Cheh       This shit is crazy    Crazy       It's one of those things man    You gotta experience to know what I'm talkin' about    Ha ha    It's where the goin' get rough       Akon       The tough stay tough       Styles P       Up front    Let's go    Konvict       We in too deep to turn back now D       Sure is       Watch yourself    Before you get    Blown away       You know where I come from    The place where your fate is a mic    Or a bull or a dum dum    A jail cell a pine box    And brothers is dumb young    Young boys    Still bustin' guns for the slum    that they come from    Cops is the only ones they gon' run from    That's it    They puttin' they hood up    But 9 out of 10 of us ain't got good luck    You gon' ride on a man and catch 25    Or get hit and get sent to the other side    You lose both sides of the coin    So me I play the hood baby    Not in the    Mama got a little church I could join    But I didn't go yet    Man got a mosque I could join    But I didn't go yet    Cool with the devil on my back    I'm in cold sweats    Bout to do some dirt    In some dirty black old sweats    If you known you shoulda shown the way    Mosta the hood bout to get blown away       Cause I was raised up to show no fear    Cowardly hearts'll never last long here    If you ain't man enough to make shit clear    Guaranteed you'll get blown away    Cause I done seen the block break down tears    And I done seen the cops break my peers    Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years    Tryin' not to get blown away       See I ain't never shot nobody    But I'm known for fightin'    So when I strike man    You'll think you been struck by lightning    Shouldn't have to prove myself by killin' a nigga    Even a child could figure out how to pull the trigga    Retaliation only takes anger mixed with passion    So you target in the distance and keep on blastin'    They say guns don't kill people, people do    So when you're hit man    You feel that shit the evils do    Can't see myself get beat down    My eyes swollen    Mom's cryin' they don't know what happened    My pride's stolen    If I ain't got my heat then I got a blade    That hit ya off       Cause I was raised up to show no fear    Cowardly hearts'll never last long here    If you ain't man enough to make shit clear    Guaranteed you'll get blown away    Cause I done seen the block break down tears    And I done seen the cops break my peers    Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years    Tryin' not to get blown away       Keep my eye out for jakes    Ears to the streets    Other eye out for snakes    And these scandalous freaks    If we ain't on good terms    Don't bother to speak    Don't smile and try to spark a convo with me    Same thing'll make ya laugh it'll make ya cry    This quiet nigga, he'll take ya life    Hate for it to be the world's sacrifice    If somebody else could travel    Through the tunnel of life    Cause I'm that type of guy I'll be there    When you're ridin'    But I'll stay to myself    So if you see me out there    with a bear we fightin'    Then nigga go help the bear       Cause I was raised up to show no fear    Cowardly hearts'll never last long here    If you ain't man enough to make shit clear    Guaranteed you'll get blown away    Cause I done seen the block break down tears    And I done seen the cops break my peers    Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years    Tryin' not to get blown away