Hope I Don't Go Back - W/Intro

Yeah, yeah, I done got too big to be

Hoppin' over barbwire fences, right?

But I had this one broad, she was so damn sprung

She used to hold my dirty work for me, man

In a what? In a, uh, in a, in a VHS canister

In a VHS canister, ayy (Yeah)

I promise you playboy, this game has been so damn good

So damn good (Said this rap game's been good to me)

Hard times

But I don't know how long that's gonna be, yeah

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (Don't wanna go)

Slangin' yayo (Slangin' what?)

To get my mayo (Oh no)

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (Don't wanna go back)

Slangin' yayo (Slangin' what?)

To get my mayo (To get)

Been a hustler since birth, mama sellin' dinners for the church

Red-handed, caught me stealin' money out her purse

Got branded, permanent whip scars on my back

'Cause I used to get beat with racin' car tracks

But now me got wealth, holdin' a conference

Call on my hands-free car telephone

Lookin' like I'm talkin' to myself, shootin' the breeze

Cuttin' it up real tough like choppin' it up like true business men

Talkin' about, "By the way, B, what we do this week on sales, kid?"

If I ain't in Japan, I'm in the Valley

Or maybe next door in Gary Payton's bowling alley

Or maybe at the shootin' range, me and Banks man

Or on the golf course with Merton Hanks

Overlookin' the sun, give me my propers

With a view that's out of this world, lookin' down on doctors

Sippin' on port, watchin' my kids play basketball in the backyard

On a forty by sixty-three foot long sports court (What?)

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (Huh?)

Slangin' yayo (Slangin' what?)

To get my mayo

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (Slangin' what?)

Slangin' yayo (And what else?)

To get my mayo

Built a spot up in the wilderness, coyotes and wild boars

Dupont Registry aluminum pool table made strictly for outdoors

Twenty-inch chrome slipper braubers on my twelve

Feelin' that everybody ain't able

To be blessed with a successful ass

Independent record label, check it out

Marbles, I got the game from my uncle St. Charles

Used to bank across the street at Wells Fargos

But now it's Merrill Lynch, and just think

I used to sit the bench, I remember gettin' chased by the cops

Had to get my stomach pumped, swallowed a quarter ounce of rocks

Late afternoon, po-po waitin' for me outside of

Vallejo Kaiser Permanente emergency room with Glocks

Ready to Rodney King me to death

Somehow managed to make my escape through the back of

The cafeteria by the vending machine department quicker

Found myself runnin' through the Friendship apartment complex

Over there by the railroad tracks around the

Corner from the People's Continuation High School

Somewhere off in Locust, behind Jenae's liquor, ooh

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo

(Check it out, check it out)

Slangin' yayo

(Check it out, check it)

To get my mayo (Check it out)

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (I don't want to)

Slangin' yayo (Slang yayo)

To get my mayo (To get my mayo, check it out)

Dope game done gone

Now it's either white collar crime or hookin' up phones

"Charlie Hustle, I got a few mathematics

I'm doin' a compilation, should I go with funky phat graphics?"

I tell him, "Hell yeah, that's a done deal"

Dudin' 'em off the hinges

Dudin' 'em dip my cover and my bus benches

Game Wari-infested, Worldwide Sick Wid' It clique

Independent chips

See that there?

See, ayy, look, this what I'm sayin', I'ma tell you, it's a fool

'Cause your player partner'll take his other moneys, right?

And then he'll sit up there and he'll think

And then he'll say, "Hold on, mane

Let me have there some phone booths

Let me get off into the florist business, beefers, barber shops

Empty commercial lots, whatever

Fertilizes the right way of livin', mane"

You dig what I'm sayin', mane?

Ayy, look, playboy

And I look at myself and I say, "Hold on, man, let me slow it down

Let me translate it, let me translate it into some marbles

Let me liquidate my revenells, you understand

What I'm sayin', 40 Water and them"

Ayy, but look here, I'm here to sprinkle

My Godzilla ballin' playboy partners

And teach 'em about the game Wari-infested

Situations that goes down in they life

I ain't playin' with it, man

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo (I ain't playin' with it, man)

Slangin' yayo

To get my mayo

There's too many jealous brothers in this game

I can't stand to say, yeah, yeah

I gotta get my money, yeah

I hope I don't go back to slangin' yayo

Get my money, yo

Slangin' yayo

To get my mayo

Hey, yeah

Don't wanna go

Don't wanna go, no, no

Don't wanna go

Don't wanna go back

Back to the game

Hey