Hood Diet (Clean)

Lyrics

Loer Velocity ft. Donnan Links - "Hood Diet" [Emcee(s): Donnan Links and Loer Velocity] [Producer(s): Donnan Links] [Intro: Sample from Season 6 Episode 17 of Good Times (1974-1979) - "Where Have All the Doctor's Gone?"] Dr. Kelly: Good health is priceless. It's no wonder so many black people are suffering from high blood pressure. You people are killing yourselves gobbling down fatback, ham hocks, pigs' feet Florid Evans: You may not know it, but there's been a shortage of caviar in the ghetto. We buy what is cheapest. Now you may be talking health, but, in this neighborhood, we're talking survival [Verse 1: Donnan Links] Aight. The new Millennium came. I stopped touching beef So when I step off the C at Franklin and Fulton Street I'm still a starving artist, so, regardless I got to partake if there's only bullshit to eat Steamed salmon sound fly. This Japanese Spot [?] I went to Crown Fried 'Cause, for around five, I'll get the special Chicken sandwich, cream soda, and a mound of fries And my stomach didn't want it. There's healthier Places, but where I stay is always too far from it I'm burning up my ones eating out, but these hood Grocery stores switching up dates, selling meats they should have Sold before. And, Chinese takeout, it's hard To make me eat. Three dollars for a whole chicken that's Grade B meat. [?] [?] greasy but cheap We're targeted to make this food move. The Golden Arches want their employees rocking Sean John and FUBU It's like this imitation food was meant for we On the lighter side of things, I couldn't find a Kennedy's But in the blocks and liquor stores and churches Fast food's a waste of time. Bad service and an Extended wait in line. The male seems lifeless Yesterday's food at next week's prices [Hook: Donnan Links and Loer Velocity] It's The hood Diet (You can't but be on it). I know it look Good, but don't Try it ('Cause it's sweeping the projects). You'll get Lots of headaches, upset stomach, and High cholesterol. You might vomit on a Hood Diet (Did you) (Die yet? Die yet? Die yet? Die yet?) (Die yet?) [Verse 2: Loer Velocity] Hot peas and butter cholesterol-smothered Ten-percent juices artificially colored Monday, Wednesday, and Friday night takeout The neighborhood McDonald's is the poor man's steakhouse Chicken Fried Crown just a few doors down and give Your small intestinal lining a frown I've been there before and I'll probably go again 'cause It's right here in the hood—choices are few and slim Bullshit by the busload. Children bought a bunch Parks and recreation, freedom note fills lunch Between Entenmann berry snacks and Little Debbies I'm only eating veggies in my Chinese food, and there's One on every corner, so I'm filling my quota MSG, fried food, and grape soda I'm killing me with this shit and, what's worse, I'll buy it Living off this so-high-blood-pressure diet Just can't be right. White Castle's is champ tonight Beating on my insides like it was Samsonite Survival. I'm liable to catch some ulcers Sipping on these Tropical Fantasy Mimosas A fabulously ghetto shortage of nutrition On my block, the farmers' markets missing They don't come up in the hood and that shit's deaded That's why I be racking up this corner store credit [Hook (Overlapped with Outro): Donnan Links and Loer Velocity] It's The hood Diet (You can't but be on it). I know it look Good, but don't Try it ('Cause it's sweeping the projects). You'll get Lots of headaches, upset stomach, and High cholesterol. You might vomit on a Hood Diet (Did you) (Die yet? Die yet? Die yet? Die yet?) (Die yet?) [Outro (Overlapped with Hook): Donnan Links] Yeah, we're still here. And this is a special dedication for you corner-cutting grocery stores in my hood. Nah, nah, I'ma name names. [?], Met, Key Foods, and [?]. Y'all better step your game up too. Later