[00:04:26] You know, growin' up in the hood [00:04:26] You go through all kind of thangs, ya heard? [00:04:26] Some of it's good, some of it's bad [00:04:26] But the thangs you go through in life, make you who you are [00:04:26] Look at me now [00:04:26] And from the day I was born I've been hustlin' strong [00:04:26] I've been strugglin' since a child, now them days is gone [00:04:26] And niggaz said I wouldn't do it now I'm provin' 'em wrong [00:04:26] And now they got their hands out like I owe them some [00:04:26] I ain't got time for the bickerin' and carryin' on [00:04:26] It ain't too much in the hood I don't know [00:04:26] How many times do I have to say that I'm grown [00:04:26] That I'ma Young Buck and still enough to know when you niggaz is hoes [00:04:26] I still remember them nights under the street light [00:04:26] Fiends don't give a damn, they want who got the cheap price [00:04:26] I'm tryin' to keep right, get it in dough [00:04:26] You see people is dyin' fast and the money is slow [00:04:26] We used to hang in front of the sto', flag down cars [00:04:26] To be a movie star, go get a glass jar [00:04:26] Once you cook it and cut it homey go stand out in public [00:04:26] See the work sell itself if you got enough of it [00:04:26] Plenty thugs been shot but see it's all in the game [00:04:26] Even I took a couple of 'em, but still I remain [00:04:26] I ain't different from that same lil' project figure [00:04:26] I done went with no lights and no water nigga [00:04:26] And I'm still hood, that mean I still could [00:04:26] Get on the block, and get mine like you should [00:04:26] How can I be good, when rappers wanna be Suge? [00:04:26] Surroundin' myself with family, so I can sleep good [00:04:26] And from the day I was born I've been hustlin' strong [00:04:26] I've been strugglin' since a child, now them days is gone [00:04:26] And niggaz said I wouldn't do it now I'm provin' 'em wrong [00:04:26] And now they got their hands out like I owe them some [00:04:26] I ain't got time for the bickerin' and carryin' on [00:04:26] It ain't too much in the hood I don't know [00:04:26] How many times do I have to say that I'm grown [00:04:26] That I'ma Young Buck and still enough to know when you niggaz is hoes [00:04:26] I would light me a cancer stick, thinkin' how can I get [00:04:26] My momma out the bricks and my whole clique legit [00:04:26] Lil' Jimmy and the feds, it's just me and some Teds [00:04:26] We cuttin' heads, doin' whatever to buy a loaf of bread [00:04:26] The high speed chases, I really loved it [00:04:26] To blow 50 G's and don't thank nothin' of it [00:04:26] We showed love but wasn't no love showed back [00:04:26] Whoa Kemosabe, what part of the game is that? [00:04:26] It's a fact and my war wounds on me can prove it [00:04:26] But look how you made me go and show you I can do it [00:04:26] I solemnly swear to hold it down for my homeboys [00:04:26] Locked up and don't know if they ever comin' home boy [00:04:26] Time keeps tickin', another baby's born [00:04:26] That's gon' go through the same stuff that I went through and more [00:04:26] You wonder why I hustle, my life's on the line [00:04:26] My baby gotta have milk when she crying, c'mon now [00:04:26] And from the day I was born I've been hustlin' strong [00:04:26] I've been strugglin' since a child, now them days is gone [00:04:26] And niggaz said I wouldn't do it now I'm provin' 'em wrong [00:04:26] And now they got their hands out like I owe them some [00:04:26] I ain't got time for the bickerin' and carryin' on [00:04:26] It ain't too much in the hood I don't know [00:04:26] How many times do I have to say that I'm grown [00:04:26] That I'ma Young Buck and still enough to know when you niggaz is hoes [00:04:26] Now everybody got they hand out [00:04:26] Crackhead Willie spent his millions 'til they ranned out [00:04:26] Shorty don't wanna holla now because her man out [00:04:26] But just last week, I couldn't get it out her damn mouth [00:04:26] Nowhere to go, look like I'm stuck in these bricks [00:04:26] Seem like the good die young, the bad get rich quick, enough of this