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[00:02.05]This one's for the
[00:05.46]This one's for the
[00:09.65]For my own home, yeah
[00:13.14]Now this one's for the streets, niggas holding blocks down for keeps
[00:17.20]Selling their body trying to eat, yes now this is for my home
[00:22.16]Where I lay my dome for rest, this is for my niggas smoking ses'
[00:26.31](Hey) now this is for my block, running from cops trying to live
[00:31.27]This is for my mom's shedding tears
[00:33.43](Hey) now this one's for my niggas that have passed away, gone
[00:38.08]You better know you got to hold it down round here
[00:40.92]This is for the streets and the hood (DJ On Point)
[00:42.24]This for the people want to see what's good
[00:44.22]This for the people that's down about being down and out
[00:46.51]And for my three strike niggas trying to flee on foot
[00:48.66]For my niggas that a murk that K off or my dogs that a work that yay off
[00:51.96]Or if you got to go to work no days off or if you ain't got a job, got laid off
[00:55.85]I'd fuck a million off rap, this if you dealing out crack or feeling out apps
[01:00.11]I'm feeling you scratch
[01:01.97]The city housing ceiling is cracked so
[01:04.12]If you boosting stealing off racks
[01:05.99]Like fuck whatever mom's and steals 'cause you black
[01:08.63]Now let's take the ghetto and go deep inside it
[01:10.92]Hoodie always trying to keep shit quiet
[01:12.48]Keep shit private, keep dividing
[01:14.39]They don't want America to see inside it
[01:15.90]They don't want America to see the riots
[01:17.61]Act a fool like when they blast a tool, like when they robbing, they mobbing
[01:20.33]Ain't no option, they be doing what they have to do
[01:22.92]Dude's is snitching and there's narcs on the strip
[01:24.70]So they must have got a new suspicion
[01:26.49]Dude's is tricking
[01:27.26]Cash is low so on the weekends probably got their main boo's stripping
[01:29.76]Steak-outs, I need a way out and when I make out trust it, I'm a stay out
[01:32.84]And I'd be caked out, that's a safe route, y'all can kill each other all day now
[01:36.21]'Cause I'm sick of all, from the bodegas, chinese joints, and the liquor stores
[01:40.27]Like just get rid of it all, it only exhibits for niggas to fall
[01:43.91]But niggas is quick to ignore, prohibit a niggas to soar
[01:46.42]Or gripping the pistols and fours and getting you niggas in court
[01:48.84]And filling the prisons with y'all
[01:50.84]These niggas is forgetting
[01:51.71]The system is bored, persistent on ditching the people
[01:53.65]The sticks and the whores live with the pigeons up north
[01:55.78]Now what you petitioning for?
[01:57.43]Etcetera, no the hood won't hold me down, I stay one step ahead of ya
[02:00.96]And if it comes down to it I'd die for this, dude's lost they life over pettier
[02:04.45]The muggings, the rapes, and the looting, the shooting, the danger
[02:07.59]The rage and the fury, the banger cage in the jury
[02:10.62]They all out for me, I got a mouth to feed so fuck stress my baby mama gives
[02:14.76]Fuck stick up boys and the foes that know where my baby mama lives
[02:18.17]I'm back in it, that rented or that with the tax tangent stash in it
[02:22.35]Trying to grow but I'm trapped in it nigga, glass tinted nigga
[02:26.96]Bad tempered nigga, Blat at a nigga, yeah I'm pass betting nigga, chill
[02:32.00]Let me breathe
[02:37.88]At times I get upset when I'm trying to rep
[02:39.73]And there's always a nigga in debt and there's always a nigga to step
[02:42.50]And there's always a nigga you met and there's always a nigga you let
[02:45.47]Hood's filthy, verdict's in and the hood's guilty
[02:48.25]Double edge swore, 'cause the hood'll kill me but the hood feels me
[02:52.42]If you make it out then pull a glass up, toast motherfucker
[02:55.10]It's the oath, motherfucker
[02:57.05]It's the growth, motherfucker
[02:57.91]Now this one's for the streets, niggas holding blocks down for keeps
[03:02.37]Selling their body trying to eat, yes now this is for my home
[03:06.61]Where I lay my dome for rest, this is for my niggas smoking ses'
[03:11.16](Hey) now this is for my block, running from cops trying to live
[03:15.58]This is for my mom's shedding tears
[03:18.19](Hey) now this one's for my niggas that have passed away, gone
[03:22.17]You better know you got to hold it down round here
[03:25.60]Mood Music
[03:26.43]The worst of Joe Budden
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