K-Rino, Andrea Maria - Hood Politics lyrics

Wow, it’s gettin’ real crazy out here
Everywhere we look we see crime
Poverty, drug-sellin’ and drug-usin’
 prostitution, homelessness
We caught up in some true hood politics

Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Who orchestrates these hood politics?

How long will we continue to
Live in this condition?
Most of us are livin' in a
Place where love is missin'
Negligence and dependin' on
Government assistance
Wishin' for a lick that we can hit
It’s nothing different
Hard to get some money so you
Almost out of luck now
Had to pull a stunt and got a felony
You stuck now did some time in prison
It was rough when you got busted
Couldn’t find no work when you got out
Went back to hustlin'
You was still on paper so right
Back in jail you landed
You followed the formula exactly
How they planned it
Locked you in a cell and then
They held you like a hostage
‘cause prison is a industry and
Niggas are the profit
Actin' like they care but secretly
We gettin’ laughed at
How did our hood get tore up?
We don’t even ask that
Lookin' for a way to make
People open their eyes up
Others makin' laws to guarantee
We never rise up

Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c'mon
Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Who orchestrates these hood politics?

We be buyin' when we can’t even afford it
Money runnin' through our hands but
Somehow we the poorest
Consumin' and not dealin'
The cycle’s never-endin'
Not focused on businesses or land
Too busy spendin' how did we become this
Unproductive is the question
Tennis shoes and jewelry more
Important than investin’
Took your human rights away
Run in your house and blast you
Now we out here beggin’ for
Somethin’ that should be natural
We don’t own no property so
Gradually they come slow
Buyin' up the hood and
Buildin' high-rises and condos
You’ve been out here all your life but
This is not your own crib
Too expensive for your ass to stay
So where you gon’ live?
Everywhere we seem to look it
Ain’t nothin' but bad news
Every corner, every block
They poison us with fast food
Always in a bad mood
Hate and pressure runs us
That’s why we on dope and every
Night we hearin’ guns bust

Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c'mon
Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Who orchestrates these hood politics?

Politicians seeking office off
Of selfish reasons
They only come around the hood
When it’s election season
Show up at your church looking
For votes because they leeching
Soon as they get in
They disappear and you can’t reach ‘em
They legislating every law
They make this like a trap though
Black ones sell us off for higher
Status on some cash flow
Rewired, I think it’s so that wrong
Is made to feel right
Silly videos that take our focus
Off of real life broke our manhood
Now they shoot us and arrest us
Living off our women
Now our women don’t respect us
No one to protect us, ain’t no hope around me
How can he feed his family when
He locked up in the county?
Baby mama, baby daddy fightin’ on a daily
Prescription drugs got the people
Out here going crazy
Purposely they keep us broke
And always under stress, man
All because they treating us like
Pieces in a chess game

Just because they smile and laughin'
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Hey trill, sing it with me, baby, c'mon
Just because they smile and laughing
When they passin’ through what’s up?
It don’t mean that they won’t kill you
Who created hood politics?
Who orchestrates these hood politics?