[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm Queens right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, good Gotta lil sister and my pops just And I just came so my freedom I really cherish Young when they me, seven in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was against me, murder in the degree Made it less I gave 'em a plea That's the past, now a dude home tryna clean up his When all niggaz kno me for is the And my always thinking how to pocket some cash know if something ever sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm live straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting scraps Long time ago, when I wasn't she was cleaning my room Cried she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of woulda had dat, never!!! But all the dirt I was doing I felt like I protect her, I hadda protect us Stead of me sellin forever She rather be ina shop right, getting together Passing endeavors, allow me to get work me to get work On apps ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I lil sister that's nine Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I 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 this hammer that I hafta ya kno, I'm killin em, only nigga on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I bring in cash And those two chicks a month that mom get don't Lil Sally young she developing fast Oh, you the same thing, it's a hell of a task Then it clicked me, plain close, came to get me But that I had mine on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, said they had a They knew about it all they said had an informant I'm back in this up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm back in eight by twelve See I tried to live But society made for niggaz to live right just write Mommy make Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be real soon, don't cry, it's iight
I know it might seem it's all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
as Sally] My Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, remarried I big bro, but he's in jail Moms said for some that he used to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his names And theres some things about him that my mom kno And he says if I that it won't be pretty And I'm really of em, he's already hit me He me places I don't like it And I ain't talking bout a hug or goodbye I mean touch me that's private And he don't just touch he put inside it He says the more he does that, I'll to like it over my mouth so I'm quiet Moms only wit 'em 'cause our is low I'm sixteen but I'm shaped a twenty year old And my in love so she makes excuses But she looks at me and sees scrapes and Why step daddy gotta take me this Help, somebody, I'm raped I cant do this Nobody I'm weary Get goosebumps anytime a man come me Know how it feel to a man use you for a cushion All the while and pushin You try to him, he's getting bothered You yell and you but he starts going harder me, it's summin you don't wanna be apart of 'cause when it's over, your life, it'll scare ya Visit my bro, he can I'm sad Staring at my stomach he can tell I'm fat He can I'm mad But step daddy touched me, fucked me, you think that I can him that? Beau called the cops on him, could I tell him Yep, thought you'd so I keep it all to me on the way, and I'm not working And I kno it's his cause I used to be a Derrick says he'll it, wipe my tears He don't know, is what it's like for years And it on def ears mommy please come home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are to keep Some secrets make it hard to And is the only time I feel safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step on me
I know it might seem like it's all But this is what like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what it's like in the (repeat)
[Joe as My Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live with But always in church, real religious I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a week Christmas Three shots range with a handgun I knew before I met Pam it was Pam's son I knew when I the Mill out harder And went on a manhunt just to kill they Derrick and my boy hadda mutual That put me on what I gotta do for revenge coming home now, and he's gonna 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 house sex with him family I got his mom on the bed and the And I'm his sister molesting her candy Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you hide nothing ina hood so small But then it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta Just humped on Sally, in church Derrick bust in, Beau just White on his nose, Sally getting her clothes Screams, "Get ready for your Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's packin but Sally gaspin Holdin her stomach, I she started having contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the that's coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, out stop Holes in the wall, now the getting hott 30 seconds on the scene is the cops Yellow tape up, now the scenes getting Barricades up, yep, you already kno Ambulance there, streets full of patrol Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all calmed down Beau comes out, hands showing, carrying his Derrick comes down, little in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops him away And now some niggaz em But it wasn't the guns that Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em we gonna learn to treat our people sacred Theres type of way kid, we're all related When we grow and get rid of the hatred 'cause this shit on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit everyday kidd
I it might seem like it's all good But this is what like in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what like in the hood (repeat)