When Will They Shoot?

By Ice Cube

On The Predator

Released on November 17, 1992

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[Intro: Brother J]

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"


[Verse 1: Ice Cube]

Goddamn, another fuckin' payback with a twist

The motherfuckers shot but the punks missed

Ice Cube is outgunned, what is the outcome?

Will they do me like Malcolm?

'Cause I bust styles, new styles

Standin' strong, while others run a hundred miles

But I never run, never will

Deal with the devil with my motherfuckin' steel - Boom!

Media tried to do me

But I was a boy in the hood before the movie, yeah

Call me nigga, bigot, and a spook

But you the one that voted for Duke, motherfucker

White man is somethin' I tried to study

But I got my hands bloody, yeah

They said I could sing like a jaybird

But nigga, don't say the J-word

I thought they was buggin'

'Cause to us, Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven

Burnin' our black skin

Buy my neighborhood, then push the crack in

Doin' us wrong from the first day

And don't understand why a nigga got an AK

Callin' me an African-American

Like everything is fair again, shit

Devil, you got to get the shit right

I'm black, blacker than a trillion midnights

"Don't Believe The Hype" was said in '88 by the great Chuck D

Now they're tryin' to fuck me!


[Segue: Ice Cube]

"With no Vaseline

Just a match and a little bit of gasoline" (Huh!)


[Verse 2: Ice Cube]

It's a great day for genocide (What's that?)

That's the day all the niggas died

They killed JFK in '63

So what the fuck you think they'll do to me?

But I'm the OG and I bust back (Boom, boom!)

Bust back (Boom, boom!), peel a cap (Boom, boom!)

Gimme room in the fire of the sun

Here the Mack come, here the Black come, watch Jack run!

Motherfuckers can't gank me

Fuck a devil, fuck a rebel, and a Yankee

Overrun and punk the Presidency

If it means that I'm down with O.P.P., yeah!

I met Farrakhan and had dinner

Now you ask if I'm a Five Percenter? Well

No, but I go where the brothers go

Down with Compton Mosque, Number 54

Made a little dough, still got a sister on my elbow

Did Ice Cube sell out? You say, "Hell no!"

A black woman is my manager, not in the kitchen

So could you please stop bitchin'?

[Chorus: Ice Cube & Brother J]

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

Yeah, yeah

"But when will they shoot?"

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

Yeah, yeah

"But when will they shoot?"

(*Gunshots*)


[Verse 3: Ice Cube]

You missed, and didn't hit Da Lench Mob, either

Guerrillas in tha Mist without jungle fever

But I got the fever for the flavor of a cracker, not a Pringle

Bust the single, here's my new jingle:

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

The KKK has got three-piece suits

Usin' niggas like turkey shoots

My motto is, "Treat 'em like a prostitute!"

Now if I say no violence, devil, you won't respect mine

Fuck the dumb shit and get my TEC-9 (Yeah!)

And if they approach us

I, I - I bury those cockroaches

And if you can't deal with my Kill at Will

Here's a new gift to get, try my Death Certificate

AmeriKKKa's Most, America's burnt, it's like toast

Like Jordan, I'm goin' coast to coast

Dribblin' the funk, here comes the nigga with the motherfuckin' monster dunk

Get off me, punk!


[Segue]

"Jordan..."

"Watch Jordan!

Ayo, Cube, watch Jordan..."

"Yes!"

You better eat your Wheaties"

[Chorus: Ice Cube & Brother J]

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

Yeah, yeah

"But when will they shoot?"

"Stalkin', walkin' in my big black boots"

Yeah, yeah

"But when will they shoot?"


[Verse 4: Ice Cube]

Daryl Gates got the studio surrounded

'Cause he don't like the niggas that I'm down with

Motherfucker wanna do us

'Cause I like Nat, Huey, Malcolm, and Louis

Most got done by a black man's bullet

Give a trigger to a nigga and watch him pull it

Negro assassin

I'ma dig a ditch, bitch, and throw yo' ass in

When they shoot, no, it won't be a cracker

They use somebody much blacker

What I do? I called up the Geto Boy crew

'Cause my mind's playin' tricks on me, too (Yeah)

Never died, surround my crib

And FOI makin' sure nobody creep when I sleep

Keep a nine millimeter in my Jeep (What?)

Peep when I roll, I gots to roll deep

Ain't goin out cheap

Met the MAAD Circle on Cypress Hill 'cause it's so steep

They'll never get me, they'll never hit me

Motherfuck that shit, J-Dee

Now I'm relaxed

Grab the St. Ides brew so I can max

Sittin' by the window 'cause it's so fuckin' hot

And then I heard a shot (Boom!)