| [00:00.533] | When you grow up in my hood |
| [00:13.534] | Help don't show up in my hood |
| [00:16.184] | Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [00:21.797] | Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
| [00:24.157] | Young kids get clapped in my hood |
| [00:26.822] | That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [00:32.704] | In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
| [00:40.365] | I'm always close to |
| [00:43.957] | Feeling like a corner stander, stoop sitter, or hallway post-er |
| [00:47.869] | No matter where I go it's always 'posed to, feel just like I'm (in my hood) |
| [00:52.629] | Cops drive in it every 5 minutes, look at your faces, pat your waists' |
| [00:58.661] | Try to find the stash where the gats and base is, I can't say that they racist |
| [01:03.309] | But I know.. it ain't the same in they town |
| [01:06.325] | And as ****ed up as it may sound (in my hood) |
| [01:09.764] | It's 2 ways to make it happen off the streets |
| [01:11.837] | Balling on the courts or rapping off the beats |
| [01:14.493] | You hear the shells tappin' off the 'crete, when they clappin' off the heat |
| [01:17.913] | Then the yellow tape's trappin off the street |
| [01:19.810] | But that's the way we was raised |
| [01:21.741] | Preying to God, hoping that he keep us out the way of them strays |
| [01:24.973] | When you grow up in my hood |
| [01:27.924] | Help don't show up in my hood |
| [01:30.661] | Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [01:36.405] | Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
| [01:38.709] | Young kids get clapped in my hood |
| [01:41.389] | That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [01:47.460] | In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
| [01:55.012] | They drink 'til the cups dry, eat 'til the plate's clean |
| [02:00.188] | Niggaz be in state greens 'fore they turn 18 |
| [02:02.580] | 'Round here you never let the beef slide twice |
| [02:05.156] | Everybody raised on 4 wings and beef fried rice |
| [02:07.728] | Them mothers are getting younger today |
| [02:09.604] | Got one by the hand, one in the stroller and one on the way |
| [02:12.996] | We don't have role models |
| [02:14.676] | But we got them handguns that hold hollows (in my hood) |
| [02:19.041] | Ain't no diplomas or degrees |
| [02:20.476] | But you can get high from the aroma of the trees (in my hood) |
| [02:24.284] | I know it like navigation, and **** having patience |
| [02:26.996] | I'ma get mine, you better get yours, cuz everyday is a struggle |
| [02:31.108] | And One-Time ride through everyday just to bug you |
| [02:33.788] | That's how it is, cuz your rights be wrong |
| [02:36.341] | And everybody got a white T on, when you're in..my..hood |
| [02:40.510] | When you grow up in my hood |
| [02:42.750] | Help don't show up in my hood |
| [02:45.291] | Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [02:50.958] | Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
| [02:53.307] | Young kids get clapped in my hood |
| [02:55.995] | That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [03:01.803] | In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
| [03:10.619] | We try to make the most of what we got |
| [03:13.086] | You either been hit, or been close to gettin shot (in my hood) |
| [03:17.707] | Any nigga that boast be getting got |
| [03:19.733] | And dopeheads fiend to get a dose of what we got |
| [03:22.280] | And young niggaz be like they slow |
| [03:24.299] | But you give them a blunt..bet they roll the weed like a pro |
| [03:27.579] | If you trick it's not a problem it gets you laid |
| [03:30.243] | But if you stick without a condom, it gets you AIDS |
| [03:32.939] | No Sesame Street, kids watch BET |
| [03:35.542] | Look up to niggaz that don't got a GED |
| [03:38.148] | I know a dude with the deadbeat tag |
| [03:40.291] | Kids don't got diapers but he ridin' in the red G-Wag' |
| [03:43.659] | In the hood, you and your beef is sure to bump heads |
| [03:46.555] | And everybody grew up sleepin on bunk beds |
| [03:49.211] | They telling me to vote..and I would |
| [03:51.803] | If it made a change in my hood..mu'****a |
| [03:54.875] | When you grow up in my hood |
| [03:57.283] | Help don't show up in my hood |
| [04:00.050] | Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [04:05.658] | Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
| [04:07.963] | Young kids get clapped in my hood |
| [04:10.642] | That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
| [04:16.730] | In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
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