[Verse 1]
In the hood you get props if you shot somebody
If you got shot, everybody thinks you tight
Lives being taken fast like a Maserati
How we give a thug props coz he takes a life?
If you get locked, then you get stripes for doing some time
Get praised like Christ for doing the crime
Wrote this song at night with you on my mind
Do anything in life coz you wanna shine
I know we living in America where we got everything that we need
But yet we still don't know
About anything or why we exist
So we keep popping Crys tryna chase that dough
Yeah it's true and we love to party
All the ladies tryna make their figures look like Barbies
All alone while we dying inside
Coz we spiritually blind and we don't hear the Lord calling

[Verse 2]
They don't want truth so they can't see error
They ain't come up in the C.C. era
Wanna see Ciara on a PC era
Like they get trapped in the B.C. era
See error, they don't see Pharaoh
Holding his whips, might seem narrow
Can't see the devil man blowing them a kiss
Give 'em what they want but ain't showing them the risk
Showing them the ice, showing them the wrist
Showing them the life but ain't showing them the rest
Rest like a little bit of sleep
They shop the mall in the middle of the week
Walk out with bags like a little bit of sleep
Work Wednesday like the middle of the week
Drummer plays just to get 'em on their feet
And they step to the-step to the rhythm of the beat
[Verse 3]
In the hood you get props if you popping work
And if you try to work some cats think you soft
Say you gotta have heat when you walk the block
Coz on the streets you never know what's popping off
But that's the way we make it, we slaves to all that
We gots to fall back and think about life
Coz it's precious and it's sacred
A gift from Christ that we can't get twice
Yeah I know that we chase the riches
We must admit this, it adds significance
Or at least we think it does
And when it fails, we inhale and drink it up
So we drown in our own depression
And keep suppressing the truth that we know
Of the fact that God exists
And we dismiss the question of where will we go when we die?