In The Hood

Chorus - Dashboy

Young nigga in the hood they just don't understand

Every day a gamble with my life right in my hands

Seen too many brothers fall for the same old scams

Young nigga in the hood gotta make it through the plans

Verse 1

Woke up to sirens singing that same old song

Momma on her knees praying I make it home

Corner boys posted with the nickel and the chrome

Told myself I'm different but I'm still right where I'm from

Lost my cousin Jamie summer '21

Bullet caught the block now the block done caught his son

Pre-Chorus

Mama told me run but I'm running out of road

Eighth grade reading but I'm selling backpacks for the load

Chorus - Dashboy

Young nigga in the hood they just don't understand

Every day a gamble with my life right in my hands

Seen too many brothers fall for the same old scams

Young nigga in the hood gotta make it through the plans

Verse 2

Teacher said I'm gifted but they gifted me a label

Looked me in my eyes like I'm destined for a table

With the orange jumpsuit and the case file stable

Had to break the cycle while my paper wasn't stable

Now I'm working double shifts just to flip the situation

Every other night I'm writing rhymes for my salvation

Pre-Chorus

Mama told me run but I'm running out of road

Eighth grade reading but I'm selling backpacks for the load

Chorus - Dashboy

Young nigga in the hood they just don't understand

Every day a gamble with my life right in my hands

Seen too many brothers fall for the same old scams

Young nigga in the hood gotta make it through the plans

Bridge

Maybe one day they'll see past the block and the blockades

Hear the dreams in the static, see the hope in the hopeless

Maybe one day I'll be something they can point to and say

He made it out the concrete with his heart still opеn

Outro - Dashboy

Yeah

(This is for thе block)

(For real)

Verse 3

Got a daughter now, she look at me with different eyes

I been breaking generational curses, no disguise

Used to count the O's now I'm counting up the time

Got a studio in basement, turning trauma into rhymes

Jewelry on my chest but it's not to flex or boast

Every chain I wear remind me of the ghosts

I done carried on my back, I done buried in the coat

Had to laugh to keep from crying when they wrote the eulogy note

Pre-Chorus

Mama told me run, now I'm running through the door

Nineteen years of struggle, I ain't struggling no more

Chorus - Dashboy

Young nigga in the hood they just don't understand

Every day a gamble with my life [Verse 4 - Verse]

Remember sleeping on the floor with no heat in the winter

Now I'm signing contracts, getting bigger than the picture

They told me stay in my lane, I told 'em watch me switch lanes

Same block that tried to break me now I'm parking in the same place

And they looking at me strange like I ain't supposed to change

Like the hood ain't full of dreams that's just waiting for a stage

I'ma build a school right where they used to serve the cane

Let 'em know a young nigga really broke the bloody chain I'ma build a school right where they used to serve the cane

Let 'em know a young nigga really broke the bloody chain

Bridge

This ain't just a song, this a letter to the youth

If you seeing through the smoke, then you seeing through the truth

Every scar is a chapter, every fall is a proof

That the kid who had nothing got everything to lose

And he still ain't lose

Chorus - Dashboy

Young nigga in the hood they just don't understand

Every day a gamble with my life right in my hands

Seen too many brothers fall for the same old scams

Young nigga in the hood gotta make it through the plans

Outro - Dashboy

Yeah

(From the block to the boardroom)

(We made it)

(For real)

(Young nigga in the hood)

(They see me now)

Yeah