[Intro]
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Yeah
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Every hood's the same [2X]
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Come on
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[Chorus]
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They give us guns and drugs
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Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
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They wanna count the slugs
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Then come around here and fuck with us (Uh huh)
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They give us guns and drugs
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Then wonder why in the fuck we thugs
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They wanna count the slugs
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Then come around here and fuck with us
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[Verse 1]
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I'm from the land of the gang bang
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Since I was little, ain't a god damn thang changed
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It's the same ol same
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Bush run shit like Sadaam Hussien
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I cock and aim, clinically insane
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To deal with this bullshit day to day
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If I sell some yay or smoke some hay
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You bitches wanna throw me up in pelican's bay
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Call me an animal up in the system
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But who's the animal that built this prison
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Who's the animal that invented lower living
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The projects, thank god for Russell Simmons
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Thank god for Sugarhill
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I'm putting a different kind of steel up to my grill
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Y'all know what it is, scared for your own kids
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How these ghetto niggaz taken over showbiz
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 2]
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It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood
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Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood
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Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood
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Nigga killed a crip and a blood in the hood (For real)
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Cause when niggaz get tribal
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It's all about survival, nobody liable
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I got caught by five-oh
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Grandmama came to court with her Bible
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But when the judge hit the gavel
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Now I'm too far from my family to travel (Fuck)
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I just came unraveled
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Socked the D.A. before I got gaffled
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Owned by C.A, State Property
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Just like the year fifteen fifty three
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Looking for me, a one-way ticket out
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Don't understand, what's so hard to figure out?
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
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(Damn) I can't take the pressure
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Pulled the fo-fo up out the dresser
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Grabbed the weight up out the closet
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Po-po coming but I'm scared to toss it
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Y'all know what happened last time I lost it
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Can't tell you niggaz what the fucking boss did
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The game got a nigga exhausted
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Gotta go for the plea bargain they offered
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Twenty years for what?
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Breaking these laws that's so corrupt
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Taking these halls and filling 'em up
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Some powder keg shit that's about to erupt
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Ay y'all, I'm about to be stuck
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Until the year two thousand, what the fuck?
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In the hood, don't press your luck
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Cause these motherfuckers will set you up, word up
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[Chorus]
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[Outro]
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Every hood's the same [3X]
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Every hood's the same [2X]
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Stop tripping on it
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Every hood's the same [3X]
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Every hood's the same [2X]
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Why We Thugs
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Ice Cube |