It Takes a Nation
Ice Cube

There are seven known wonders of the world,
You about to witness the eighth motherfucker

[Verse 1]
I got King Kong in my trunk,
King Kong in my doors
My nuts play ping-pong from the noise;
You can hear me from a block away
I'm sitting next to your ass and cant hear what you got to say
My shit is loud, my ears is ringing
My paint job is wet
My chrome is gleaming
I feel like a vet ballin' on these rookies
An old-school bully, you must have played hooky
I bring it like a bookie,
My aggression is depressing
Don't give a motherfucker time to learn his lesson
A lunatic, yall know what I represent
The only rapper that wanna fist-fight the president

[Chorus]
It takes a nation of niggas to hold us back [Repeat: x4]

[Verse 2]
When I bang this its dangerous
Niggas go brainless
So bang this with the four-five stainless
And understand that you looking at the famous
West-coast rapper who act like an anus
Hollywood, they thought they could tame this
Pit-bull, but I know what the game is
Them fuckers cheat like an NBA ref
If you smoke one now,
They'll electrocute you to death
I got god on my intellect
Godzilla by the neck
When the nigga come through, who you wanna holla at
Ghostwriters hit the deck
When ya boi got a tech
Where the fuck is Africa-Bamabata at
We need to take it back, fuck Viacom
Clear Clear Channel and Radio One
You motherfuckers programmed by the programmers
That's why you getting locked up by the dope slammers
Not me

[Chorus]

[Verse 2]
They music so fluffy, I'ma stay gutter
That shit is kinda popcorn, my shit is so butter
My style never change in 22 summers
Straight independent and doing my numbers
This shit don't sell, you know I'm still paid
So sour-puss niggas, can drink lemonade
I'm doin' it for the love
You doing it because
You need that advancement to spend on them dubs
I don't need a penny, but I need many
Don't worry bout ma money boi, cause I got plenty
You motherfuckers worry bout flossing so much
You don't know the fundamentals, you forgot how to brush
These thirty-two teeth
Will give your ass grief
Bite you like a fat burger if you got beef
So whose it gonna be, your favorite MC
Your scared of the government, they scared of me
Now what?

[Chorus]

