HOOD LOVE NOBODY

peace.

I'VE BEEN REPPING BED STUY (DO OR DIE) FOR THE LONGEST. MY HOOD. I LOVE IT. THE SAME HOOD WHERE YOUNG JOHN FROM BREVOORT GREW UP TO BE FABOLOUS, THE SAME HOOD THAT REARED THE NOTORIOUS B. I. G. (RIP) HOVA, THE RAP GOD, AKA JAY Z CAME FROM MARCY PROJECTS IN THE STUY.

ITS ALSO THE SAME HOOD WHERE A YOUNG UP AND COMING RAPPER BY THE NAME OF CEVLAR, HUNG OUT AT. HE WAS GUNNED DOWN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ON FULTON STREET, RIGHT IN FRONT OF FISH AND CRUSTACEANS SEA FOOD SPOT...NO BODY SAW NUTHIN!!!

AND DAYS LATER, AT HIS MEMORIAL, IN THIS HOOD...A YOUNG MOTHER LOST HER LIFE FROM SHOTS FROM AN IGNORANT NIGGA'S GUN!!! I KNEW THE YOUNG LADY IN PASSING, "HI" AND "BYE". BUT SHE WAS A MOTHER. A MOTHER OF 3. SUMBODY GIRL, SUMBODY COUSIN, SUMBODY AUNT, SUMBODY DAUGHTER. WHATS DISGUSTING IS THAT THE EXTEME POLICE PRESENCE IN THE HOOD. WUTS ALSO DISGUSTING IS THAT 'CRIMESTOPPERS' IS IN THE HOOD LOOKING FOR ANSWERS AND NOBODY KNOW NUTHIN!!! NOBODY KNOW NUTHIN?!!! SHE WASNT THE ONLY ONE OUT THERE BEFORE THE GUNS STARTED BUSSIN. WHETHER U HIDING UNDER A CAR, OR UNDER A BENCH, SUMBODY KNOW WHO WAS BUSSIN THEY GUN!!! THIS WHOLE 'DON'T SNITCH' CODE IS RIDICULOUS.

WUT IF IT WAS UR MOTHER, SISTER, COUSIN, AUNT OR DAUGHTER...U WOULD WANT ANSWERS!
I TELL YOU. I LOVE MY HOOD, BUT THERES A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE. YA DIG?
ALOT OF SUCCESSFUL FOLK CAME FROM THE HOOD, AND GOT OUT, ONLY TO BE CRITISIZED BY PEOPLE WHO WEREN'T SO LUCKY. THEN THERES SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE WHO REFUSE TO LEAVE THE HOOD. THE HOOD ONLY BREEDS IGNORANCE AND HATE. THESE PAST HAPPENINGS HAVE SHOWED THAT TO ME. SO WHEN MY VENTURES POP OFF...ME AND DA FAM ARE OUT. AINT NUTHIN WRONG WIT THE HOOD. IF U WANNA STAY THE REST OF UR LIFE...JUST KNOW, ITS OK TO LOVE THE HOOD, BUT THE HOOD DONT LOVE NOBODY!!!

REAL TALK

R.I.P. LEVAL LYDE (CEVLAR)
R.I.P. NANCY WILLIAMS