This is a life in the hood, it doesn't go upwards just downhill
it is the life in the hood that makes survival hard for you
Honestly..
This is how the life is in the hood, it doesn't go upwards just downhill
the life in the hood is a whore and then you die as if that was it
Honestly?!
[Verse I:]
in the hood it doesn't go upwards just downhill
he wants to go up, but he doesn't know about gravity,
because he never learned anything but how to be cool,
Because being cool will definitely bring you through your time in the hood,
he's so cool, he's the boss in his building,
in the hood you don't get past him if you need drugs
he supplies all of them, and the business is booming,
he doesn't look at prices anymore, he just buys the best,
he has money, he's well of, he's made it far in the hood,
but he doesn't know that this makes the boys in the hood jealous
he feels safe, coke makes him think that this is his city
and he has that steel friend that scares everyone off
it takes just one night, five guys, three with guns
one against his head, he let them in unintentionally,
They take his stuff and shoot him after he's packed it up,
that's what happens when you make the hood your enemy
[Chorus]
[Verse II:]
She is only fourteen and no one likes her, that's what she says
She has no friends, doesn't go to any parties
She lives alone with mum, but mum drinks a lot
One could think she doesn't care how her child feels
the girl doesn't like being home, she hangs around the train station
she's there for hours every day, with that train station boy
They understand each other, he says he feels the same
For a completely normal life he'd be way too stupid
He is on heroin, she is in love with him
She steals money from her mum and gives it to him
At first she only watches as he takes it and dreams away
but soon she's on this shit as well
Mum kicks her out, the guy sends her on the streets,
She fucks perverted old men who scare her
and then she becomes pregnant, he kicks her in the stomach
the baby looks to die, they get it out with surgery
it survives but its mother didn't make it
Surviving here was hard, she couldn't do it
some it kills, some it makes stronger,
But all fight day and night... in the hood
[Chorus]
[Verse III:]
But it doesn't always go bad, I mean, look at me
I was really lucky that they didn't get to me
of course I fucked up, needed money, sold shit
I saw the big ones smoking, thought it was cool and joined in
but I had a dream and I kept hold of it
I wanted out of the hood, to shape my life myself
I know it's not easy, but look you can make it
You can do it, you just need the courage
I'm out of the hood now, but it stays in me
And that's why I don't feel good, something's foul here
the whole world is a hood, no one sees it
Slowly but surely it's going downhill
[Chorus]
You can take the boy out of the hood, but not the hood out of him
You can take the boy out of the hood, but not the hood out of him