In My Hood Fabolous

[Chorus]
When you grow up in my hood
Help don't show up in my hood
Gang signs go up in my hood, just 'cause you in my hood
Feel like I'm trapped in my hood
Young kids get clapped in my hood
That's why I'm strapped in my hood, just 'cause you in my hood
In my hood, in my hood, in my hood

[Verse 1: Fabolous]
I'm always close to
Feeling like a corner stander
Stoop sitter or hallway post-er
No matter where I go it's always 'posed to
Feel just like it's (in my hood)
Cops drive in it every five minutes
Look at your faces, pat your waist-es
Try to find the stash where the gats and base is
I can't say that they racist
But I know it ain't the same in they town
And as fucked up as it may sound (in my hood)
It's two ways to make it happen off the streets
Balling on the courts or rapping off the beats
You hear the shells tappin' off the 'crete
When they clappin' off the heat
Then the yellow tape's trappin' off the street
But that's the way we was raised
Praying to God, hoping that he keep us out the way of them strays