Hood Politics (feat. Andrea Maria)

Wow, it's getting real crazy out here
Everywhere we look we see
Crime, poverty, drug selling and drug using
Prostitution, homelessness
We caught up in some true hood politics

Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Who off the streets these hood politics)

How long will we continue to live in this condition?
Most of us are living in a place where love is missing
Negligence and depending on government assistance
Wishing for a lick that we can hit, it's nothing different
Hard to get some money so you almost out of luck now
Had to pull a stunt and got a felony, you stuck now
Did some time in prison, it was rough when you got busted
Couldn't find no work when you got out, went back to hustling

You was still on paper so right back in jail you landed
You followed the formula exactly how they planned it
Locked you in the cell and then they held you like a hostage
'Cause prison is a industry and niggas are the profit

Acting like they care but secretly we getting laughed at
How did our hood get tore up? We don't even ask that
Looking for a way to make people open their eyes up
Others making laws to guarantee we never rise up (rise up)

Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Adrea, sing it with me baby, c'mon)
Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Who off the streets these hood politics)

We be buying nonsense when we can't even afford it
Money running through our hands but somehow we the poorest
Consuming and not building, the cycle's never ending
Not focused on businesses or land, too busy spending
How did we become this unproductive is the question

Tennis shoes and jewelry more important than investing
Took your human rights away, run in your house and blast you
Now we out here begging for something that should be natural

We don't own no property so gradually they come slow
Buying up the hood and building high rises and condos
You been out here all your life but this is not your own crib
Too expensive for your ass to stay so where you gon' live?
Everywhere we see and look it ain't nothing but bad news
Every corner, every block they poison us with fast food
Always in a bad mood, hating pressure runs us
That's why we on dope and every night we hearing guns bust (guns bust)

Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Adrea, sing it with me baby, c'mon)
Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Who off the streets these hood politics)

Politicians seeking office all for selfish reasons
They only come around the hood when it's election season
Show up at your church looking for votes because they leeching

Soon as they get in they disappear and you can't reach 'em
They legislating, every law they make is like a trap door

Black ones sell us out for higher status or some cash flow
Rewired our thinking so that wrong is made to feel right
Silly videos that take our focus off of real life
Broke our manhood down, they shoot us and arrest us
Living off our women, now our women don't respect us
No one to protect us, ain't no hope around me
How can he feed his family when he locked up in the county?
Baby mama, baby daddy fighting on the daily
Prescription drugs got the people out here going crazy
Purposely they keep us broke and always under stress man

All because they treating us like pieces in a chess game (chess game)

Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Adrea, sing it with me baby, c'mon)
Just because they smiling, laughing when they passing through
(Wassup)
It don't mean that they won't kill you
(Who created hood politics)
(Who off the streets these hood politics)