It takes a nation of niggas and streets of crack


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  Sic Them Youngins On Em   $100 Bill, Y'all   $100 Dollar Bill Y'All [From All About the Benjami...   $100 Dollar Bill Ya'll   $100 Dollar Bill Ya'll   2 Decades Ago   2 Decades Ago (insert)   2 N the Morning   24 MC Hours   24 Mo' Hours   24 Mo' Hours   24 Wit An L   24 With an L   3 Strikes You In   A Bird in the Hand   A Bitch is a Bitch   A Boy Was Conceived   A Boy Was Conceived (Intro)   A Gangsta's Fairytale   A Gangsta's Fairytale   A History Of Violence   Alive on Arrival   All Day Every Day   All Day, Every Day   AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted   Amerikkka's Most Wanted   Anybody Seen The Popo's   Anybody Seen The PoPo's?!   Anybody Seen The PoPo's?!   Anybody Seen The PoPos?   Architect Of Gangsta Rap   Ask About Me   Behind Gates   Bend A Corner Wit Me   Better Off Dead   Big Thangs   Bird in the Hand   Bird In The Hand Lyrics   Black and White   Black Korea   Black. White.   Black. White.   Blackboy   Bop Gun   Bop Gun (One Nation)   Bop Gun (One Nation) (Edit)   Bop Gun (One Nation) [Radio Edit]   Bow Down   Bow Down - Westside Connection   Bow Down (West Side Connection)   Bow Down (Westside Connection)   Burn Hollywood Burn   Can You Bounce   Can You Bounce?   Cash Over   Cash over Ass   Cave B****   Cave Bitch   Check Yo Self   Check Yo Self - Das EFX   Check Yo Self ("Message" Remix)   Check Yo Self (Featuring Das EFX)   Check Yo Self (Remix)   Check Yo Self (Remix) (Featuring Das Efx)   Check Yo Self [Remix Instrumental][Instrumental]   Check Yo Self [Remix]   Check Yo Self [Remix] (feat. Das EFX)   Check Yo Self [The Message Remix]   Check Yourself (Video Edit)   Cheddar   Child Support   Child Support (Album Version)   Children of the Korn   Chin Check   Chrome & Paint   Chrome & Paint   Chrome And Paint   Cinta   Click, Clack - Get Back!   Cold Places   Color Blind   Colorblind   Come & Get It   Come And Get It   Concrete   Connected for Life   Connected for Life [Clean Album]   Connected for Life [Main/Clean]   Crack Baby   Crack Baby [*]   Crack Baby?   Crowded   Dead Homiez   Death   Definition Of A West Coast G (Intro)   Definitions Of A West Coast G (Intro)   Dewick   Dimes & Nicks   Dimes & Nicks (A Call from Mike Epps)   Dimes & Nicks (A Call From Mike Epps)   Dirty Mack   Do Ya Thang   Do Your Thang   Dodgers Anthem 2013   Doin' What It 'Pose 2Do   Doin' What It 'pose 2Do   Doing Dumb Sh**   Doing Dumb Shit   Don't Make Me Hurt Ya Feelings   Don't Make Me Hurt Ya Feelings [*]   Don't Trust 'em   Don't Trust Em   Don't Trust 'em   Down For Whatever   Dr. Frankenstein   Drink the Kool-Aid   Drink The Kool-Aid (Single)   Drop Girl   Drop Girl (Remix)   Endangered Species (Tales From The Dark Side) (fea...   Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside)   Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) (Feat...   Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside) [Remi...   Endangered Species (Tales from the Darkside) [Remi...   Enemy   Everybody Wants You   Everythang's Corrupt (Single)   Everythang\u2019s Corrupt   Extradition   Fat Cat   First Day Of School (Intro)   Friday   Friday [Beat]   Friday [From Friday]   Fuck Dying   Funeral   Game Over - DrDre   Gangsta Fairytale 2   Gangsta Nation   Gangsta Rap (Remix)   Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It   Gangsta's Fairytale 2   Gangsta's Fairytale, Pt. 2   Get Money, Spend Money, No Money   Get Money, Spend Money, No Money   Get off My *** and Tell Yo ***** to Come Here [Rem...   Get Off My Dick & Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here (Re   Get Off My Dick And Tell Yo Bitch To Come Here (Re...   Get Off My Dick and Tell Yo' Bitch to Come Here (R...   