Uh, 'ey, yo, you know what a dawg need?
Do you really know what a dawg needs?
A dawg needs a bitch (what, what?)
A dawg needs a bitch (come on)
Not just any bitch, uh, but a real bitch, uh
That's gon' hold that dawg down (arf, arf)

Baby, I am what I am, I'm gon' be who I be (uh)
Everything from chasin' a cat to pissin' on a tree (uh-huh)
Let me see what I gotta see, do what I gotta to do
Dawg, fo' life, but I keep it true

Every once in a while, I'll break-out the backyard to roam (uh) and get reckless
But I still know that home is home (aight)
And when I get there, I'ma sit there, take a shit there, put my dick there
Do I handle my business (what)? Shit, yeah
I'ma run till I bust my gun and empty the clip
And if I come home and gotta go, just gimme the whip
I ain't got time for the lip
Just open the fence (uh-huh)
Let me go, I'll come back
I ain't got time to convince (uh)

Ever since I was a pup, I've been stuck with the street shit (uh)
Keep-the-heat shit (uh, uh, uh), fuck it
Nigga-gotta-eat shit
I pass on the weak shit
If it's out there, I want it
All at one time, so, when it's my time, I've done it (aight)

I know you'd kill for me, you'd die for me
I know you like to rip-and-run the streets
But I get nervous sometimes
Hey, baby, I can't help to think you might not make it home to eat
I barely sleep (come on)
Could you pick up a phone and call me at home
And let me know you ain't in some heat?
And don't come cryin', you're grown
You know I'm lookin'-out for you
'Cause you'd be lookin'-out for me (me-me)

Yo, you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh)
Said, you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece
'Fo' you go bendin' the law (come on)
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh, uh)
I know you up-in it all
Could you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (piece, piece)?

And, oh, boy, I know you gotta do what you do (uh, uh, uh)
You're making moves, I'm making moves, yo, we cool? (What? What? What?)
Stay on your paws, I got your back if you fall
Nothing's too big, nothing's too small, just go ball (uh, come on), baby

Dog tags around my neck (uh), the streets are mine
I might leave the heat behind
'Cause in the streets, I'm fine (what?)
That's why a nigga (what) sleep till nine, out by ten (uh)
Back by ten (uh), sleep till nine, do it again
If you love something, let it go (uh-huh)
If it comes back to you, it's yours
If it doesn't (uh), fuck it, you never know
You got me, I got you (uh), dawg wit' a dawg
Ride till we die (what?), if it's on, then it's on

Yo, you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh)
Said you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece
'Fo' you go bendin' the law (come on)
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh, uh)
I know you up-in it all
Could you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (piece-piece)?

Yo, you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh)
Said you can go with your dawgs
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece
'Fo' you go bendin' the law (come on)
If you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (uh, uh)
I know you up-in it all
Could you make this promise to me, that you make it back in one piece (piece-piece)?