Doing Dumb Shit - Ice Cube

When I was young I used to hang with the seventh graders

Little bad motherfucker playing Space Invaders

Fucking with the girls in the fourth grade

Either feeling on they butts or pulling on they braids

Walking with the schoolhouse bully

By doing that, I had a lot of pull, G

Cheating on tests, making a mess

Cussing like a sailor at recess

It must a been a half moon

Cause you’ll catch me running out the little girls' bathroom

Chewing on Good and Plenties

Got my gamble on at lunch pitching pennies

Yo I was living like the class clown

Pulling all the hokes, making all the jokes man

When you young it’s hard to see

That it’s wrong throwing rocks at the RTD

Popping out your window with a BB gun

Better yet knocking on your door and run

Playing hide-and-go-get-it for a little stank

Even though I was still shooting blanks

As soon as the dark hit

I was stealing candy out the corner market

Until I got my ass whipped

Cause I was ten years old, doing dumb shit

Thirteen, that’s how old I was

When my jimmy started getting a little peach fuzz

And I was looking at any butt and ass

Me and my homies started cutting class

Going up to the high school

Looking for any bitch I could lie to

Tell em I was older than I really was

Smoked my first joint and got really buzzed

That’s what a mack’s made of

But when I got my first piece of pussy I fell in love

Hard as a rock the long way

And then I put the rubber on the wrong way

But I still gotta have it

Overexcited and fucking like a jackrabbit

Goddamn I was hype

A virgin but I still knew how to lay the pipe

Even though the ho worked me

I still knocked the boots from here to Albuquerque

Then the shit got strange, money

I started shaking and jimmy felt funny

Then the nut came gushing

I jumped up got dressed and start pushing

Cause I thought the bitch broke my dick

Cause I was still young doing dumb shit

At 17 got my first Volkswagen

And mastered the life-long art of dragging

To the women in college

Hung out with the OG’s and got some street knowledge

Breaking in cars and all that

Hitting punk fools with a baseball bat

Fucking at a real fast rate

Til they said that I might not graduate

Then I said, «Fuck the dumb shit

Cause Pops’ll fuck me up quick

If things continue.»

So I start rapping about shit I been through

And I got real good

Now I look at all the kids in the neighborhood

Trying to be baby macks

Doing shit that I did seven years back

Going through a stage

But before they can grow up they on the front page

And they moms is having a fit

Cause they died young, doing dumb shit