Yeah   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Come on      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      I'm from the land of the gang bang   Since I was little, ain't a god damn thang changed   It's the same ole same   Bush run shit like Saddam Hussein      I cock and aim, clinically insane   To deal with this bullshit day to day   If I sell some yay or smoke some hay   You bitches wanna throw me up in Pelican's Bay      Call me an animal up in the system   But who's the animal that built this prison?   Who's the animal that invented lower living?   The projects, thank god for Russell Simmons      Thank god for Sugarhill   I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grille   Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids   How these ghetto niggaz taken over showbiz      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      It's Boyz in the Hood, it's toys in the hood   Y'all wanna know why it's noise in the hood?   'Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood   Nigga killed a crip and a blood in the hood, for real      'Cause when niggaz get tribal   It's all about survival, nobody liable   I got caught by a five-o   Grandmama came to court with her bible      But when the judge hit the gavel   Now I'm too far from my family to travel   I just came unraveled   Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled      Owned by C.A., state property   Just like the year fifteen fifty three   Looking for me, a one-way ticket out   Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      Damn, I can't take the pressure   Pulled the forty-four up out the dresser   Grabbed the weight up out the closet   Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it      Y'all know what happened last time I lost it   Can't tell you niggaz what the fuckin' boss did   The game got a nigga exhausted   Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered      Twenty years for what?   Breaking these laws that's so corrupt   Taking these halls and fillin' 'em up   Some powder keg shit that's about to erupt      Ay y'all, I'm about to be stuck   Until the year two thousand, what the fuck?   In the hood, don't press your luck   'Cause these motherfuckers will set you up, word up      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      They give us guns and drugs   Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs   They wanna count the slugs   Then come around here and fuck with us      Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Stop trippin' on it      Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same   Every hood's the same