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When you grow up in my hood |
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Help don't show up in my hood |
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Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
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Young kids get clapped in my hood |
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That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
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I'm always close to |
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Feeling like a corner stander, stoop sitter, or hallway post-er |
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No matter where I go it's always 'posed to, feel just like I'm (in my hood) |
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Cops drive in it every 5 minutes, look at your faces, pat your waists' |
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Try to find the stash where the gats and base is, I can't say that they racist |
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But I know.. it ain't the same in they town |
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And as ****ed up as it may sound (in my hood) |
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It's 2 ways to make it happen off the streets |
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Balling on the courts or rapping off the beats |
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You hear the shells tappin' off the 'crete, when they clappin' off the heat |
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Then the yellow tape's trappin off the street |
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But that's the way we was raised |
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Preying to God, hoping that he keep us out the way of them strays |
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When you grow up in my hood |
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Help don't show up in my hood |
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Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
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Young kids get clapped in my hood |
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That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
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They drink 'til the cups dry, eat 'til the plate's clean |
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Niggaz be in state greens 'fore they turn 18 |
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'Round here you never let the beef slide twice |
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Everybody raised on 4 wings and beef fried rice |
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Them mothers are getting younger today |
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Got one by the hand, one in the stroller and one on the way |
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We don't have role models |
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But we got them handguns that hold hollows (in my hood) |
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Ain't no diplomas or degrees |
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But you can get high from the aroma of the trees (in my hood) |
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I know it like navigation, and **** having patience |
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I'ma get mine, you better get yours, cuz everyday is a struggle |
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And One-Time ride through everyday just to bug you |
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That's how it is, cuz your rights be wrong |
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And everybody got a white T on, when you're in..my..hood |
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When you grow up in my hood |
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Help don't show up in my hood |
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Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
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Young kids get clapped in my hood |
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That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |
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We try to make the most of what we got |
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You either been hit, or been close to gettin shot (in my hood) |
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Any nigga that boast be getting got |
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And dopeheads fiend to get a dose of what we got |
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And young niggaz be like they slow |
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But you give them a blunt..bet they roll the weed like a pro |
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If you trick it's not a problem it gets you laid |
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But if you stick without a condom, it gets you AIDS |
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No Sesame Street, kids watch BET |
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Look up to niggaz that don't got a GED |
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I know a dude with the deadbeat tag |
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Kids don't got diapers but he ridin' in the red G-Wag' |
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In the hood, you and your beef is sure to bump heads |
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And everybody grew up sleepin on bunk beds |
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They telling me to vote..and I would |
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If it made a change in my hood..mu'****a |
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When you grow up in my hood |
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Help don't show up in my hood |
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Gang signs go up in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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Feel like I'm trapped in my hood |
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Young kids get clapped in my hood |
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That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just cuz you in..my..hood |
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In..my..hood, in my hood, in my hood |