seriously...who describes the hood better than jigga?...the first verse is the hood!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0iOvCu_BIeY
"i'm from a place where the hood could swallow em
and bullets could hobble em
and there's soo much coke that you could run a slalom
the cops comb the shit top to bottom
they say that we are prone to violence
but its home sweet home
where personalties clash and chrome meets chrome
coke prices up and down like its wallstreet holmes
but this shit is worse than the dow jones
your brains is now blown, allover my brown room
welcome to hell, where you are welcomed to sell
but when them shells come you better return em
all scars we earn em, all cars we learn em
like the back of our hands
we watch for cops hoppin out the back of vans
i wear a G on my chest i don't need no badan"...jay z