There’s an alternate version to this song featuring Sheist’s close friend and local LA artist, N.U.N.E. which consists of one verse from each artist and contains rougher subject matter. Sheist’s verse also sounds like it was ghostwritten by Xzibit due to unique vernacular popularized by Xzibit himse...
(Warren G)
Yeah man
Let me go on and blaze that
That's right, yeah
[Verse 1: Shade Sheist]
Yo, Ride with me
Walk a block with me
Pull a heist with me
Represent with me
Yo, ride with me
Walk a block with me
Pull a heist (pull a heist with me)
Represent, Yo
[Verse 2: Nate Dogg]
When I wake up in the morning
When I get up out of my bed
At all times I remain a hustler
At all times I be chasing my bread
Since this one's for my people
I'ma make sure you heard what I said
Daddy say speak loud and clearly
Daddy say aim for the head
I think we all too cool to lose it
I say we all stay leveled instead
I say still we tame the hookers
I know we still eluding them feds
We made this one for the Negroes and for the Caucasians who care
They say they treat us like we equal
I say they treat us like we just don't care
[Hook]
When I wake up in the morning
When I get up out my bed
I will always be a hustler
I will always chase my bread
Since this one's for my people
I'ma make sure you hear what I said
I'm gon' speak so loud and clearly
I'm gon' aim straight for yo head
[Verse 3: Shade Sheist]
Yo, I wake up late but still got currency dreams
Snooze button, yo I'm trying to sleep
I got bills and the ends ain't been trying to meet
So I'm pressed for cash and I'm out of my league
You see, times ain't the greatest and I ain't Ali
So my hours are 9 to 5 and my job is the streets
I'm in a low position trying to hold these missions
Crenshaw to Exposition filling holiday wishes
And the block (West Adams) and the spot (we sure had em)
Rally's on Manchester, Inglewood on Saturdays turn to night
Shade always been the type to show love to those whom always doin' right and that's gangster
[Hook]
When I wake up in the morning
When I get up out my bed
I will always be a hustler
I will always chase my bread
Since this one's for my people
I'ma make sure you hear what I said
I'm gon' speak so loud and clearly
I'm gon' aim straight for yo head
[Verse 4: Shade Sheist]
Yo, it don't matter where you from
Not knowing of where you been
Can't go to sleep a child and expect to wake a man
Yo life is a lesson, niggas who don't study
End up failing tests and blame it on me
But see Sheist only is what he claiming to be
A real quiet motherfucker with his heart in these streets
Heart in these beats, flows sell a lot in a week
So even Billboard couldn't chart my highest of peaks
I'm with the Ree so you knowin' what they saying of me
I'm impressed how many people end up hating on me
Like a disease Shade hit em' with a new vaccine
I leave em' comatose falling asleep
[Hook]
When I wake up in the morning
When I get up out my bed
I will always be a hustler
I will always chase my bread
Since this one's for my people
I'ma make sure you hear what I said
I'm gon' speak so loud and clearly
I'm gon' aim straight for yo head
(Warren G)
That's real talk, real thangs, real people, wake up
Haha yeah yeah
Wake Up was written by Warren G & Nate Dogg & Shade Sheist.
Wake Up was produced by Kay Gee & Eddie Berkeley.