[Verse]
They say its all circumstance
No one's born a criminal
All the visual haunts your spiritual
Its more?subliminal?thoughts unthinkable
That of?course its all because I'm miserable
But?whatever the ****ing cause
I keep talk to a minimal
Cos that's?how?I?feel
I never gave?a **** about?people
Nothing is peaceful
Up in the streets
The struggle to hustle will eat you
Stuck in this evil
And searching for redemption
Under a steeple
But I'm in hell
That's why my people
Die off of needles
And suicide
Cos inside is a murderous demon
Its screaming
Its bleeding the soul
And its controlling the breathing
Until he's weakened
Just become another junkie with a gun
That's the real meaning of being comfortably numb
It's waking up sick and fevered
Every day of the week
That hood life
You never leave after a taste of the beast
Hep-C, HIV
And different strains of disease
Chasing his dreams
And waiting patient
For a place in the streets
And the only thing you know
Is ripping cars and lappy's
Bars and snatching ATM'S
Pumping AR'S and caddy's
Popping tills
Search a safe
Will play a part of Stracky's
Tell the lad to swing the car around
And park the back in
Its hard to argue
With the fact
This hood life is seductive
But the ignorance behind it
Is what's truly destructive
I spent more than 10 years inside
Locked up like a ****wit
Because I was stuck
Now I come up
I'm the wrong brother to **** with
[Hook]
That hood life
Ain't no ends
To what you do for respect
That hood life
I guarantee you will be put to the test
That hood life
Don't forget what you take from these streets
That hood life
You run your mouth
You better say what you mean
What you know about that hood life
That hood life
What you know about that hood life
What you know about that hood life
That hood life
What you know about that hood life
[Verse]
Started again
Came that part of the brain
Harder to take
So rather than waiting
I was starting to make the part of a name
Far from the fake
I was laughing in cages
Sharpening blades
Its hard to say
But I think the older boys
Are part of the blame
Can you differentiate a hustle
From a helpless need
And how a lack of empathy
Can turn into a selfish greed
Take it from me
90 percent of these lads
That say their street
Will end up hating
What grows inside them
Like a rapists seed
That's why I write this
A fighter
My rhymes are timeless
So I survive these final times
Full of signs and tyrants
And satisfaction we all get
At the price of violence
Hiding these knives down our sides
Its the rise of the mindless
Where two of the lads
Living their lives
In the same position
Desperate and infectious
With no inhibitions
But inside
They're sick of their hands and mouths existence
With some ***** raising their kids
In third world conditions
And right then
That's when some ****ing dog
Ends up snitching
Say you're facing doing years
In some ****ed up prison
With thoughts of just checking out
From your ****ed up living
Plus the rumours true
Your ***** is sucking **** for a living
And that's real life
For too many brothers I've dealt with
That's why I speak for the people
Who struggled and felt this
It's when that beautiful numbness
Is truly needed to function
That's why I say
Understanding is always better than judgement
[Hook]
That hood life
Ain't no ends
To what you do for respect
That hood life
I guarantee you will be put to the test
That hood life
Don't forget what you take from these streets
That hood life
You run your mouth
You better say what you mean
What you know about that hood life
That hood life
What you know about that hood life
What you know about that hood life
That hood life
What you know about that hood life