The song was also used in the Duckman episode “Coolio Runnings”.What you gonna play now
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Get on up. Get on up. Get on up. Get on up
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Every geto got a different name, but they all the same
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So Coolio loco gonna put you up on game
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We got homies who sell straps
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Homies who sell crack
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Homies who sell the bomb chronic sacks and fat dubs
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Giving the neighborhood niggas love
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Pimps, players, suckers, hoes, forty thieves, gangstas, and thugs
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Two hoodrats be scrapping over who knows what
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The loudmouth one loced up in front of the icecream truck
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And broke all of her lee nails where the big Gs live
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The little homie be gettin out on count
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This time he might get stuck attempted
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One eight seven and hes a minor with priors
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So the DA want him tried as an adult
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The big homey just had a son no joking
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I think his babys mom is smoking cause she always broke
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And the young girls is dressing more and more sleazy
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And everybody and their momma talking bout OJ and Eazy
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To the hoochies in the Hondas and Sentras
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Young niggas fightin their case with public defenders
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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To the niggas who smokin indo chocolate tired of stress
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Niggas who got warrants out for their arrest
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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Slap boxin with all the young hoochies watchin
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Dead cats in the street playing craps
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Niggas catchin dice with they feet
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Think they got the funk that one fool got stoked out
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Cos hes a mark with a gun
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The nosy bitch up the street called 9-1-1 now
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One time his d jacked a nigga and old bitch
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Licence and registration
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“All I got is a drivers permit”
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Niggas cant have shit we got dogs that rip but dont even trip
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Welcome to Southern California
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Liquor stores and churches on every other corner
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Your little brother plays pop warner
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Darks raided the dope spot
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Eight year old kid got shot cos they mistook his BB gun for a Glock
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And I aint forgot about the homey Lano
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He got killed by a sucker way back in the eighties oh
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I heard the homies mighties is ballin out of state
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He got himself off unemployment checks in Section 8
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Hey the homiez kickin it real
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Yeh I hear what hes sayin loc
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Sometimes its just like that in the hood
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Yeh dont nothin change of the game but the name
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Thats right you know thats right
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To the young hustlers thats trying to stack that knot up
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The house parties thats gonna always get shot up
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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Community programs to stop the violence
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All the niggas who loced up during the L.A. riots
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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The nigga with all 16 switches sitting On Ds
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Who got jacked he tried to pull out his gat
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Bullets exit through his back
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Now his momma in all black
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And niggas is going to the barber to get a fade
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They carried their dead homey to his grave
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Pour out a little liquor
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Homegirl down the street with the green eyes and big titties is getting
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Thicker
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Neighborhood clubs beat him up and crackheads be selling tvs and vcrs
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For forty bucks so whats up
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Yesterday the homey committed a bank caper
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Saw the chase on the news and read the story in todays paper
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His little girls just now taking training wheels off her bike
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While her daddys got twenty-five to life at Fort Strike
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The little homey just tripped and stripped
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Because he didnt realize that the joint was dipped
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Thats right
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OGs joining the nation and its all good
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B.Gs is retaliating cause they enemies done crossed out they hood
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Crackhead mommas smoking whole accounting checks
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Dopedealers who serve liquor pieces for sex
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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Young niggas going to school to be a doctor
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Late night sounds of gunshots and helicopters
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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To all the motherfuckers who think their shit dont stank
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Rollin on Ds and then appear for robbing banks
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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This is just a little something for a nigga
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Thats still gonna be a nigga if he dont get no bigger
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Be your own good ride
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Right right
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These are the geto hilites
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Get on up. Get on up. Get on up. Get on up
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Get on up. Get on up. Get on up. Get on up
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To fade…
