[Akon]   Cheh      [Styles P]   This shit is crazy   Crazy      [Akon]   It's one of those things man   You gotta experience to know what I'm talkin' about   Ha ha   It's where the goin' get rough      [Styles P]   Akon      [Akon]   The tough stay tough      [Styles P]   Styles P      [Akon]   Up front   Let's go   Konvict      [Akon]   We in too deep to turn back now D      [Styles P]   Sure is      [Akon]   Watch yourself   Before you get   Blown away      [Styles P]   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   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   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      [Akon]   Cause I was raised up to show no fear   Cowardly hearts'll never last long here   If you ain't man enough to make shit 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 a 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 nigga   Even a child could figure out how to 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 shit 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 ya off      Cause I was raised up to show no fear   Cowardly hearts'll never last long here   If you ain't man enough to make shit 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 a 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 ya laugh it'll make ya cry   This quiet nigga, 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'   Then nigga 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 shit 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 a couple more years   Tryin' not to get blown away