Da Hood-Da Youngsta's

[ti:Da Hood (LP Version)] [ar:Da Youngsta's] [al:Amongst Friends Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Da Hood - Da Youngsta's [00:24.53]Another day in the hood [00:25.65]I awake from the sound of a gunshot [00:27.77]Pop pop pop who needs a damn alarm clock [00:30.28]I got a homie out there clocking the white rocks [00:32.63]He carries a hype glock but he came to a slight stop [00:35.27]He found himself behind bars [00:36.92]Collected more scars got right out and broke more laws [00:40.16]Some people wonder is it just because he live in the inner city [00:42.86]He wanna be a hood like Frank Nitti [00:44.88]Cause when she's rolling the streets she don't care [00:46.94]He'll stick you up for your money [00:48.29]And make you strip to your underwear [00:49.93]I know it's kinda pathetic [00:51.52]But where I live at you get used to the sound of the paramedics [00:54.88]Because it's brothers like him all around here [00:57.12]Ain't nowhere to go so you gotta stay down here [00:59.74]Cause if it ain't another brother shot dead [01:01.87]It's a junkie od-in laying on his death bed [01:04.61]This is the type of thing that I see everyday [01:06.76]Everything is gloomy and grey but what can I say [01:09.59]I'm still surviving cause I'm taking the bad with the good [01:12.17]It's just another day in the hood [01:13.86]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [01:17.86]It's just another day in the hood [01:18.83]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [01:22.88]Another day in the hood a kid is caught in a crossfire [01:26.17]Gunfire lighten the streets like fireworks [01:29.01]Prostitutes sell their body for drugs and loot [01:31.40]Flagging down cars with businessmen in suits [01:34.05]They always come to the hard parts [01:35.72]Filled with the dealers swindlers hustlers and car sharks [01:38.89]Gun shell that grabbed lives litter the playground [01:41.22]So tell me where the little kids gonna play now [01:43.68]Going to school I gotta walk through the metal detector [01:46.45]Cause too many kids they pack tools [01:48.53]A lot of kids my age they want the fast money [01:51.10]Because their moms and pops never had money [01:53.52]Out of nowhere they wearin' the hype gear [01:55.81]Don't nobody care to tell the kids to hold it right there [01:58.37]Only your friends wonder where you got the money from [02:00.98]Two years ago you was nothing but a young buck [02:03.52]Now you're rollin' with a roughneck troop [02:05.23]Looking for kids to recruit to your roughneck group [02:08.07]They try to tell you that it ain't that hard [02:10.10]You can make mad money selling d**e by the school yard [02:13.13]But either way I take the bad with the good [02:15.00]Cause to me it's just another day in the hood [02:17.82]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [02:21.56]It's just another day in the hood [02:22.76]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [02:26.75]Another day in the hood a man is laying on the ground [02:29.76]But he ain't dead it's just a homeless man named Fred [02:32.60]Always asking for a quarter and asked me to marry his daughter [02:35.86]So he can get off the cruddy corner [02:37.66]I know this man is really mentally ill but still [02:40.02]Hard to kill so I hand him a dollar bill [02:42.52]Cause through the winter and the summer [02:44.18]A fifth of wine on the side keeps the man from goin' under [02:47.04]I know some chick named Helen always beggin' and yellin' [02:50.61]Begging for money but they gettin' nothing [02:52.20]Cause if you give her some cash flow fast [02:54.16]She's going straight across the street to the dopeman to get a blast [02:57.27]This type of thing I see through my young eyes [02:59.54]So I realize I gotta uprise [03:02.08]And stand my ground like a grown man [03:04.26]I seen more drama in the streets than an old man [03:06.97]And I admit it ain't easy [03:08.66]Lookin' out my window's like watchin' Baretta on TV [03:11.68]Cop car chases niggaz smackin' girls in their faces [03:14.66]And redneck cops that are racist [03:16.81]But either way I take the bad with the good [03:18.84]Cause to me it's just another day in the hood [03:21.29]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [03:24.84]It's just another day in the hood [03:26.10]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [03:29.97]It's just another day in the hood [03:30.99]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [03:34.59]It's just another day in the hood [03:36.02]Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [03:39.46]It's just another day in the hood