[00:00:00] Da Hood (LP Version) - Da Youngsta's [00:00:24] Another day in the hood [00:00:25] I awake from the sound of a gunshot [00:00:27] Pop pop pop who needs a damn alarm clock [00:00:30] I got a homie out there clocking the white rocks [00:00:32] He carries a hype glock but he came to a slight stop [00:00:35] He found himself behind bars [00:00:36] Collected more scars got right out and broke more laws [00:00:40] Some people wonder is it just because he live in the inner city [00:00:42] He wanna be a hood like Frank Nitti [00:00:44] Cause when she's rolling the streets she don't care [00:00:46] He'll stick you up for your money [00:00:48] And make you strip to your underwear [00:00:49] I know it's kinda pathetic [00:00:51] But where I live at you get used to the sound of the paramedics [00:00:54] Because it's brothers like him all around here [00:00:57] Ain't nowhere to go so you gotta stay down here [00:00:59] Cause if it ain't another brother shot dead [00:01:01] It's a junkie od-in laying on his death bed [00:01:04] This is the type of thing that I see everyday [00:01:06] Everything is gloomy and grey but what can I say [00:01:09] I'm still surviving cause I'm taking the bad with the good [00:01:12] It's just another day in the hood [00:01:13] Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [00:01:17] It's just another day in the hood [00:01:18] Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [00:01:22] Another day in the hood a kid is caught in a crossfire [00:01:26] Gunfire lighten the streets like fireworks [00:01:29] Prostitutes sell their body for drugs and loot [00:01:31] Flagging down cars with businessmen in suits [00:01:34] They always come to the hard parts [00:01:35] Filled with the dealers swindlers hustlers and car sharks [00:01:38] Gun shell that grabbed lives litter the playground [00:01:41] So tell me where the little kids gonna play now [00:01:43] Going to school I gotta walk through the metal detector [00:01:46] Cause too many kids they pack tools [00:01:48] A lot of kids my age they want the fast money [00:01:51] Because their moms and pops never had money [00:01:53] Out of nowhere they wearin' the hype gear [00:01:55] Don't nobody care to tell the kids to hold it right there [00:01:58] Only your friends wonder where you got the money from [00:02:00] Two years ago you was nothing but a young buck [00:02:03] Now you're rollin' with a roughneck troop [00:02:05] Looking for kids to recruit to your roughneck group [00:02:08] They try to tell you that it ain't that hard [00:02:10] You can make mad money selling dope by the school yard [00:02:13] But either way I take the bad with the good [00:02:15] Cause to me it's just another day in the hood [00:02:17] Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [00:02:21] It's just another day in the hood [00:02:22] Da hood da hood da hood da hood da hood [00:02:26] Another day in the hood a man is laying on the ground [00:02:29] But he ain't dead it's just a homeless man named Fred [00:02:32] Always asking for a quarter and asked me to marry his daughter [00:02:35] So he can get off the cruddy corner [00:02:37] I know this man is really mentally ill but still [00:02:40] Hard to kill so I hand him a dollar bill [00:02:42] Cause through the winter and the summer [00:02:44] A fifth of wine on the side keeps the man from goin' under [00:02:47] I know some chick named Helen always beggin' and yellin' [00:02:50] Begging for money but they gettin' nothing [00:02:52] Cause if you give her some cash flow fast [00:02:54] She's going straight across the street to the dopeman to get a blast [00:02:57] This type of thing I see through my young eyes [00:02:59] So I realize I gotta uprise [00:03:02] And stand my ground like a grown man [00:03:04] I seen more drama in the streets than an old man [00:03:06] And I admit it ain't easy [00:03:08] Lookin' out my window's like watchin' Baretta on TV [00:03:11] Cop car chases niggaz smackin' girls in their faces [00:03:14] And redneck cops that are racist [00:03:16] But either way I take the bad with the good [00:03:18] Cause to me it's just another day in the hood