Ghetto Bird

"Ghetto Bird" [1993]

Ice Cube (1969-)

Why, oh why must you swoop through the hood

Like everybody from the hood is up to no good?

You think all the girls around here are trickin?

Up there lookin like Superchicken.

At night I see your light through my bedroom window.

But I ain't got shit but the pad and pencil.

I can't wait till I hear you say,

"I'm going down, Mayday, Mayday." I'm gonna clown.

Cause everytime that the pigs have got me

Y'all rub it in with the flying Nazi.

Military force, but we don't want ya.

Standin' on my roof with the rocket launcher.

"So fly like an eagle."

But don't follow us wherever we go.

The shit that I'm saying, make sure it's heard:

Motherfuck you and your punk-ass ghetto bird.

[Chorus:]

"Run, run, run, from the ghetto bird."

Now...

My homey's here to lick on a trick for a Rolex.

And let me try the four next.

Now the four I was driving was hotter than July.

Looked up and didn't see it whippin' in the sky

Saw a chopper with numbers on the bottom:

"Calling all cars, I think we've got em."

I hit the gas and I mashed past Inglewood.

I think I drove through every single hood.

South Central, Compton and Watts;

Long Beach, bust a U, here come the cops.

Wish I had a genie with about three wishes.

Metal flake green on D's I look suspicious.

You know that I'm running.

Shit, I hear it humming.

Fuck, I see it coming.

Is it a bird? Yup.

Is it a plane? No.

I hit me a right on El Segundo.

Wanted to holla, had to ditch the Impala.

Let's see if they would folla.

Me, hit a fence, hit a fence, and another.

Met me a baby pitbull and his mother.

Ran up in some people's house and looked out of the window.

I wish it was my ten-four.

Had to pull a strap on a fool named Louis the Third

Cuz I'm getting chased by the ghetto bird.

[News Chopper Reporter:]

"Just put his hat, uh, he combed his hair and then put his hat back

on. Uh, he's acting nonchalant up there in that cockpit, going 115

miles an hour, with the police chasing him. Uh, they're not gonna be

real happy when they catch up with him, no matter what, the uh...

Uh, they hate, they hate a bigmouth even worse."

Officer Bird's on his way, and I don't wanna see him.

Could you please give me the keys to the B.M.?

See, I didn't want to gank you,

But don't make me bank you. Thank you.

Tried to get to the hood, and you might guess

That a fool like me that shot Cyrus .

Incognito, Ghetto Eagle

Saying, "Fuck, where did he go?"

I bust me a left from Rubellon. Park

The 735 and I'm bailin.

Went to my homegirl's house and got a hug man.

She helped me run like Harriet Tubman.

Looked out the window by the black bed,

I saw the pigs and the four on a flatbed.

Then the light from the bird hit me in the face.

I close the blinds cause I didn't wanna catch a case.

All that night, I heard the bird circle

while I was eating fish and watching Urkel.

She said I could sleep on the couch.

By two A.M. I was digging her out.

Fuck the ghetto bird.

[News Chopper Reporter:]

"Which way is he going now?

"Ok, now..now he's..he's actually southbound..on a service street..

and, uh...Gee whiz, uh, I'm gonna get my maps out here and figure

out which service street he suddelny turned off on. Uh, the sherriffs

are..are...well I know that...Sherriffs ground units got thrown off"

Motherfuck you and your punk-ass ghetto bird.