{The story you're about to see, occurred along the main   Trading route, on the border between the North and South   At a small outpost called Red Clay Village}      {What the fuck y'all niggaz thought, huh? What you thinkin' bitch?   Are you stupid son, must be stupid kid, What the fuck is wrong?   It's the Wu bitch, ain't got a clue bitch, tie ya shoe bitch   Get the fuck back, 'fore we break a fuck, listen   Tryin' to tell y'all niggaz, give you a fair warnin', just a chance to live   So you can see ya kids, yo son nah, before I split ya wig   I'd rather feed you this, but you ain't wanna eat it   So now you got to, feel it}      Yo what the, yo   Let me fuck it one more time then y'all can fuck   Y'know how we do it in the hood   Yo, yeah, turn the mic up, yeah, yo      Y'all niggaz better rock y'all hoodies   Take money, snatch jewelry, in the hood   You find the best woman lookin' good   Diamond she need polishin'   In my hood, all the gunshot legal   At the same time we gotta stop killin' our people   Keep it in the hood, niggaz walk with they gun   Keep it in the hood, that's where we come from      I rep Brooklyn, home of the gangsta   I know a few murderer, drug dealer   In the hood, we speak mathematics and build   What's the total weight of the brain, Allah real   Slang jacks and hold gats, in the hood, 80 proof   Get my dick sucked on the roof of the projects   Dice game in the park, blunt sessions after dark   Movin' with the Wesson      Welcome to the God, we build and drop a lesson   Pussyhole testin', in the hood   Got the word from the hoodrat   Shorty on the wood      Murder, bad boy ya block off an'   Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, nine millimeter me say   Murder, no time fi talk, one fi   Murder, men an' them ah talk 'bout di   Murder, Masta Killa come calm wit' nying   Nying, nying, nying, me say murder      Aey yo, we boys in the hood, big bad wolves in the woods   It ain't all good, pass the goods   Deep in the project halls waitin' to shine   Walk with a nine and talk with gang signs   In the hood, niggaz put twenties on Hoopties   Four heads, one forty ounce and a loosie   And keep dough on the flip, a hoe on the strip   And roll dick throw on the flip      Weed clouds thick enough to block the sun   Cops come, but thugs never drop the gun, understood?   Far from ya Hollywood   From day one, I vowed I would keep it in the hood   From project chicks with hips and slim waists   From five dollar plates apartment six-eighths   O.G., I spit G to the young ones   I keep it in the hood that's where I come from      Murder, bad boy ya block off an'   Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, nine millimeter me say   Murder, no time fi talk, one fi   Murder, men an' them ah talk 'bout di   Murder, Masta Killa come calm wit' nying   Nying, nying, nying, me say murder      This is the place where thugs is born, in the hood   Blink to long ya life is gone, in the hood   Convicts still live with they mom   And they whole family tree is tattooed on they arm, in the hood   Crack fiend'd furnish a 'Lac, in the hood   Africans be drivin' cabs, in the hood   In the streets the ghetto is hot   And the illest gangsters, on the block with cops, in the hood      The ones you love'll fill you with slugs, in the hood   Babies born addicted to drugs, in the hood   We make life or death decisions   And the school system is like a minimal prison   So you can't knock the hustle or the life that I'm livin'   In the hood, it ain't all good, repent or you sinnin'      Murder, bad boy ya block off an'   Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, nine millimeter me say   Murder, no time fi talk, one fi   Murder, men an' them ah talk 'bout di   Murder, Masta Killa come calm wit' nying   Nying, nying, nying, me say murder      Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, no time fi talk, one fi   Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, rude boy ya pop off an'   Murder, men an' them ah talk 'bout di   Murder, no time fi talk, one fi   Murder, men an' them ah talk 'bout di   Murder, Masta Killa come calm wit' nying   Nying, nying, nying