What Happened To Our Hood

What happened to our hood?
Things ain't the same no more, no more

What happened to our hood?
It used to be all good
Now everything is out of control
It hurts me deep inside to see our people dying
Why, why, why?
We used to play games all night long
Now all my loved 1's are gone
This ain't even cool it ain't even cool

Now I'm gonna tell you how it all got started
We was all young hard headed & broken hearte
D got caught up in the game, caught up
In the hustle next thing you know we comin' with the muscle
Respect for the streets was invented in our souls
But that's the way you moved if you wanted to grow old
Sooner or later somebody always caught a case but we was like
A students in your mama's face
We knew the rules, respect for the king
My, my how the good can change
Every fool you know saying
Keep it real but we was still real w/out our steel
1 on 1, man to man & after we scrapped we shook hands
For the good of the hood & the hood was good that's what really?
We misunderstood?

What happened to our hood?
It used to be all good
Now everything is out of control
It hurts me deep inside to see our people dying
Why, why, why?
We used to play games all night long
Now all my loved 1's are gone
This ain't even cool it ain't even cool

Now every little thug wanna try to get stripes
But you ain't a man 'cause ya stole somebody's life
'Cause there's a bullet with your name on it another young thug
Wants stripes don't you know it
The world is mad (hardest?) on our kids babies in the ground
Even tho they could live
Dead and gone in their teenage years by the hands of their peers
The memories so vivid & clear, we'll be missing you for years
We'll be missing you with tears, we'll be wishing you were here
Life & pain they're 1 and the same & all of our lives
We'll speak your name. It hurts deep to know that you are gone
It hurts me to have to sing this song

What happened to our hood?
It used to be all good
Now everything is out of control
It hurts me deep inside to see our people dying
Why, why, why?
We used to play games all night long
Now all my loved 1's are gone
This ain't even cool it ain't even cool

I gotta move on but moving is hard & I gotta think
Because of this I found God
Our world will never be the same
My heart will always know the pain and my lips
Will always speak your name, your face I'll see in the rain
I miss you, miss you, I'll miss you now and for always

What happened to our hood?
It used to be all good
Now everything is out of control
It hurts me deep inside to see our people dying
Why, why, why?
We used to play games all night long
Now all my loved 1's are gone
This ain't even cool it ain't even cool