Verse One: Explicit
"See the 'hood is just another place.
As far as ^!$$%s concerned, you're just another face.

And when you die I guess you're sent to another place.
Whether a fearn or the urn - just another case.
Body statistics and murder forensics.

I'm trying to give it my all - future cemented.
And have a family, wife, and them Benzes.
Kids running 'round, Daddy shining on them 'lenzes.

My ^!$$%s burning haze, getting blazed by the fences.
watch for the cops; Task raiding the buildings.
Can't avoid the pressure - street's raising the children.

We all get accustomed - it's everyday living.
Cracks on the ave for that everyday pitching.
Can't get accustomed to the everyday stitching.

Paramedics, forget it, this is everyday living.
If you ain't gon' resort to it, you're still gon' feel it.
This is for all my ^!$$%s..."


Chorus: Explicit
"You can take a ^!$$% out the 'hood but can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.

Ride so the 'hood ride with us.
Die so the 'hood die with us.
Yeah, you can try but you can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.

You can take a ^!$$% out the 'hood but can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.
Ride so the 'hood ride with us.
Die so the 'hood die with us.

Yeah, you can try but you can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%."

Verse Two: Poetry aka "Problem Child"

"They can take me out the 'hood,
there's no way they can take me out for good.
It's where I kick back and parlay where the strip's at.

Crack jokes; sip yak. Come $#&@ with me!
Rules to live by if you want to breathe long.
There's a moral to a story in each song.

Listen close and take notes:
separate the real from the fake folks.
It's not where the $#&@ you're from it's where the $#&@'s your gat.

Rule 2 - the street don't love you back.
Well not like a wife would; gun or a knife should
protect when you're living life good.

Rule 3 - don't believe what you hear and see
because everything ain't what it appears to be.
Rule 4 - better dumb out, thinking

when you're back's to the wall: I'd come out swinging!
Rule 5 - break bread for your family, understand me?
Rule 6 - don't think ^!$$%s can't bleed.

Don't talk it if you don't live it
and don't walk it if you don't get it.
It's the concrete jungle where animals roam;

Call it 'home sweet home!'
Ayo Tone, they can, they can, they can take a ^!$$% out the 'hood
but can't take the 'hood out me!"


Chorus: Explicit
"You can take a ^!$$% out the 'hood but can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.

Ride so the 'hood ride with us.
Die so the 'hood die with us.
Yeah, you can try but you can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.

You can take a ^!$$% out the 'hood but can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%.
Ride so the 'hood ride with us.
Die so the 'hood die with us.

Yeah, you can try but you can't take the 'hood out a ^!$$%."