[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