Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Akon
Akon
Performer
Giorgio Tuinfort
Giorgio Tuinfort
Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Giorgio Tuinfort
Giorgio Tuinfort
Songwriter
D. Styles
D. Styles
Songwriter
Aliaune Thiam
Aliaune Thiam
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Akon
Akon
Producer
Giorgio Tuinfort
Giorgio Tuinfort
Producer
Tony Terrebonne
Tony Terrebonne
Recording Engineer
Leslie Brathwaite
Leslie Brathwaite
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Yeah (Crazy)
It's one of the things, man, you gotta experience
To know what I'm talkin' about
It's where the going gets rough (Akon)
The tough stay tough (Styles P)
Upfront, let's go
We in too deep to turn back now, D (Sure is)
Watch yourself before you get blown away
[Verse 2]
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 (Young boys)
Still bust a gun for the slum that they come from (Come from)
Cops is the only ones they gon' run from (That's it)
They puttin' they hood up
But nine out of ten of us ain't got good luck (Not good luck)
I'm gon' ride on a man and catch twenty-five (Yeah) (Blown away)
Or get hit and get sent to the other side (Other side)
You lose both sides of the coin
So me, I play the hood, baby, **** in the groin
Mama 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 (Old sweats)
If you known you should've shown the way
Most the hood on the path to get blown away (Blown away)
[Verse 3]
'Cause I was raised up to show no fear
Cowardly hearts'll never last long here
If you ain't man up to make sh**** 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
[Verse 4]
See, I ain't never shot nobody, but I'm known for fighting
So when I strike, man, you think you been struck by lighting
Shouldn't have to prove myself by killin' a ****
Even a child can take a life by pullin' the 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 sh**** 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 heat, (Uh-huh) then I got a blade (Uh-huh)
That can get you off me in so many ways
[Verse 5]
'Cause I was raised up to show no fear
Cowardly hearts'll never last long here
If you ain't man up to make sh**** 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
[Verse 6]
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
****ck around and let this quiet **** here take your life
Hate for it to be you the world's 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'
****, then go help the bear
[Verse 7]
'Cause I was raised up to show no fear
Cowardly hearts'll never last long here
If you ain't man up to make sh**** 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
Written by: Aliaune Thiam, D. Styles, Giorgio Tuinfort
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