[Intro: Krept]
Yeah
The hood
The ends
The ghetto
Whatever you wanna call it
I call it the devil’s playground
I realise late but better late than never
Yeah
[Verse 1: Krept]
Driving through the hood (Hood), thinking how fucked it is (Yeah)
Like how the fuck can anybody be in love with this (Huh?)
Nobody’s house round here’s got a butler in (Nah)
I see a heroin addict here suffering
Hold on, I used to fuck with him (What else?)
That’s Aaron from school, I grew up with him (What else?)
I used to chill, kickball and get lunch with him (What else)
What a shame now the hoods caught up with him (Stress)
And these hood girls completely insane
They got more cleavage than brains
They think we’re dogs ‘cause we want a one nighter
No, 'cause you're a hoe, and we don’t wanna wife ya' (Nah)
Sitting here thinking how the hood left us
Dead, jail, couple niggas went nuts
Thinking about my life what do I really need?
Turn 'need' around—what I really need is the deen (Real talk)
The gangsters of the Twenty-first century
No remorse screaming Fuck the penitentiary
They’ll run up on you while you're with your ex talking about your pregnancy (What else?)
Then pill your wig for your Ecstasy (Oh)
Now revenge is a must
And your friends get gloves, then ride on ‘em with that .38 snub
We’ll take yours if you take one of us
That’s what they thinking as they drive your mums
Kick off the door than they beat off that gun
So you duck and you run
And all you thinking is they come to my mums; are they dumb?
And the cycle goes on, and the riding don’t stop
And people from both sides getting dropped
If you grew up in a gang, then I know you can relate
I wish someone schooled us earlier, now it’s too late
Before the Gips set saga
Before Kone lost his father
The road 'tings dead, but we learnt this all after
[Refrain: Krept]
There’s way more to life than the hood
I don't care who the baddest, meanest, person is
Can’t take that to your grave with you, homes
We learnt the hard way, but it made us who we are today
And that’s real talk
[Verse 2: Konan]
That’s why I think about it daily
It’s like god took Carl just to save me
From then I knew I’d never be the same, me
Now I see sense, that shit changed me
Yeh, I’ve been through a lot
Surrounded by these fools that would rather see me drop
I was at the bottom with visions of the top
Sitting in jail tryna think out of the box
I remember the times when
Life was just hype and excitement
Yeh, we should’ve been revising
But we was busy running from the sirens
Now all these bright lights got me wanting more
Just came off the phone and me and mum just had the longest talk
But when the sky falls, I know I’ll still be wishing that we had bonded more
Went from tryna wrap food to trying to make rap tunes
Get out of the trap before it traps you
Hoping Karma don’t catch you
'Cause lifes all Twitter 'til
They’re pointing guns at you
Why would you wanna go legit when crime pays
Don’t go Uni; still got high grade
Trying to move forward
Friends are moving sideways
‘Cause they love it when your down here when your u
Feeling like you're stuck
Ain’t got nobody to trust (Noone)
Now you’re moving power when you're with the chick
'Cause those stoosh girls will have you in Little Mix
And all you wanna do is leave the ends
'Cause where was everybody when you need them?
The hoods fucked, yeah, I see it now, I’m just pissed I couldn’t see it then
[Outro Konan]
It’s like, you have to see it, to actually know you don’t wanna be in it
It's like my mum always used to say to me: "If you don't hate, you must feel."
And we done a lot of feeling
A lot feelin'
Kone
