Cheh, crazy, it's one of those things man   You gotta experience to know what I'm talkin' about   It's where the goin' get rough, Akon   The tough stay tough, Styles P, up front, let's go, konvict      We in too deep to turn back now D, sure is   Watch yourself before you get blown away      You know where I come from   The place where your fate is a mic or a bull or a dum dum   A jail cell a pine box and brothers is dumb young, young boys   Still bustin' guns for the slum that they come from      Cops is the only ones they gon' run from, that's it   They puttin' they hood up but 9 out of 10 of us ain't got good luck   You gon' ride on a man and catch 25   (Blown away)   Or get hit and get sent to the other side      You lose both sides of the coin   So me I play the hood baby not in the groin   Mama got a little church I could join but I didn't go yet   Man got a mosque I could join but I didn't go yet      Cool with the devil on my back, I'm in cold sweats   'Bout to do some dirt in some dirty black old sweats   If you known you shoulda shown the way   Mosta the hood 'bout to get blown away      'Cause I was raised up to show no fear   Cowardly hearts'll never last long here   If you ain't man enough to make s*** clear   Guaranteed you'll get blown away      'Cause I done seen the block break down tears   And I done seen the cops break my peers   Tryin' to hold on to couple more years   Tryin' not to get blown away      See I ain't never shot nobody but I'm known for fightin'   So when I strike man you'll think you been struck by lightning   Shouldn't have to prove myself by killin' a ***   Even a child can take it like by pull the trigga      Retaliation only takes anger mixed with passion   So you target in the distance and keep on blastin'   They say guns don't kill people, people do   So when you're hit man you feel that s*** the evils do      Can't see myself get beat down my eyes swollen   Mom's cryin' they don't know what happened, my pride's stolen   If I ain't got my heat then I got a blade   That hit you off me, so      I was raised up to show no fear   Cowardly hearts'll never last long here   If you ain't man enough to make s*** clear   Guaranteed you'll get blown away      'Cause I done seen the block break down tears   And I done seen the cops break my peers   Tryin' to hold on to couple more years   Tryin' not to get blown away      Keep my eye out for jakes, ears to the streets   Other eye out for snakes and these scandalous freaks   If we ain't on good terms don't bother to speak   Don't smile and try to spark a convo with me      Same thing'll make you laugh it'll make you cry   This quiet ***, he'll take ya life   Hate for it to be the world's sacrifice   If somebody else could travel through the tunnel of life      'Cause I'm that type of guy I'll be there when you're ridin'   But I'll stay to myself   So if you see me out there with a bear we fightin'   N**** then go help the bear      'Cause I was raised up to show no fear   Cowardly hearts'll never last long here   If you ain't man enough to make s*** clear   Guaranteed you'll get blown away      'Cause I done seen the block break down tears   And I done seen the cops break my peers   Tryin' to hold on to couple more years   Tryin' not to get blown away