[00:00.78]Life in the hood (life in the hood)
[00:06.02]Life in the hood (yeah just like a puzzle)
[00:11.23]Life in the hood (life in life in the hood)
[00:16.26]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle
[00:19.44]It's like a jungle sometimes when you rhyme
[00:22.75]The hood took you under
[00:24.02]N*ggas start to wonder why you missin all these summers
[00:26.39]I ain't seen the streets in like five or six weeks
[00:28.90]Cos I'm back on the cell block lookin like I'm shell shocked
[00:31.78]In and out down south up north
[00:34.29]I'm back back forth and forth
[00:36.78]I can't seem to keep my black ass outta dough
[00:39.27]Cos I'm steady doin dirt put in work for the turf
[00:41.77]I did a gang of killin and still ain't learnt a damn thing
[00:44.41]Except how to gang bang talk slang and shoot game
[00:47.26]And now I think I'm the mack of the century
[00:49.67]Cos I got this b*tch runnin through the penatentiary
[00:52.40]But never knowin she was hoe'ing in the hood black
[00:54.89]Till the day my homies say 'dre that b*tch a hoodrat'
[00:57.54]But shoot the package on some nights and I'm alright
[01:00.25]Just another piece of the puzzle of my f*cked up life
[01:03.25]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)
[01:08.18]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)
[01:22.81]My life is like a puzzle I thank God for everyday I'm seeing
[01:25.74]Livin in the world cos I'm bout european
[01:28.38]Bein a young black male is like havin on
[01:30.90]Some gaseline underwear bailin through hell
[01:33.50]Cos we have no win that we can all see
[01:36.07]Ask rodney king michael j and mike t
[01:38.56]And what about oj I think it's a set up
[01:41.07]Pac you said it first but my n*gga keep your head up
[01:43.81]They don't wanna see another black man make it
[01:46.33]And everything we get that look nice they wanna take it
[01:49.09]So make it 187 on the po-lice
[01:51.55]I'm tired of seein n*gga's get stressed and f*cked with no grease
[01:54.28]No peace no justice motherf*ck this
[01:56.78]Live bg's doin dirt outta cuttless
[01:59.33]The three strikes march It didn't help the situation
[02:01.81]All it did was increase the jail population
[02:04.74]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)
[02:10.04]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)
[02:25.45](Life in the hood is just like a puzzle)
[02:30.70]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle
[02:35.00]My homies is a piece to my puzzle I love they ass to death
[02:38.08]But the more I look around there ain't too many of us left
[02:40.55]Survival of the fittest and the strong don't survive
[02:43.14]I can count more real n*ggas dead than alive
[02:45.84]So n*ggas stop the talkin let that bulls*it keep walkin
[02:48.32]I'm tryin to get mine so quit wasting my time
[02:50.88]And if I had a dime for everytime I met a b*tch
[02:53.46]That I thought was the s*it my ass would be rich
[02:56.12]But no I'm broke and b*tches ain't a joke
[02:58.63]N*gga you better check yo b*tch talkin s*it will get that hoe smoked
[03:01.48]B*tch don't even make a n*gga start
[03:03.86]Tryin to get inside my heart so she can tear my life apart
[03:06.36]I already got enough strain on my brain
[03:08.93]Than to be busy worried about some busy ass dame
[03:11.57]But game recognise game with the dresta
[03:14.04]Fool I thought you knew about the westside gangsta
[03:17.14]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)
[03:22.36]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)
[03:38.04]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)
[03:43.06]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)
[03:58.52]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)
[04:03.60]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)