"In My Hood" Lyrics

It's the same thing that we go through
I'm tryna show you
When you grow up in the hood
Wanna make it gotta be strong tryna hold on
When you grow up in the hood (when you grow up)
In the hood (when you grow up)X3
When you grow up in the hood
In the hood (when you grow up) X3

This the same place we try to move from but if you
real you'll never forget where you come from we had
to hustle from sun up to no sun and the only job was
to get the job done as far as momma go they kept us
breathing cause most of us aint never had fathers we
believed in and that church was there for one reason
we all begged to god and that's the best place to meet
him the fess aint never helped us and we aint never
need em they never see potential so we only see the
priests take me out the hood but the hood will never
leave em the only thing that changes was the seasons believe me

It's the same thing that we go through
I'm tryna show you
When you grow up in the hood
Want to make it gotta be strong tryna hold on
When you grow up in the hood (when you grow up)
In the hood (when you grow up) X3
When you grow up in the hood
In the hood (when you grow up) X3

Yeah I love my hood and ima ride for him taught me
how to live so big im ready to die for him my baby
boys like me so im tryna show him while he growin get
knock down you got to keep going I said its cool if
you break a few rules just beat the odds gotta win
cause they expect you to lose education is a tool but
they don't make you a fool now became millionares that
aint graduate school I seen it I dreamed I hope that
I would be it cause mommas told us one day we'd make
it if we believed it we use to steal bike just so we
can pop a wheelie brand new 20"s on the BM like that's
reign when they see me I got everything I wanted for
the hood straight to your TV I got more than 3 wishes
and I never met a genie paraplegic people they will
never feel me I call them niggas Stevie cause they can never see me

It's the same thing that we go through
I'm tryna show you
When you grow up in the hood
Want to make it gotta be strong tryna hold on
When you grow up in the hood (when you grow up)
In the hood (when you grow up) X3
When you grow up in the hood

We grew up to early worrying about survival the dealer
has the money so the dope boys were our idols living
in the projects there always something to do how do
we stay out of trouble when struggles is all we knew
we all had dream and story's to tell friends that pasted
away or family in the jails the skys the limit had
to learn and grow wings and I aint gotta say it listen to the hook sing
It's the same thing that we go through
I'm tryna show you
When you grow up in the hood
Want to make it gotta be strong tryna hold on
When you grow up in the hood (when you grow up)
In the hood (when you grow up) X3
When you grow up in the hood