[Akon]nChehnn[Styles P]nThis shit is crazynCrazynn[Akon]nIt's one of those things mannYou gotta experience to know what I'm talkin' aboutnHa hanIt's where the goin' get roughnn[Styles P]nAkonnn[Akon]nThe tough stay toughnn[Styles P]nStyles Pnn[Akon]nUp frontnLet's gonKonvictnn[Akon]nWe in too deep to turn back now Dnn[Styles P]nSure isnn[Akon]nWatch yourselfnBefore you getnBlown awaynn[Styles P]nYou know where I come fromnThe place where your fate is a micnOr a bull or a dum dumnA jail cell a pine boxnAnd brothers is dumb youngnYoung boysnStill bustin' guns for the slumnthat they come fromnCops is the only ones they gon' run fromnThat's itnThey puttin' they hood upnBut 9 out of 10 of us ain't got good lucknYou gon' ride on a man and catch 25nOr get hit and get sent to the other sidenYou lose both sides of the coinnSo me I play the hood babynNot in thenMama got a little church I could joinnBut I didn't go yetnMan got a mosque I could joinnBut I didn't go yetnCool with the devil on my backnI'm in cold sweatsnBout to do some dirtnIn some dirty black old sweatsnIf you known you shoulda shown the waynMosta the hood bout to get blown awaynn[Akon]nCause I was raised up to show no fearnCowardly hearts'll never last long herenIf you ain't man enough to make shit clearnGuaranteed you'll get blown awaynCause I done seen the block break down tearsnAnd I done seen the cops break my peersnTryin' to hold on to a couple more yearsnTryin' not to get blown awaynnSee I ain't never shot nobodynBut I'm known for fightin'nSo when I strike mannYou'll think you been struck by lightningnShouldn't have to prove myself by killin' a nigganEven a child could figure out how to pull the trigganRetaliation only takes anger mixed with passionnSo you target in the distance and keep on blastin'nThey say guns don't kill people, people donSo when you're hit mannYou feel that shit the evils donCan't see myself get beat downnMy eyes swollennMom's cryin' they don't know what happenednMy pride's stolennIf I ain't got my heat then I got a bladenThat hit ya offnnCause I was raised up to show no fearnCowardly hearts'll never last long herenIf you ain't man enough to make shit clearnGuaranteed you'll get blown awaynCause I done seen the block break down tearsnAnd I done seen the cops break my peersnTryin' to hold on to a couple more yearsnTryin' not to get blown awaynnKeep my eye out for jakesnEars to the streetsnOther eye out for snakesnAnd these scandalous freaksnIf we ain't on good termsnDon't bother to speaknDon't smile and try to spark a convo with menSame thing'll make ya laugh it'll make ya crynThis quiet nigga, he'll take ya lifenHate for it to be the world's sacrificenIf somebody else could travelnThrough the tunnel of lifenCause I'm that type of guy I'll be therenWhen you're ridin'nBut I'll stay to myselfnSo if you see me out therenwith a bear we fightin'nThen nigga go help the bearnnCause I was raised up to show no fearnCowardly hearts'll never last long herenIf you ain't man enough to make shit clearnGuaranteed you'll get blown awaynCause I done seen the block break down tearsnAnd I done seen the cops break my peersnTryin' to hold on to a couple more yearsnTryin' not to get blown away