I'm from Compton, where the streets stay hot Grew up in the hood, where the guns go pop Hustling on the block, trying to make a knot Strapped with the glock, ready for any plot Raised in the struggle, where we had to fight Survival of the fittest, every day and night No time for weakness, gotta stay tight In the city of angels, where the wrong move could end your life Grew up with the homies, we were like family Riding through the city, feeling so damn free But the streets ain't kind, they'll take you out easily Gotta watch your back, in the land of the greedy Compton raised me, made me who I am Surviving through the struggle, with a pistol in my hand Hustling for a living, trying to make a grand In the city of dreams, where the devil's got a plan