[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, merits Gotta lil sister and my pops just And I came home so my freedom I really cherish Young they bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I just did that for Odds was against me, murder in the degree Made it less 'cause I gave 'em a That's the past, now a dude home tryna up his past When all niggaz kno me for is the And my minds always thinking how to some cash They know if something ever sparked cock it and blast Now I'm live straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting scraps time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my room Cried she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of hers had dat, never!!! But with all the dirt I was I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us Stead of me sellin crack She rather be ina shop right, getting together endeavors, wont allow me to get work Forced me to get On apps ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me NIGGA LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister that's Plus is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling But he don't with the bills and I'm back on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to hammer that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm em, only nigga on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And two chicks a month that mom get don't last Lil Sally still young she fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a hell of a Then it clicked me, plain close, cops to get me But knew I had mine on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, they had a warrant They knew it all they said they had an informant I'm in this caged up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm in this eight by twelve See I to live right But society ain't made for niggaz to right just write Mommy make sure Sally keep her tight And I'll be home soon, don't cry, it's iight
I know it might seem it's all good But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
as Sally] My names Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not Dad away, moms remarried I gotta big bro, but in jail Moms said for some things that he to sell And I'm always step-dad, his names Beau And some things about him that my mom don't kno And he if I tell that it won't be pretty And I'm really scared of em, he's hit me He touches me places I like it And I ain't talking a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me places private And he don't just touch he put summin it He says the more he that, I'll start to like it Hand over my so I'm quiet Moms only wit 'em our money is low I'm but I'm shaped like a twenty year old And my moms in so she makes excuses But she looks at me and sees and bruises Why step daddy take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting I cant do this understands I'm weary Get goosebumps anytime a man come me Know how it feel to a man use you for a cushion All the moaning and pushin You try to push him, he's bothered You yell and you scream but he starts going Trust me, summin you don't wanna be apart of even when it's over, your life, it'll scare ya Visit my bro, he can I'm sad hard at my stomach he can tell I'm fat He can I'm mad But daddy touched me, fucked me, you think that I can tell him that? Beau called the cops on him, could I him that? Yep, thought you'd so I keep it all to me on the way, and I'm not working And I kno his cause I used to be a virgin Derrick says handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what it's for years And it falls on def Damn mommy please come home, please mommy don't leave us Some are hard to keep Some secrets make it to sleep And sleep is the only time I safe the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step daddy on me
I know it might seem like it's all But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what it's like in the (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta named Pam that I live with But she's in church, real religious I son he was young he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a week before Three shots close range a handgun I knew before I met Pam it was Pam's son I knew when I pulled the Mill out And went on a manhunt just to kill father Derrick and my boy hadda friend put me on doing what I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming home now, and he's get it And I kno be lookin for me with a biscuit Not hard to find, got teks in handy, and I'm in his having sex with him family I got his mom on the bed and the And I'm with his sister her candy Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you can't hide nothing ina so small But then it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta humped on Sally, Pam's in church Derrick bust in, just froze White on his nose, Sally getting her clothes Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's packin but Sally gaspin her stomach, I guess she started having contractions Beau grabbed his, now they both got Just gunnin, ignoring the seed that's coming Now in the crossfire, screams out stop in the wall, now the scenes getting hott Next 30 seconds on the scene is the tape up, now the scenes getting blocked Barricades up, yep, you already kno Ambulance there, streets full of cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all calmed down Beau comes out, hands showing, carrying his Derrick comes down, little Sally in his Yep, nuttin to say, she was hit by a Nope! Shots ric-o-shade, cops take him away And now niggaz miss em But it the guns that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we gonna learn to our people sacred Theres some type of way kid, all related When we gonna and get rid of the hatred 'cause this shit happens on a basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit happens everyday
I know it seem like it's all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what it's in the hood (repeat)