Get Use to It   Get Use To It   Get Used To It   Get Used To It (ft. WC & The Game)   Ghetto Bird   Ghetto Horror Show   Ghetto Vet   Ghetto Vet [From I Got the Hook Up]   Ghetto Vet [Instrumental]   Ghetto Vet [LP Version]   Givin' Up The Nappy Dug Out   Givin' up The Nappy Dugout   Givin' Up The Nappy Dug Out   Go to Church   Go To Church (Clean)   Gotta Be Insanity   Grand Finale   Greed   Growin Up   Growin' Up   Growing Up   Hand of the Dead Body   Heaven   Hell Low   Hello   Hello (Featuring Dr.Dre & M.C. Ren)   Hello [*]   Hello [Instrumental]   Hello [Radio Edit]   Here He Come   Here He Come   Higher   Higher [From Higher Learning]   Holla @ Cha' Boy   Holla At Cha Boy   Hoo-Bangin'   Hood Mentality   Hood Robbin   Hood Robbin'   Hood Robbin'   Horny Lil' Devil   Horny Lil' Devil   Horny Little Devil   How To Survive In South Central   How to Survive in South Central [*]   How to Survive in South Central [Boyz N the Hood]   How We Do It   I Got My Locs On   I Gotta Say What Up!!   I Gotta Say What Up!!!   I Rep That West   I Rep That West (Single)   I Wanna Kill Sam   I'm Only Out For One Thang   I'm Only Out For One Thang (Featuring Flavor Flav)   I'm Only Out For One Thang   Ice Cube - It Was A Good Day   If I Should Die Before I Wake   If I Was Fuckin' You   If I Was Fucking You   In the Late Night Hour   Irresistible (West Side Connection)   It Is What It Is   It Was a Good Day   It Was a Good Day (Remix)   It's A Man's World   It's A Man's World Feat.Yo-Yo   It's A Man's World"(feat. Yo-Yo   It's All Hood   It's A Man's World   Jack In The Box   Jack N the Box   Jackin For Beats   Jackin' for Beats   Jd's Gaffilin' (Part 2)   Keep It Gangsta   Killas   Last Wordz   Late Night Hour   Laugh Now, Cry Later   LAX   Let it Rain   Life in California   Lil Ass Gee   Lil Ass Gee (Eerie Gumbo Remix)   Limos, Demos & Bimbos   Limos, Demos & Bimbos"(feat. Mr. Short Khop   Limos, Demos & Bimbos   Look Who's Burnin'   Look Who's Burning   Look Who's Burnin'   Make It Ruff Make It Smooth   Make It Ruff, Make It Smooth   Make It Ruff, Make It Smooth (Featuring K-Dee)   Man Vs Machine   Man Vs. Machine   Man's Best Friend   Man's Best Friend   Maniac In The Brainiac   Maniac In The Braniac   Men of Steel   Mental Warfare   Mental Warfare (Insert)   Mixtape Shit   My Loved One   My Loved One (Featuring Mr. Short Khop)   My Skin Is My Sin   My Summer Vacation   N**** of the Century   Natural Born Killaz   Natural Born Killaz - DrDre   Natural Born Killaz [From Murder Was the Case: The...   Natural Born Killaz [From Murder Was the Case: The...   Nigga of the Century   No Country for Young Men   No Vaseline   No Vaseline [*]   Nothing Like L..A.   Nothing Like L.A.   Now I Gotta Wet 'Cha   Now I Gotta Wet'Cha   Now I Gotta Wet'cha   Once Upon a Time in the Projects   Once Upon A Time In The Projects 2   Once upon a Time in the Projects, Pt. 2   Only in California   Penitentiary   Pimp Homeo   Pimp Homeo (Insert)   Pros Vs Joes   Pros Vs. Joes   Pushin Weight Remix   Pushin' Weight   Pushin' Weight [LP Version]   Pushin' Weight"(feat. Mr. Short KHOP   Pushin' Weight   Raider Nation   Raised in the Hood   Really Doe   Reckless in the Booth   Record Company Pimpin'   Record Company Pimpin'   Right Here Right Now   Right Here, Right Now   Right Here, Right Now (w/ Paul Oakenfold)   Right Here, Right Now [From Blade 2]   Ring Ding Dong   Robbin' Hood (Cause it Ain't All Good)   Robbin' Hood (Cause It Ain't All Good)   Robin Lench   Roll All Day   Roll All Day [From Gone in 60 Seconds]   Rollin' Wit The Lench Mob   Rollin' Wit The Lench Mob   Sasquatch   Say Hi to the Bad Guy   Set It Off   She Couldn't Make It On Her Own   Should I Stay or Should I Go   Sic Them Youngin's On Em   Sic Them Youngins On 'E   Sic Them Youngins On 'em   Sic Them Youngins On 'Em   Sic Them Youngins On Em   Smoke Some **** (Album Version)   Smoke Some Weed   Something To Think About   Soul on Ice   Spittin' Pollaseeds   Spittin' Pollaseeds   Stand Tall   State of Emergency   Steady Mobbin   Steady Mobbin'   Steal the Show   Steal The Show   Stop Snitchin'   Stop Snitchin'   Stop Snitchin’ (Album Version)   Stop Snitchin’ (feat. Swizz Beatz) (Album Versio...   