[00:00.78]Life in the hood (life in the hood)[00:06.02]Life in the hood (yeah just like a puzzle)[00:11.23]Life in the hood (life in life in the hood)[00:16.26]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle[00:19.44]It's like a jungle sometimes when you rhyme[00:22.75]The hood took you under[00:24.02]Niggas start to wonder why you missin all these summers[00:26.39]I ain't seen the streets in like five or six weeks[00:28.90]Cos I'm back on the cell block lookin like I'm shell shocked[00:31.78]In and out down south up north[00:34.29]I'm back back forth and forth[00:36.78]I can't seem to keep my black ass outta dough[00:39.27]Cos I'm steady doin dirt put in work for the turf[00:41.77]I did a gang of killin and still ain't learnt a damn thing[00:44.41]Except how to gang bang talk slang and shoot game[00:47.26]And now I think I'm the mack of the century[00:49.67]Cos I got this b***h runnin through the penatentiary[00:52.40]But never knowin she was hoe'ing in the hood black[00:54.89]Till the day my homies say 'dre that b***h a hoodrat'[00:57.54]But shoot the package on some nights and I'm alright[01:00.25]Just another piece of the puzzle of my ****ed up life[01:03.25]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)[01:08.18]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)[01:22.81]My life is like a puzzle I thank God for everyday I'm seeing[01:25.74]Livin in the world cos I'm bout european[01:28.38]Bein a young black male is like havin on[01:30.90]Some gaseline underwear bailin through hell[01:33.50]Cos we have no win that we can all see[01:36.07]Ask rodney king michael j and mike t[01:38.56]And what about oj I think it's a set up[01:41.07]Pac you said it first but my nigga keep your head up[01:43.81]They don't wanna see another black man make it[01:46.33]And everything we get that look nice they wanna take it[01:49.09]So make it 187 on the po-lice[01:51.55]I'm tired of seein niggas get stressed and ****ed with no grease[01:54.28]No peace no justice mother**** this[01:56.78]Live bg's doin dirt outta cuttless[01:59.33]The three strikes march It didn't help the situation[02:01.81]All it did was increase the jail population[02:04.74]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)[02:10.04]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)[02:25.45](Life in the hood is just like a puzzle)[02:30.70]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle[02:35.00]My homies is a piece to my puzzle I love they ass to death[02:38.08]But the more I look around there ain't too many of us left[02:40.55]Survival of the fittest and the strong don't survive[02:43.14]I can count more real niggas dead than alive[02:45.84]So niggas stop the talkin let that bull shit keep walkin[02:48.32]I'm tryin to get mine so quit wasting my time[02:50.88]And if I had a dime for everytime I met a b***h[02:53.46]That I thought was the shit my ass would be rich[02:56.12]But no I'm broke and b*****s ain't a joke[02:58.63]Nigga you better check yo b***h talkin shit will get that hoe smoked[03:01.48]Life's A Puzzle - B.G. Knocc out & Dresta - Real Brothas - b***h don't even make a nigga start[03:03.86]Tryin to get inside my heart so she can tear my life apart[03:06.36]I already got enough strain on my brain[03:08.93]Than to be busy worried about some busy ass dame[03:11.57]But game recognise game with the dresta[03:14.04]Fool I thought you knew about the westside gangsta[03:17.14]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)[03:22.36]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)[03:38.04]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)[03:43.06]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)[03:58.52]Life in the hood is just like a puzzle (like a puzzle)[04:03.60]If in the game your lookin for trouble (lookin for trouble)