No Love In The Hood (Intro)

Thank you, thank you, thank you Y'all far too kind Can I do a poem for y'all Welcome to No Love In The Hood She loves me, she loves me not You know if it wasn't for you I wouldn't be the man I am today Raised in this concrete jungle where wolves and lions play My dad always taught me that a good woman will enable a better way But before there's a better way there needs to be a better you So what do you choose? What did I choose? Nothing but liquor stores and cash checking places Where ignorance breeds violence we need balance homeostasis Unjustified court room verdicts mass incarceration closed cases Where niggas die everyday like their families deserve to urn those vases See I pray for us and I pray for life Cause you never know a casket price until you need a casket price They say stay in school until you can't afford the education They taught me to solve for X without reality in the equation I hope I'm not coming off too embracive cause I always got love for you But sometimes I feel that same love is for misguided fools So I question why am I different? 'Cause when death comes knocking at my door it won't matter my position See I never want my future kids to see what I had to see But at the same time I want them to acknowledge you for that grit and tenacity The double edge sword of repping you is a costly slice But if they get to keep their lives let it be me caught up in your vice See like, we gripping tools just to chase the cool I remember when leaving you was the thing to do But when you finally leave you start spreading rumors boo How I'm too good for you and I switched sides up like a rubix's cube See it's never that So forgive me I wanted better and you asking why I still got homies moving that white girl like a black lives matter ally The nerve of these niggas talking I don't get the struggle Like I wasn't there for all those counter productive huddles I show them better way in return I'm getting nothing but rebuttals But I'm blame you for the fake love you giving them you got them cuddled With an ideology and a mentality that breeds death Where the cops and paramedics the play role of the refs I want to show them the world but they rather euro step into early grave But be brave What do you chose? I can only pray they see the vision cause with wisdom comes age 'Cause even if I try to make you better you pull me into your toxic ways You took Nip from us You took Dolph from us You took Pop us You took L You took Proof We've grown so numb to empathizing with sleepless nights So many names please don't forget the ones without the limelight When is enough a enough when will it ever end Then I realized the hardest truth that I inked from my pen Something I wished I would've known in my adolescence The difference between to understand vs the difference of acceptance You don't want to change. You don't want to get the message So it seems ones man's success is another man's death sentence See Wu Tang told me along time ago to protect my neck and I did Out the belly of the beast I live And I rise up to say this If it's by your hands know in my heart there's no tension If it's a cop please let him face more then suspension There's no rules to loving you that they'll never understand but it's all good Cause I've accepted the fact that there's No Love In The Hood