Bootsy Collins

Released: November 19, 2002

Featuring: Snoop Dogg Daz Dillinger Colin Rich

Songwriter: Snoop Dogg Daz Dillinger Colin Rich Mousse T. Oliver Dommaschk Marco Quast

Producer: Royal Garden

[Dialogue]
"You were standin' just about here and you didn't see nothin'?"
"When the shootin' started I went for cover!"

[Intro: Snoop Dogg & Bootsy Collins]
Oh, yeah bubba, sanitary oceans and planetary motions
This is Snoopy Collins, and I'm going to give you a funkin' eargasm
Yeah (I'm the Love Gangsta, baby)
So put your guns away and just roll it up

[Verse 1: Colin Rich & (Bootsy Collins)]
Coming with an army
Gangsta Love, ready or not (Come on, baby)
We've got many weapons
And we plan to make you drop
(Ah, speak the word, it'll set you free, yeah)
I've got ammunition that will devastate mankind
I've got one desire
Love is gonna blow your mind

[Chorus: Bootsy Collins & Colin Rich]
I'm your Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm just your Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
'Cause I'm a Love Gangsta, baby
(Put your guns, put your guns away)

[Verse 2: Snoop Dogg]
Gangsta
L-O-V-E, that spells love
So I keep that thang put up in the glove
Especially when I walk in the club
They kiss and they hug
They push and they shove
Pattin' me down, beggin' for bud
I ain't no scrub, just sit in the club
Bumpin' his gums, hangin' with thugs
I'm hollerin' at girls
Catfish, let me scream at you for a minute
You see baby girl over there, I'm tryin' to go up in it (Yeah, bobba)
So let me slide up on it and hit it like I want it
I got to do it, doggone it
She say she never had a G like me befo'
Well, whaddayaknow?
The pimp is for real, it ain't for fake
From state to state
Doggy Dogg get the cake
Take her, break her, salt shake her
I'm gon' make her do what I want her do

[Chorus: Bootsy Collins & Colin Rich]
I'm just a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
Just a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
'Cause I'm a Love Gangsta, baby
(Put your guns, put your guns away)

[Verse 3: Daz Dillinger]
I'll put my thang up for the cause
I'll stick it right back in my drawers
The coldest one you ever saw that's down by law
All y'all back up but see what I got to offer
This for them AK and them four Glock poppers
It's Dilly and Snoop to break 'em off proper
It's a party, y'all, and we don't need no coppers
The way we do it, you know it, we do it doggystyle
I fill my mouth up with smoke and then I blow it out
Look up in the sky, ain't no bird or no plane
Get caught up with a pistol and here come the policeman
But if you get caught without it I doubt it
See, we some gangsta gangstas and we about to get rowdy
Because every little step I take I take the homies with me (Shh, and I ain't playin', yeah)
I leave you dead in the street 'cause you know there ain't no playin' a G (Hey, yes, so what you sayin'?)

[Chorus: Bootsy Collins & Colin Rich]
I'm a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm just a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm your Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm just a Love Gangsta, baby
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
Gangstas don't dance, we just boogie, baby
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
I'm just a Love Gangsta
(Put your guns, put your guns away)
'Cause I'm a Love Gangsta, baby
(Put your guns, put your guns away)

[Outro: Colin Rich]
We out, I'm hungry

Bootsy Collins (born William Earl Collins in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 26, 1951) is a singer-songwriter and guitar player known as one of the pillars of the funk sound in his work with James Brown and George Clinton. His nickname was given to him by his mother, who told him, “You looked like Bootsy.”

Along with his brother Phelps “Catfish” Collins, Bootsy joined James Brown’s backing band, The J.B.’s, in the early 1970s and played on a number of Brown’s hits, including “Super Bad”, “Soul Power”, and “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine” among others. After nearly a year, Collins left Brown’s band and connected with George Clinton and his Parliament Funkadelic P-Funk movement in 1972. During his run with the group, Bootsy also branched off to produce solo work with Bootsy’s Rubber Band.

Bootsy was also instrumental in the career of electro-funk legend Roger Troutman and his group Zapp in the early 1980s. Bootsy’s work also became a major sample source by a number of hip-hop stars, and his style was a big inspiration to Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Snoopy Collins. His signature vocals were featured in Grand Theft Auto V as the DJ for radio station Space 103.2, as well as featured on the 2018 hit “After the Storm” with Kali Uchis. As a member of Parliament Funkadelic, Bootsy Collins was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1997.

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