us

like my niggas from south central

los angeles

they find that they couldn't handle us

bloods

crips on the same squad

with the ese's thumpin

nigga it's time ta rob and mob

(and break the white man off somthin lovely

biddy-bye-bye

i don't love dem so they can't love me)

yo straight puttin down gettin my scoot on

let's jump in off in compton so i gots ta get my loot on

and come up on me some furniture or sometin

got a vcr

in the back of my car

that i ganked from the slauson swap meet

and motherfuckers better not try to stop me

cuz they will see that i can't be stopped

cuz i'ma cock my glock and pop til they all drop

there has been videotape and you can see of the

aah

some of the crowd

throwin things at the officers

and swingin at them as well. like there was a young woman there. you see

she took a swing at an officer with some object in her hand

how many niggaz are ready to lose?

yeah

so what you wanna do?

what you wanna do?

i said how many niggas are ready to lose

got myself an uzi and my brother a 9

i got my finger on the trigger so niggaz wonder why

but livin in the city it's do-or-die

one-time trigger happy

no nigga love

187 time

time to grab the glove

can't get prints so a 9 i throw away

or get prints so my uzi witta spray

pop pop pop another motherfucker drop

and i get relived like *?bop bop says?*

smash

i crashed his head like a window

i ain't no dead do'

i'm high off the indo

creepin with the quickness to the cut

bust one to his head while he munches on that donut

and cracker so now he best to back up

i guess i gots ta pack up

fillin the clip up

i zip up-

town

the motherfuckin cops are all around

helicopters flyin

these motherfuckers tryin

to catch me and stretch me on death row

but hell no's the poor black refuse to go

this is now coverin a very

very wide area of los angeles where these

fires have been

aah

ignited. i mean

from here to the

aah

to the south

end of south central is a long way

break em off sometin

the outcome of this is destruction so the more fall

niggaz don't give a fuck so tem bust and before

niggaz backin up three black shows

no justice so they copied ya right

and here i am again

me

turn the other cheek

me

be too many wigs got me 9 to my tights

so me bust

flick cuz he don't give a fuck

and me don't give a fuckin of my problems

in with their fuck fuck

blak blam

blam to dem fall

listen to the shots from my nigga doggy dogg

biddy-bye

dr dre him bust gun shots

diggity daz and rbx them bust gun shots

come again!

Lyric Context: the day the niggaz took over - dr. dre