We talk to go back, this time, For a place to call my own, For a place that I call home. We talk to go back, this time, For a place to call my own, For a place that I call home. (It's real) Yeah, Yeah and the OP showed me The game so coldly OG's scolded me so pain don't fold me, The game done became so compod And forced me to be lowkey and the thing closely Some niggas ride with me, Some don't know me, Some still confide to me, Some folks owe me (they do), Any nigga saying Sevn's fake is a phony. Been trying to get my cheddar level straight And keep it holy (praise god) Will give respect to the feds who were before me Give nothing less than my best for the homies. Never will give my breath for respect that is owed me Anything less ill request that you blow me Cuz you did not hold me Down when i was hungry Or pleasing up for OZ's Or fleaing from the police Yeah i respectfully rep the peeper od Till they kill me Get 6 of my realest homies Got a hole nigga Yeah this is my letter to the hood (to the hood) I wrote it to make it better understood (understood) One day I'm gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you like I should Yeah this is my letter to the hood I wrote it to make it better understood One day im gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you better like I should And I used to wake up and look at the way that you shined Put a swisher in the air So grateful cuz you were mine Not often but I get reminded of how this family was built And if not for but a second I could breathe, easy i could tilt And all of a sudden it just hits me With the force of a slug to the back Like where we were used to be was life But its far from where we're at Now i got you in the mirror But i can still see you infront of me And im thinking i should leave But i swear this is where i wanna be And without all popping, The hooting and hollering The squabbing We could've been one hell of a team Too tight knit for a problem But the option with the caution Was never properly presented With every avenue Some youngin with pills prostitues and spinach Now it's all a matter of time before you find me With a needle in my arm And my face buried in some lines And i wish that i could rewind the jumping off For the high dives In my (?) I wish i could just pull off of this high wind And come back to it Yeah this is my letter to the hood (to the hood) I wrote it to make it better understood (understood) One day I'm gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you like I should Yeah this is my letter to the hood I wrote it to make it better understood One day im gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you better like I should Yeah Yeah and I've learned Real niggas come and real niggas go But fake niggas stay cuz fake niggas know When out the hood they be shaking underload Thats when they hate it when we blow Cuz they can't make it on their own You think I'm tripping when you hating cuz i do me? Am i supposed to sit around and wait for you to use me? Keep it real nigga, that don't even sound right And anyone who thinks it does is the clown type I'm sick of living less than good stuck in poverty Theres more to life than what this hood got to offer me I'm tired of ducking feds, Tired of busting heads, Theres more to being a blood than wearing the color red Time to be a black leader of our decade And teach the youth to do more than just get paid I put the rag down and i am no more I picked my cross up dawg i love oak park Yeah this is my letter to the hood (to the hood) I wrote it to make it better understood (understood) One day I'm gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you like I should Yeah this is my letter to the hood I wrote it to make it better understood One day im gonna get it together And when I do I'll love you better like I should We talk to go back, this time, For a place to call my own, For a place that I call home. We talk to go back, this time, For a place to call my own, For a place that I call home.