The Hood Comes First (LP Version) Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G]

[Verse 1]
The hood no matter bad
or [G]worse comes first
The hood no matter bad
or worse comes first
[G]The hood no matter bad[G]
or worse comes first
The [G]hood no matter bad
or worse comes first

[Verse 2]
If you ain't knew me,
you don't know me
[G]You could be a sign I couldn't show me
Your girl thinks I'm a [G]nose,
so she blows me
Praise the [G]pattern,
please pardon all that's hard
Overnight,
[G]we about to get blown like farting
There's lots of thick blonde broads,
big strong cores
Tricks on board and lots
of quick- tongued frauds
A lot are sitting on my [G]tip like foreskin

[Verse 3]
[G]Rap
pin' quicker more often,
and bringing 'em more [G]friends or orphans
To a style they own, flow they could own,
so they creep the clone and get [G]the bone
Since I'm the [G]leader of the jump
They should've called
me Captain Kangaroo
If I anger you, here's a finger to
Put it somewhere [G]warm and tight
Leave it in all night,
now you don't rhyme or walk right
I hate the way that some bring things
So when I see 'em, I'ma [G]up
and kick 'em in the ding- ding

[Verse 4]
The hood no matter [B]bad or
worse comes first
The hood no matter bad or worse
comes first
The hood no matter bad
or worse comes first
The hood no matter bad
or worse comes first

[Verse 5]
I'ma put 'em in the bomb,
just to show 'em they can blow up
Hope the fools show up, I'ma
[G]brag when I grow up
There's no luck and a quick [G]fast buck when I'm
[G]rollin' up with the shim- sham [G]strut
This is the way we roll, we stole
I heard the running man ran,
now [G]you running out of fans
I jam jam with Mike the Man
[G]To watch your mouth sell hand,
hip- hop with heavy ready the expand

[Verse 6]
We never sell out, the only way [G]we
sold out
We sell out, the shows and
we yell out "Hoo!"
And if you ain't know
We shaking ankles, elbows,
and any [G]dancers on the floor

[Verse 7]
Hearing there's a horny girl back
Getting back at [G]rap, screaming
she's momma the mack
Licking [G]cracks for tracks
There's only one queen,
Latifah, that's that
Ya days when I was [G]bitching and
the other 20 on your back
Now you wonder why you
got jacked
'Cause if you diss one member of the Flavor,
the whole Unit's coming back
Remember [G]that, or get trapped
[G]By the pack in black, [G]so hide ya gat

[Verse 8]
The [G#m]hood no matter bad or worse
comes first
The hood no matter [B]bad or
[G#m]worse comes first
The hood no matter [B]bad or
[G#m]worse comes first
The hood no matter [B]bad or [G#m]worse
comes first

[Verse 9]
KayGee's cutting [G#m]spots,
headbutt crooked cops
[G]The hood's [G#m]hot, bustin' props
Couldn't pop the cop
with a sling[G]shot
You played post and boast,
we came to roast
Are we even? If you're [G]still breathing,
we ain't even close
[G]I.O.U., we drop the 'O',
drop your whole sugar- free flow
You wanna write a diss,
you shoulda made it so we never know
Now we do, now you're through,

[Verse 10]
the Flavor Crew is after you
To Iron Mike and Slick Rick,
slip the Naughty [G]names on the list
And leave room for a 90- man clique
We saw the Rodney King thing
and snapped
We shoulda left our homes alone and went to
[G]paint the White House black
[Abm]If radio can'[G]t flow 'cause[Abm]
there's no goody- good verse
Tell 'em the hoody- hood comes

[Outro 1]
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