In The Hood

(album: Iron Flag - 2001)

[Part 1]

["Writing Kung Fu" sample:]
The story your 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

[RZA:]
What the fuck y'all, niggas, thought, huh, what you thinking, 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 your shoe, bitch
Get the fuck back 'fore we break a f..., listen
Tryna to tell y'all, niggas, give you a fair warning
Just a chance to live so you can see your kids
Yo, son, nah, before I split your wig
I'd rather feed you this, but you ain't wanna eat it
So now you got to feel it!

[Part 2]

[Masta Killa:]
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 niggas better rock y'all hoodies
Take money, snatch jewelry in the hood
You find the best woman looking good
Diamond, she need polishing
In my hood all the gunshot legal
At the same time we gotta stop killing our people
Keep it in the hood, niggas 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 rood of the projects
Dice game in the park, blunt sessions after dark
Moving with the Wesson
Welcome to the God we build and drop a lesson
Pussy hole testing, in the hood
Got the word from the hoodrat, shorty on the wood

[Suga Bang Bang:]
Murder, bad boy, you block off
Murder, rude boy, you pop off
Murder, nine millimeter, me say
Murder, no time for talk, wanna
Murder, men and dem all talk 'bout the
Murder, Masta Killa come calm with nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Me say murder

[Inspectah Deck:]
Ay 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 waiting to shine
Walk with a nine and talk with gang signs, in the hood
Niggas 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 (Hood)
Weed clouds (Pow) thick enough to block the sun
Cops come, but thugs never drop the gun
Understood? Far from your 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

[Suga Bang Bang:]
Murder, bad boy, you block off
Murder, rude boy, you pop off
Murder, nine millimeter, me say
Murder, no time for talk, wanna
Murder, men and dem all talk 'bout the
Murder, Masta Killa come calm with nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Me say murder

[Streetlife:]
This is the place where thugs is born
In the hood blink too long, your life is gone
In the hood convicts still live with they moms
And they whole family tree is tattooed on they arm
In the hood crack fiends'll furnish a 'Llac
In the hood African's be driving 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 living
In the hood it ain't all good, repent or you sinning

[Suga Bang Bang:]
Murder, bad boy, you block off
Murder, rude boy, you pop off
Murder, nine millimeter, me say
Murder, no time for talk, wanna
Murder, men and dem all talk 'bout the
Murder, Masta Killa come calm with nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Me say murder
Murder, bad boy, you block off
Murder, rude boy, you pop off
Murder, nine millimeter, me say
Murder, no time for talk, wanna
Murder, men and dem all talk 'bout the
Murder, Masta Killa come calm with nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Nying, nying, nying, nying, nying
Me say murder