| When you grow up in my hood, help dont show up in my hood, gang signs go up in
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| my hood, just cos you in my hood. |
| Feel like im trapped in my hood,
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| young kids get clapped in my hood, thats why im strapped in my hood,
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| just cos you in my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| Verse 1 (Fabolous)
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| Im always close to, feeling like a corner stander stoop to sit on,
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| hallway post up. |
| No matter where i go its always post up, feels just like it
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| IN MY HOOD, cops drive in it every 5 minutes. |
| Look at your faces pat your
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| waistes, try to find a stash where the gats and base is, i cant say that they
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| racist. |
| But i know it aint the same in they town and as fucked up as it may
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| sound IN MY HOOD, theres two ways to make it happen off the streets,
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| balling on the courts or rapping off the beats. |
| You hear the shells tapping
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| off the creek and they clapping off the heat then the yellow tapes trapping off
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| the street. |
| But thats the way we were raised praying to god hoping that he keep
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| us out the way of them strays.
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| Chorus (Fabolous)
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| When you grow up in my hood, help dont show up in my hood, gang signs go up in
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| my hood, just cos you in my hood. |
| Feel like im trapped in my hood,
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| young kids get clapped in my hood, thats why im strapped in my hood,
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| just cos you in my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| Verse 2 (Fabolous)
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| They drink till the cups dry, eat till the plates clean, niggas be in state
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| greens before they turn 18, round here you never let the beat slide twice,
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| everybody raise them four wings and beef fried rice. |
| The mothers are getting
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| younger today, got one in the hand, one in the stroller and one on the way.
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| We dont have role models but we got those hand guns that hold hollows IN MY
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| HOOD. |
| Aint no diploams or degrees, but you can get high from the aroma of the
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| trees IN MY HOOD. |
| I know it like navigation and fuck having patience,
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| im gonna get mine you better get yours, cos every day is a struggle and one
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| time ride through everyday just to bug you. |
| Thats how it is cos your rights be
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| wrong and everybody got a white T on when you in my hood.
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| Chorus (Fabolous)
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| When you grow up in my hood, help dont show up in my hood, gang signs go up in
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| my hood, just cos you in my hood. |
| Feel like im trapped in my hood,
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| young kids get clapped in my hood, thats why im strapped in my hood,
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| just cos you in my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| Verse 3 (Fabolous)
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| We try to make the most of what we got, you either been hit of been close to
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| getting shot IN MY HOOD, any nigga who pulls be getting got and dope heads
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| fiend to get a dose of what we got. |
| Young niggas be like they slow but you give
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| them a blunt, bet they roll the weed like a pro, if you a chick it nots a
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| problem to get you laid, but if you stick without a condom itll get you aids.
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| No sesame street kids, watch BET, look up to niggas that aint got a G.E.
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| D, i know a dude with the deadbeat tag, kids dont got diapers but hes riding in
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| the red g wag. |
| In the hood you and your hoods is sure to bump heads and
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| everybody grew up sleeping on a bunk bed there telling me to vote…
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| and i would if it make a change in my hood. |
| Motherfucker.
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| Chorus (Fabolous)x 2
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| When you grow up in my hood, help dont show up in my hood, gang signs go up in
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| my hood, just cos you in my hood. |
| Feel like im trapped in my hood,
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| young kids get clapped in my hood, thats why im strapped in my hood,
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| just cos you in my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood
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| In my hood |