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“Hood Life”<br />

BY FUNMILOLA LAWSON (LOLA)<br />

We minorities living in priority’s/<br />

On the streets we stalked by authorities/<br />

And even though we out here tryna’ liv da good life/<br />

No matter what we kinda’ stuck living da hood life/<br />

X2<br />

Its kinda’ sad the way they c us on da tv/<br />

They think we killing, selling drugs, and we needy<br />

But its a different kinda’ problem that we see/<br />

If I ain’t stay out on da grind who’s gonna feed me/<br />

Over policed we always being watched n getting stopped/<br />

They steady waiting for da next dude to get popped/<br />

They wanna c us kill ourselves on our own blocks/<br />

Outline da bodies on da floor wid da white chalk/<br />

Its kinda hard tryna’ beat the stats/cuz They delete the facts/<br />

And then repeat the trash/<br />

Its just media this the media that, they fail to recognize the<br />

truth Wikipedia crap/<br />

I’m jus guessing its wuna those hood thingz<br />

The consequences of what living in da hood brings/<br />

They try n label us n call us at risk/<br />

Blown up all the bad But they never see the good things/<br />

We minorities livin in prioritys/<br />

On the streets we stalked by authorities/<br />

And even though we out here tryna liv da good life/<br />

No matter what we kinda stuck livng da hood life/ X2<br />

I’m running outta ways to hide da struggles of my<br />

life/<br />

Ain’t nobody in da world gonna tell me its ii/<br />

Its a fight every morning afternoon everynight/<br />

N I write cover da struggles n da pain n da fright/<br />

Where’s da light dat’ used to shine on dat’ spot dat’<br />

made me bright/<br />

Left behind with the happiness behind with polite/<br />

Fuck the fight climb on top with my strength every<br />

might/<br />

And I mite one day forget the pain I have in my<br />

sight/<br />

Remember da good times things used to b ii/<br />

Not tonight cuz’ I’m still tryna’ live da hood life/<br />

Da good life where everything’s about the cheddar<br />

cheddar/<br />

Like money makes everything round here better/<br />

Struggling back then I’m still struggling today the<br />

only difference is this time I’m tryna’ change my<br />

ways/<br />

Tryna’ change the phase/<br />

Tryna’ fight the blaze/<br />

Tryna’ eat tomorrow so I’m on da grind today/<br />

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