[Intro: Havoc]
Yeah the hood got me feeling the pain
It seems that things will never change
The pursuit for peace
Will never cease
Because my brothers
Always windup dead in our streets

[Verse 1: Prodeje]
In the morning when I rise, I open up my eyes
Thinking bout the prize, the days I've survived
I roam the zones
Where they Locs up
Its the Prod be my name, and the hood goin' nuts
Ducking from the hot shells, everywhere I turn
Tryn'a fight the fire but I'm still gettin' burned
Pressing on my luck as the smoke rises up
Gettin cramped from the 40oz in my guts
Tried the straight and clean
But they keep player-hating me
Had to be a G just to live life easily
Paid for my crimes and I'm coping
Livin' in the hood
Understood leaves a brother wide open
Tryna make a way to another day
I fight the feeling
But alI I seem to see is cap peelin'
I thought I could repent and you'd save me
But look at what you have gave me
I feel I'm ten seconds from a grave

[Chorus: Prodeje]
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain

[Verse 2: Prodeje]
Let me take a step back, let you know how it was
Never did I gangbang like the Blood or the Cuzz
I was a hustler living for the P-A-Y
And I was breaking other brothers cause I had to survive
Pulling jack moves, shooting crabs, pool, slanging cavi
Rolling backstreets in my 86 caddy
Hookers on my side and nobody defied
Because they knew a nigga trip and a nigga was fried
Stop and conversate, help my hood homies
And till one up my homies pulled a 9mil on me
PH'ing in vain cause I was generous
He made me have to do him
And treat him like I never even knew him
Now I'm on the run
I'm from your hood to the next hood
Losing my grips, and getting short on my chips
I put it down
But the hood took me under like Eiht said
I feel I'm ten seconds from a cell or death bed

[Chorus: Prodeje]
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain

[Verse 3: Prodeje]
Soon they caught me, I did my time
Now I'm back chilling
It's been a grip of years but I got the same feeling
The hood never changed, all I'm seeing is Locs
On the corner Khakis saggin', looking evil at folks
I thought they knew the situation but it's twisted
They wanna get ill and test my heart
But I shouldn't deal with it
I'm not a buster 'cause I'm smarter then that now
If murder was the case I'd smoke his ass like the Dogg Pound now
What should I do, I reside and keep pride
Denied what he tried and prevented a homicide
But every day it's gettin' deeper
It seems they wanna put a brother in a sleeper
Tryna weather the storm cause getting wet ain't the object
I'm not the one for running but I'm getting a complex
The hood is my hom and I'ma roam
If this life is what you gave me
I'm living ten seconds from the grave, G

[Chorus: Prodeje]
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain
I know it's trife
I try to run away from my life
I feel the strife
Reality can cut like a knife
I'm in the hood
And all I wanna do is maintain
Goin' insane
The hood got me feelin' the pain

[Outro: Dawn Green]
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Somebody, somebody
Feelin' the pain
The hood got me going insane