In My Hood-Fabolous

[ti:In My Hood] [ar:Fabolous] [al:Real Talk] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.44]When you grow up in my hood [00:13.80]Help don't show up in my hood [00:16.48]Gang signs go up in my hood just cuz you in my hood [00:22.10]Feel like I'm trapped in my hood [00:24.54]Young kids get clapped in my hood [00:27.16]That's why I'm strapped in my hood just cuz you in my hood [00:30.22] [00:33.78]In my hood in my hood in my hood [00:40.45] [00:43.20]I'm always close to [00:44.07]Feeling like a corner stander stoop sitter or hallway post-er [00:48.18]No matter where I go it's always 'posed to feel just like I'm (in my hood) [00:54.18]Cops drive in it every 5 minutes look at your faces pat your waists' [00:58.69]Try to find the stash where the gats and base is I can't say that they racist [01:03.18]But I know it ain't the same in they town [01:06.68]And as f**ked up as it may sound (in my hood) [01:10.11]It's 2 ways to make it happen off the streets [01:12.49]Balling on the courts or rapping off the beats [01:14.92]You hear the shells tappin' off the 'crete when they clappin' off the heat [01:18.11]Then the yellow tape's trappin off the street [01:20.04]But that's the way we was raised [01:22.19]Preying to God hoping that he keep us out the way of them strays [01:25.38] [01:57.71]They drink 'til the cups dry eat 'til the plate's clean [02:00.46]Niggaz be in state greens 'fore they turn 18 [02:03.08]'Round here you never let the beef slide twice [02:05.32]Everybody raised on 4 wings and beef fried rice [02:07.94]Them mothers are getting younger today [02:09.69]Got one by the hand one in the stroller and one on the way [02:13.18]We don't have role models [02:14.81]But we got them handguns that hold hollows (in my hood) [02:19.30]Ain't no diplomas or degrees [02:20.93]But you can get high from the aroma of the trees (in my hood) [02:24.36]I know it like navigation and f**k having patience [02:27.10]I'ma get mine you better get yours cuz everyday is a struggle [02:31.22]And One-Time ride through everyday just to bug you [02:34.11]That's how it is cuz your rights be wrong [02:36.61]And everybody got a white T on when you're in my hood [02:39.82] [03:11.49]We try to make the most of what we got [03:13.37]You either been hit or been close to gettin shot (in my hood) [03:17.61] [03:18.30]Any ni**a that boast be getting got [03:20.04]And dopeheads fiend to get a dose of what we got [03:22.67]And young niggaz be like they slow [03:24.35]But you give them a blunt bet they roll the w**d like a pro [03:27.97]If you trick it's not a problem it gets you laid [03:30.41]But if you stick without a condom it gets you AIDS [03:33.16]No Sesame Street kids watch BET [03:35.94]Look up to niggaz that don't got a GED [03:38.43]I know a dude with the deadbeat tag [03:40.49]Kids don't got diapers but he ridin' in the red G-Wag' [03:43.37]In the hood you and your beef is sure to bump heads [03:46.80]And everybody grew up sleepin on bunk beds [03:49.55]They telling me to vote and I would [03:51.86]If it made a change in my hood mu'f**ka