(feat. Freeway, Young Chris, Sparks & Oschino)

[Chorus: Sigel]

I know it's hard in every hood I know
Struggle in every ghetto I know
But not like the one I know

I see the law in every hood I go
They throw metal in every hood I know
But not like the one I know


[Oschino]
We all started innocent

Eating Reese's Pieces
I was young, then wearing 5 star Aleses
Bullet in ya gut a have a bag catch ya feces

20 months, vision quest, sleeping in a tepee
Since my dad died, attitude worsened
That's why I stole cars before I could write cursive

Thousand miles from being rich, stuck on my grind
Try to sale nickel bags like Louie Baton
I'm young, I'm good, best shape of my life

One shot from big %#@! a blow you out of ya Nikes
Only a dick head wouldn't wanna be rich
And do his car like school and drop out in the 6

You could look at my wrist, It wasn't %#@! on it
But I was determined to get a little gliss on em
The 40 ounce bottles done turned to Cris on em

And every (*##$ that was fronting, I'ma piss on em

[Beanie Sigel]

My hood dog
Like any average one
You know the dirty kids on the block having fun

Hand to hand is how the grams is slung
In tanned Timberlands and (?) until them vans a come
It's all good now

But you remember those latter days
Them tubleware, soul food platter days
That was ya mom little hustle on a Saturdays

Back then, when it really didn't matter days
You would take that beating
Cause you wasn't trying to be

the only one who missed the house party on the weekend
Knowing that them project chicks was in there freaking
Grinding off "As We Lay"

Walk with me yall
Back in the Day, you and ya man slap tapping away
Pitching chains, playing craps everyday

Getting high on the block
Green bottles of private stock
2 dollar 40's

Sparks tell ya story

[Chorus]


[Sparks]
I come up fragile and timid

Pressed to the limit
12 years old, no household
from the start I was finished

Disowned by the biologicals
And adopted by rolling stones on corners, sipping Thunderbird
Banging needles and pushing stolen Regals

And with no hoe and no money, layered my hunger pains daily with rice and gravy
Stuck between a rock and a hard spot as a juvenile
Just made me wanna holla "Lord help me"

But I had will power
Stole a burner from Uncle Lester
And that .22 long blossomed to wild flower

Now when I enter rooms the conversation stop
And them @@#! suckers whisper
These !@$)gots ain't got no cahunas

So if they so much as touch me
I @@#! back and put like bananas on them mokey mother$#&@ers
Show no love for these @@#! suckers

Weeping
Who can't deal with life situations cause that's money to me
Uhh
Murder


[Freeway]
Now who am I
Little ^!$$% named Free from the hood
What I do
Make a living, make a killing in the hood

What I'm trying to do now
Get my children out the hood
Before the ATF start coming
plot, plot on
Now who am I

Little ^!$$% named Free from the block
What I do
Make a living , make a killing on the block
What I'm trying to do now
Get my children off the block

And my real ^!$$%s, if they coming, clique come on
In my hood, F-R-double uh
@@#! back, double pump
You rapping, I just happen to have some space in the trunk
89' dough, space in the front
Will ya hoe fit?

Beef come, we be dumping the whole clip
Having lunch, while you be fronting, be $#&@ing ya hoe sick
Send her home, can't hump
Send my ^!$$%'s through ya block, can't pump
Grind, watch for the cops
%#@! tucked
I'll be watching them lady CO's if I slip up

Uh Uh

[chorus 2]
I know it's hard in every hood I know
Struggle in every ghetto I know
But not like the one I know
I see the law in every hood I go

They throw metal in every hood I know
But not like the one I know
I know it's !@%!e in every hood I know
It's no joke in every hood I know
But not like the one I know
I know it's rough in every hood I know
It's $#&@ed up in every hood I know

But not like the one I know

[Chris and Sigel talking]
Yo, I'm saying Mac, I know I'm young and all
(Yeah that's whats up?)
But I been through a little struggle too
(What you been through?)

Lot of crazy %#@! dog, ya know?
(%#@! Don't tell me, you got opportunity to tell the world)
Feel this dog
(Speak ya story, Yung Gun)

[Chris]
Yo I was brought up in the wildest streets

Where ^!$$%s pack everyday, and everybody crowd to eat
24/7, no time to sleep
A g and up, reing up, 3 times a week
Throwing numbers on the strip
The yungin out the clique
Moves like Carl Lewis when it's coming out the clip
Uh, Still in school, all the learning I can get
Focused, trying to purchase all the burners I can get
I know plenty ^!$$%s fell, trying to chauffer through this %#@!
These ^!$$%s tell, then a murder gon exist
It's no joke in the hood
Especially when the boat ain't make it across
and we ain't got no !@%!e in the hood
That's where rap come in at, more notes in a book
Dro in the woods, Mom dukes trying to lay low in the woods
[raps to fade]