Things just ain't the same for gangstas Times is changing, young niggas is aging Becoming OGs in the game and changing To make way for these new names and faces But the strangest things can happen from rapping When niggas get wrapped up in image and acting Niggas get capped up and wrapped in plastic Zipped up in bags: when it happens, that's it I've seen 'em come, I've watched 'em go Watched 'em rise, witnessed it and watched 'em blow Watched 'em all blossom and watched 'em grow Watched the lawsuits when they lost the dough Best friends and money: I lost them both Went visited niggas in the hospital It's all the same shit all across the globe I just sit back and watch the show (The watcher)

Everywhere that I go Ain't the same as befo' (The watcher) People I used to know Just don't know me no mo' (The watcher) But everywhere that I go I got people I know (The watcher) Who got people they know So I suggest you lay low (I watch)

I'm still on top of the game Still dropping flames, still cock and aim Still at the top had to rock for the fame Over setbacks, there's been a lot since I came You seen it all, how I got, how I gained The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim The streets, they made a special spot for my name Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins The pride and the pain All the way back from the rise of my name See the world clear through the eyes of the mane See the world cheer for the rhymes that I gave When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane The eyes that I played, the best to emerge in the game is the Watcher

Everywhere that I go Ain't the same as befo' (The watcher) People I used to know Just don't know me no mo' (The watcher) But everywhere that I go

And uh, I started out dumb, sprung off a hood-rats Listenin' to the radio, wishin' that I could rap But nothing changed, I was stuck in the game 'Cause everybody in the industry was fuckin' me, mayne Listen, I got a scheme, break away, do my own thang Drop some conversation, sit back and let the phone ring Niggas ain't wanna see me rise 97 watch me cut these motherfuckers down to size And if I catch another case, Lord knows how they hate me Got a player in the court room, please don't let 'em frame me I've been dealt a lot of bad cards livin' as a thug Count my blessings and throw my stressings in this land with no love Maybe they seen me rollin', look at all this green I'm holdin' I get this why they envious and get they eyes swollen Hopin' the heavenly father love a hustler Meet the hardest nigga on the Earth to ever bust a nut My homies tell me, "Have a heart" — fuck they feelings I've been tryin' to make a million since we started, we cold hearted Niggas in masks that'll blast at the task force Empty out my clip, time to mash, they asked for it Me, Makaveli, I'm a motherfucker We break bread, now we thug brothers, haha Niggas talk a lot of non-shit I choose to ignore it A war? They ain't ready for it haha

I know, you got your eyes on me, I feel you watching me But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me You try, but what you think you saw Ain't what you thought you saw You better off not looking at all (Everywhere that I go ain't the same as before People I used to know just don't know me no more But everywhere that I go, I got people I know Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low)

I'm still on top of the game Still dropping flames, still cock and aim Still at the top had to rock for the fame Over setbacks, there's been a lot since I came You seen it all, how I got, how I gained The momentum when it dropped, how I got through the pain When I roll and shock, they watched me reclaim The streets, they made a special spot for my name Dre, haters wanna stop to my reign But the music lives in me, every drop in my veins The pride and the pain All the way back from the rise of my name See the world clear through the eyes of the mane See the world cheer for the rhymes that I gave When the beat bangs it'll drive them insane The eyes that I played, the best to emerge in the game is the Watcher

I know, you got your eyes on me, I feel you watching me But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me You try, but what you think you saw Ain't what you thought you saw You better off not looking at all (Everywhere that I go ain't the same as before People I used to know just don't know me no more But everywhere that I go, I got people I know Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low)

This place is my house, I might as well erase my face wit white-out Cuz y'all can't see me like Mase's eyebrows (where you at?) Climped out of a nice house Through the front window and heard this guy shout "Hey that's my couch, bitch!" Pull a nine out during a rhyme bout While I'm rippin this shit, put a clip in it spit five rounds And murder you hoes worse than a convertible flippin vertical Nose first wit the top off landin upside-down You're tied down and duct-taped, fuck rape I'd rather just hump a slut's leg wit my nuts shaved And Sway & Tech, two disk jokeys Breakin so many friggin needles I wonder if they inject

I know, you got your eyes on me, I feel you watching me But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me You try, but what you think you saw Ain't what you thought you saw You better off not looking at all (Everywhere that I go ain't the same as before People I used to know just don't know me no more But everywhere that I go, I got people I know Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low)

Haha, watch me clown, give me lovin' when I'm high I'm a outlaw baby, I'll be thuggin' 'til I die In my drop-top, double-R, life as a rap star Hustle like a crack fiend 'til they catch me Go ask somebody to your show Watchin niggas out of sight, in my night scope Cookin' white dope, got my nigga 25-to-life stressed out Tryin' to have all the better things in life While Makaveli — a born leader, 10 millimeter Change a nigga's future like a schizophrenic palm reader Heed, from out the Bible I read See the meek shall inherit the Earth and the strong will lead Hittin' weed like it's alright I'm in the studio makin' music all night My enemies cry whenever I rise, they hated 'til the death Tryin' to beat me out my last breath Whatcha gonna do?

I know, you got your eyes on me, I feel you watching me But it ain't hard to see that you can't see me You try, but what you think you saw Ain't what you thought you saw You better off not looking at all (Everywhere that I go ain't the same as before People I used to know just don't know me no more But everywhere that I go, I got people I know Who got people they know, so I suggest you lay low)