Street Fighter   Streetz Illustrated   Supreme Hustle   Take Me Away   Take Me Away   Tales From The Darkside   Tales From the Darkside (Remix)   Tales From The Darkside"(feat. Chuck D   Thank God   Thank God   The Big Show   The Bomb   The Bonnie and Clyde Theme   The Curse Of Money   The Curse Of Money"(feat. Mack 10   The Funeral   The Game Lord   The Game Lord   The Guppies   The Gutter Shit   The Gutter Shit (Featuring Jayo Felony, Gangsta & ...   The Gutter Shit"(feat. Gangsta, Jayo Felony, Squee...   The Looters   The N**** Ya Love to Hate   The N***a Trapp   The Nigga Of The Century   The Nigga Trapp   The Nigga Ya Love To Hate   The Peckin' Order   The Peckin' Order"(feat. Mack 10   The Peckin' Order   The Predator   The Product   The Shot   The Shot (Intro)   The World is Mine   The World Is Mine [[from Dangerous Ground]   The Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit   The Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit [From Bullworth]   The Wrong Nigga To Fuck With   Three Strikes You In   Today Was A Good Day   Today Was A Good Day (Remix)   Tomorrow   Too West Coast   Trespass   Trespass (Featuring ice t)   Trespass [From Trespass]   True to the Game   Turn off the Radio   Two To The Head   U Ain't Gonna Take My Life   U Ain't Gonna Take My Life   Until We Rich   Until We Rich (Featuring Krayzie Bone)   Until We Rich"(feat. Krayzie Bone   Urbanian   Us   Waitin' Ta Hate   Waitin' Ta Hate   Wanna Ride   War & Peace   War & Peace   We Be Clubbin   We Be Clubbin'   We Be Clubbin' (clark World Remix)   We Be Clubbin' [From the Players Club]   We Had to Tear This Motha----- Up   We Had to Tear This Mothafucka Up   We Had To Tear This Muthafucka Up   West Up!   Westside Slaughterhouse   Westside Slaughterhouse [Edited]   Westward Ho [Edited]   What Can I Do   What Can I Do?   What Can I Do? (Eastside Remix)   What Can I Do? (Remix)   What Can I Do? [Remix]   What Is A Pyroclastic Flow?   What Is a Pyroclastic Flow?   What They Hittin' Foe   What They Hittin' Foe?   What They Hittin' Foe?   What They Hittn' Foe?   When I Get to Heaven   When I Get to Heaven (Remix)   When I Get to Heaven [Remix]   When Will They Shoot   When Will They Shoot?   Where Ya At   Where Ya At?   Where Ya At? [Album Version]   Who Are You Lovin   Who Are You Lovin'   Who Got The Camera   Who Got the Camera?   Who's The Mack   Who's The Mack?   Who's The Mack?   Why Me   Why Me?   Why We Thugs   Why We Thugs (Album Version)   Wicked   Wicked - LP Version   Wicked [Instrumental]   Wicked Wayz   Wrong Nigga to Fuck Wit   X Bitches   X-Bitches   Y'all Know How I Am   Ya'll Know How I Am   You Ain't Gotta Lie (Ta Kick It)   You Ain't Gotta Lie Ta Kick It   You Ain't Gotta Lie Ta Kick It"(feat. Chris Rock   You Ain't Gotta Lie Ta Kick It   You Can Do It   You Can Do It [From Next Friday]   You Can Do It [Instrumental]   You Can Do It"(feat. Mack 10, Ms. Toi   You Can't Fade Me   You Can't Fade Me / JD's Gaffilin'   You Can't Fade Me/J.D.'s Gaffilin'   You Can't Fade Me   You Don't Wanna Fuck Wit These   You Don't Wanna Fuck Wit These (Unreleased '93 Shi   You Don't Wanna Fuck Wit These (Unreleased '93 Shi...   You Don't Wanna Fuck Wit These (Unreleased 93 Shit...   You Gotta Lotta That   You Gotta Lotta That   You Gotta Lotta That (feat. Snoop Dogg) (Album Ver...   You Know How We Do It   You Know How We Do It (Remix)   You Know How We Do It [Remix]   You Know I'm a Ho   You Know I'm a Hoe   Your Money or Your Life

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