Hood Politics - K Rino

Wow, it’s gettin' real crazy out here

Everywhere we look we see crime, poverty, drug-sellin' and drug-usin',

prostitution, homelessness

We caught up in some true hood politics

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Who orchestrates these hood politics?

How long will we continue to live in this condition?

Most of us are livin' in a place where love is missin'

Negligence and dependin' on government assistance

Wishin' 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 hustlin'

You was still on paper so right back in jail you landed

You followed the formula exactly how they planned it

Locked you in a cell and then they held you like a hostage

‘cause prison is a industry and niggas are the profit

Actin' like they care but secretly, we gettin' laughed at

How did our hood get tore up?

We don’t even ask that

Lookin' for a way to make people open their eyes up

Others makin' laws to guarantee we never rise up

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c’mon

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Who orchestrates these hood politics?

We be buyin' when we can’t even afford it

Money runnin' through our hands but somehow we the poorest

Consumin' and not dealin', the cycle’s never-endin'

Not focused on businesses or land, too busy spendin'

How did we become this unproductive is the question

Tennis shoes and jewelry more important than investin'

Took your human rights away, run in your house and blast you

Now we out here beggin' for somethin' that should be natural

We don’t own no property so gradually they come slow

Buyin' up the hood and buildin' high-rises and condos

You’ve 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 seem to look it ain’t nothin' but bad news

Every corner, every block, they poison us with fast food

Always in a bad mood, hate and pressure runs us

That’s why we on dope and every night we hearin' guns bust

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c’mon

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Who orchestrates these hood politics?

Politicians seekin' office off of selfish reasons

They only come around the hood when it’s election season

Show up at your church lookin' for folks because they leechin'

Soon as they get in, they disappear and you can’t reach ‘em

They legislatin' every law, they make this like a trap though

Black ones sell us off for higher status on some cash flow

Rewired, I think it’s so that wrong is made to feel right

Silly videos to take our focus off of real life

Broke our manhood, now they shoot us and arrest us

Livin' 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 fightin' on a daily

Prescription drugs got the people out here going crazy

Purposely they keep us broke and always under stress, main

All because they treatin' us like pieces in a chess game

Just because they smile and laughin' when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c’mon

Just because they smile and laughing when they passin' through

What’s up?

It don’t mean that they won’t kill you

Who created hood politics?

Who orchestrates these hood politics?