H00D Recollect

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24 Nov 2020

growing up in the hood is like growing up in a competition always looking over your shoulder each day a repetition parents telling their kids not to worry about the gunshots telling them they will be safe, itsnonlynon the next block hearing the cars flying down the street, peeling off sheets ducking under windows worried that our house will be next nothing parents can do, barely making paychecks come home from work sweat drippn from they necks men on all the corners looking suspicious it's a threat stuck in a never ending circle of will I live or will I die stuck with my moms story books to read at night sirens filling every dream especially in the summer time it seems like the season's are opposites, so cold outside just a little recollection when I could remember a line God will look after us my dad said in a rhyme these are just tests he gives us to make our outline the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy grindn life tryna make to the free wayyy hood life, isn't for the weak or cheeesayy the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy I remember going to aldis to get food for the month 250 is all we had to allow us to use our gums momma resorted to some hustlin and got us a couple guns then shit hit the fan when her and her man were done played me like a fool asking me to look for some socks unlocked the back door but I was focused on the clock same p.o.s robbed us for almost all we had even took my shit, and I was just a little kid remember yellin at my mom out of straight frustration he took our guns and my brand new play station did it like he never had any hesitation, a hood nigga used to the operation felt like my whole world was under observation nightmares replay in my head, losing my concentration I promised my self when I'd get older I'd improve my location but the hood never leaves you no matter what destination the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy grindn life tryna make to the free wayyy hood life, isn't for the weak or cheeesayy the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy

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growing up in the hood is like growing up in a competition always looking over your shoulder each day a repetition parents telling their kids not to worry about the gunshots telling them they will be safe, itsnonlynon the next block hearing the cars flying down the street, peeling off sheets ducking under windows worried that our house will be next nothing parents can do, barely making paychecks come home from work sweat drippn from they necks men on all the corners looking suspicious it's a threat stuck in a never ending circle of will I live or will I die stuck with my moms story books to read at night sirens filling every dream especially in the summer time it seems like the season's are opposites, so cold outside just a little recollection when I could remember a line God will look after us my dad said in a rhyme these are just tests he gives us to make our outline the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy grindn life tryna make to the free wayyy hood life, isn't for the weak or cheeesayy the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy I remember going to aldis to get food for the month 250 is all we had to allow us to use our gums momma resorted to some hustlin and got us a couple guns then shit hit the fan when her and her man were done played me like a fool asking me to look for some socks unlocked the back door but I was focused on the clock same p.o.s robbed us for almost all we had even took my shit, and I was just a little kid remember yellin at my mom out of straight frustration he took our guns and my brand new play station did it like he never had any hesitation, a hood nigga used to the operation felt like my whole world was under observation nightmares replay in my head, losing my concentration I promised my self when I'd get older I'd improve my location but the hood never leaves you no matter what destination the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy grindn life tryna make to the free wayyy hood life, isn't for the weak or cheeesayy the days we have isn't always that eaaasayy

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