Blown Away - Akon, Styles P

Ah-hah!

Upfront, let’s go

Konvict, haha

We in too deep to turn back now, D (Sure is)

Watch yourself 'fore you get (Watch it)

Blown away

You know where I come from

The place where your fade is a mic or a bull or dum-dum

A jail cell, a pine box, and brothers are dumb young

Still bust a gun for the slum that they come from

Cops is the only ones they gon' run from

They puttin' they hood up

But 9 out of 10 of us ain’t got good luck

You gon' ride on a man and catch 25

Or get hit and get sent to the other side

You lose both sides of the coin

So me, I play the hood, baby, 9 in the groin

Momma got a little church I could join, but I ain’t go yet

Man got a mosque I could join, but I ain’t go yet

Cool with the devil on my back, I’m in cold sweats

About to do some dirt in some dirty black old sweats

If you known, you should’ve shown the way

Most the hood on the path to get blown away

'Cause I was raised up to show no fear

Cowardly hearts’ll never last long here

If you ain’t man up to make shit clear

Guaranteed you’ll get blown away

'Cause I done seen the block break down tears

And I done seen the cops break my peers

Tryna hold on a couple more years

Tryin' not to get blown away

See, I ain’t never shot nobody, but I’m known for fighting

So when I strike, man, you think you been struck by lightning

Shouldn’t have to prove myself by killin' a nigga

Even a child can take a life by pullin' a trigger

Retaliation only takes anger mixed with passion

See your target in the distance and keep on blastin'

They say, «Guns don’t kill people, people do»

So when you hit, man, you feel that shit them evils do

Can’t see myself gettin' beat down, my eyes swollen

Moms crying, really don’t know what happened, my pride’s stolen

If I ain’t got my heat, then I got a blade

That can get you off me in so many ways

'Cause I was raised up to show no fear

Cowardly hearts’ll never last long here

If you ain’t man up to make shit clear

Guaranteed you’ll get blown away

'Cause I done seen the block break down tears

And I done seen the cops break my peers

Tryna hold on a couple more years

Tryin' not to get blown away

I keep my eye out for Jakes, ears to the streets

Other eye out for snakes and these scandalous freaks

If we ain’t on good terms, don’t bother to speak

Don’t smile and try to spark a convo with me

Same thing make you laugh will make you cry

Fuck around and let this quiet nigga here take your life

Hate for it to be you the world sacrifice

So somebody else could travel through the tunnel of life

'Cause I’m that type of guy

I’ll be there when you’re ridin', but I stay to myself

So if you see me out there with a bear and we fightin'

Nigga, then go help the bear

'Cause I was raised up to show no fear

Cowardly hearts’ll never last long here

If you ain’t man up to make shit clear

Guaranteed you’ll get blown away

'Cause I done seen the block break down tears

And I done seen the cops break my peers

Tryna hold on a couple more years

Tryin' not to get blown away