Mr. Criminal - Music to Me

Back when I was growing up
Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren
And then NWA were blowing up
Fuck the police, had it sewn up
Middle fingers to the law
Everybody throw it up
Back when Ice Cube left with it
Young(?) started Ice-T, made the feds
Take em off the charts
And Too $hort had em screaming out "BITCH"
And had the whole west coast banging out hits

I started banging around the same time
Dre drop The Chronic, by the time Doggystyle dropped I was a smokeaholic puffing on California's bombest
I had 20 in the looneys, had 5 on it
I was raised in the days of AKs
And homies posted up in them alleys with spray paint
And gangsta rap will just describe how us gangstas act
Smoking up on a sack, banging Roger & Zapp

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This is music to me, the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me, a way to reminisce smoking out making music like this
This is music to me, it's something I'm addicted to, can't you tell in this music that I'm giving you
This is music to me, it helped me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something thats bumping

Now alot rappers got down
Representing kept it true
But up until that point
Now get a brown point of view
Then Lighter Shade came
And everybody bumped it
"Chillin at the park on a Sunday Night", I loved it
Then Kid Frost came and hit em with "La Raza"
Slowly opened up doors now Lil Rob watcha
Then Proper Dos came with underground heat
We're at it again with Frank V and Ernie G

These were the things that I bumped coming up on my neighborhood smoking on skunk
These were the songs I used to bang to, slang caine to, act up and go insane to
This is the soundtrack to my life putting in work and straight smashing through the nights
I used to think of rhymes myself just to escape the sights, turn the system up and close my eyes

〈Chorus〉
This is music to me, the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me, a way to reminisce smoking out making music like this
This is music to me, it's something I'm addicted to, can't you tell in this music that I'm giving you
This is music to me, it helped me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something that's bumping

I used to love music so much
I use to sit in front of the radio listen to 92.3
And 106 on the stereo had a cassette all ready
In the tape deck, push and record on different tracks
I get couldn't afford to get
But now shits change I make my own music in my own studio produce my own shit
I make fools head bob, from France to Japan, Italy and Vietnam
And back to the west coast
Where the music that influence me is still the best though

It's the new west breed Mr. muthafucking Criminal from the HPG
This is music to me my heaviest addiction from morning to the night
I'm stuck in a position
Where music constantly flowing through my head, haha yea but at least I'm getting bread from it

〈Chorus〉
This is music to me, the soundtrack to my life helping me make my wrong's turn to rights
This is music to me, a way to reminisce smoking out making music like this
This is music to me, It's something I'm addicted to, can't you tell in this music that I'm giving you
This is music to me, It helped me come from nothing to something, giving everybody something that's bumping