100 miles and running by N.W.A. - Must be the most dumbest intro ive ever heard!?

Question

This is how it goes:

"Now why do we call ourselves *** gaz for life? cuz...if we die..we still gon' be some dead *** gaz!"

Life ends when you die...so what the heck. I don't know for sure but is he tryna say *** gaz forever? It doesn't even answer the question if u think about it. What do you all have to say about this. I had this song for many years now, and i finally went over it, and laughed at the stupidity. Comments please

Im not saying that the song is bad, the intro sucks, and i didnt say anything that would have you think i dislike the group. So why the answer? Are you afraid of opinion? Your answer didnt even really answer the question

Answer 1

I gotta admit that does sounds dumb as hell, but I had to read it over a couple of times to finally understand what they were sayin...

for one: they called theirselves *** gaz With Attitude, so they clearly see theirselves as "*** gaz"

second: they grew up in Compton, and as we all know it was a pretty damn dangerous place to live... especially in the 80's... and by livin the lifestyle that they were living, they were bound end up some "dead *** gaz"

third: when they finally die, they will be *** gaz that died... "dead *** gaz", but they already were in the first place... does that make sense?

its like how on movies, people threaten other people by saying "you're a dead man!"(they're going to die soon) and when that person finally dies they will be a man thats dead (a "dead man") I don't know how else to explain it cuz its really complicated

Answer 2

Yeah, you could tell DJ Yella didn't know what to say, he was just trying to sound hard. He was asked that in an interview on one of their N.W.A. video tapes back in the day, I have it, I don't know why they used that to begin that song with.

Answer 3

doesn't take anything away, from them being a really good group!

Answer 4

i KN0W HUH WHEN i HEARD iT i WAS LiKE WHAT BUT iTS STiLL K00Li0.