In My Hood (Amended Album Version)

Song In My Hood (Amended Album Version)
Artist Fabolous
Album Real Talk

Lyrics

[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