In My Hood

Young kids get clapped in my hood
That's why I'm strapped in my hood
Young kids get clapped in my hood
That's how it is 'cause your rights be wrong

Help don't show up in my hood
Any nigga who pulls be gettin' got
Help don't show up in my hood
But that's the way we were raised prayin' to God
I'm gonna get mine you better get yours
Ballin' on the courts or rappin' off the beats
And dope heads fiend to get a dose of what we got
We try to make the most of what we got
Feels just like it's in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood

Niggas be in state greens before they turn eighteen
'Cause every day is a struggle
And one time ride through everyday just to bug you
Bet they roll the weed like a pro
They're tellin' me to vote and I would
Round here you never let the beat slide twice
Cops drive in it every five minutes
Gang signs go up in my hood
The young niggas be like they slow but you give 'em a blunt
But you can get high from the aroma of the trees, in my hood
No matter where I go it's always post up
But if you stick without a condom it'll get you aids
Stander stoop to sit on hallway post up

Gang signs go up in my hood
In my hood, in my hood, in my hood
You either been hit of been close to gettin' shot in my hood
In my hood, in my hood, in my hood
You hear the shells tappin' off the creek

When you grow up in my hood
And everybody grew up sleeping on a bunk bed
Ain't no diplomas or degrees
Feel like I'm trapped in my hood
We don't have role models
Just 'cause you in my hood
When they clappin' off the heat
Kids don't got diapers but he ridin' in the red G wag

Then the yellow tapes trappin' off the street
Young kids get clapped in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood
I can't say that they racist
That's why I'm strapped in my hood
Gang signs go up in my hood
Feel like I'm trapped in my hood
The mothers are gettin' younger today
I know a dude with the deadbeat tag
When you grow up in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood
If you a chick it's not a problem to get you laid

Young kids get clapped in my hood
Try to find a stash where the gats and base is
No sesame street kids, watch B E T
In the hood you and your hoods is sure to bump heads
Help don't show up in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood
They drink till the cups dry, eat till the place clean
But we got those hand guns that hold hollows, in my hood
When you grow up in my hood
Hopin' that he keep us out the way of them strays
Look at your faces pat your waists
Just 'cause you in my hood
Look up to niggas that ain't got a G E D
That's why I'm strapped in my hood
I'm always close to feelin' like a corner
Feel like I'm trapped in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood
I know it like navigation and fuck havin' patience
That's why I'm strapped in my hood
Everybody raise them four wings and beef fried rice

If it make a change in my hood, motherfucker
In my hood, in my hood, in my hood
And as fucked up as it may sound in my hood
Gang signs go up in my hood
Just 'cause you in my hood

Feel like I'm trapped in my hood
There's two ways to make it happen off the streets
But I know it ain't the same in they town
Got one by the hand, one in the stroller and one on the way
And everybody got a white T on when you in my hood