Souls In Chains - Welcome To My Hood lyrics

[jD][Chorus] Queens bridge welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer Red Fern welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer [jD][Verse1] Welcome to the bridge To my borough my building To the place catch a case court date for drug dealings Turn the page Journey through the streets of the Queen From Chi city to the flooded streets of Saint New Orleans Subway cars Hollis Park Adolescents in Deville's busting shots at different bloods Claiming different sets Banging different cards In different parts of the large apple Queen of spades, Learned to walk and talk inside the Devils la**o Jakes patrol the city blocks posted on the avenues Bloomberg gave the go ahead caging us like animals Walls painted pistol Let off a black haze Sean Bell shot 50 times they thought they'd get away This is my hood Q-U-E-E-N-S From Sunny Side to the Gardens Elmhurst and all the rest Italian Ices' crazy crack the hydrants in the hood Back to the block I wouldn't leave if I could So welcome [jD][Chorus] Brownsville welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer LES welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer [Oplus][Verse2] Welcome to my hood To my city my land To the place were the law roll up in the vans And try to can us Journey through the streets of the Chi From CA to NY Hustling no the system don't understand us Soldiers be concealing there hammers under bandanas Legends are apprehended for antics on city cameras Go for broke or go bananas You know the game Try to rise above it but your Souls In Chains My soul remains United with the struggle to grind The under dogs try to do right but struggle with crime It troubles my mind The righteous living in the city broke Where all the ghetto children got to live as adults This is my hood the streets that made me crazy The same avenues that raised me cradled me as a baby Maybe I'm created to save the hood Back to the block I wouldn't leave if I could So welcome [jD][Chorus] Cabrini Green welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer U Dub welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer [jD][Verse3] Welcome to our hood to our areas Our gutters and our ghettos Three digits and a skyline representing where we step through Walk the blocks Chuck Taylors on the cement Laced up packed from the waist up Stacking bricks of cheap meth Supreme Team McGriff Fat Cat The dream team Oral addicts serve the fix The city the grind low ranks on the lookout The blue ride by smoke a pig like a cookout Cumulate the criminals Subtract um' by the church goers Square root the sum, Sad to say it but the perp's potent Vernon Ave. with the .40s smoking Homie got shot rough no love Affiliate with the filthiest dealiest baddest bunch In my city Great walls divine Puerto rocks from the Spanish blocks Russians from the east side The first Italian Polish Germ representing what's good QB A to F all day all hood [jD][Chorus] Montebello welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer San Bernardino welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer LA welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a prayer New York welcome to my hood I'm a show you all what's really good Welcome to my hood d**h in the air If you want to live you got to say a