[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from Queens right there on of honesty, loyalty, good merits Gotta lil and my pops just perished 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 was against me, murder in the second degree Made it less 'cause I gave 'em a That's the past, now a dude tryna clean up his past When all niggaz kno me for is the And my minds always thinking how to pocket some know if something ever sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm tryna live and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting together Long time ago, I wasn't home she was cleaning my room when she found a gat in the dresser Said no of hers woulda had dat, never!!! But with all the I was doing I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us Stead of me crack forever She rather be ina shop right, getting together endeavors, wont allow me to get work Forced me to get On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, if I say yes you'll hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil that's nine Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I she feeling But he don't help with the 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 killin em, only on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I gotta in cash And those two a month that mom get don't last Lil Sally young she developing fast Oh, you thinking the 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 swiftly, said they had a warrant They knew it all they said they had an informant I'm back in caged up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm back in this by twelve See I to live right But society ain't made for to live right Mommy just make sure Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, cry, it's iight
I it might seem like it's all good 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 names Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not Dad away, moms remarried I gotta big bro, but he's in Moms said for some things that he to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his names And some things about him that my mom don't kno And he says if I that it won't be pretty And I'm really scared of em, he's hit me He me places I don't like it And I ain't talking a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me that's private And he don't just he put summin inside it He says the more he does that, start to like it Hand over my mouth so I'm only wit 'em 'cause our money is low I'm sixteen but I'm shaped like a year old And my moms in love so she excuses But she looks at me and sees and bruises Why step daddy gotta take me this Help, somebody, I'm getting I cant do this Nobody I'm weary Get goosebumps a man come near me Know how it to have 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 Trust me, summin you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even it's over, your life, it'll scare ya my bro, he can tell I'm sad Staring hard at my stomach he can I'm fat He can I'm mad But step daddy touched me, me, you think that I can tell him that? Beau called the on him, could I tell him that? Yep, thought you'd agree so I it all to me on the way, and I'm not working And I kno it's his I used to be a virgin Derrick says he'll handle it, my tears He don't know, this is what it's like for And it falls on def Damn mommy please come home, mommy don't leave us alone Some are hard to keep Some make it hard to sleep And sleep is the time I feel safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno 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 like you But is what it's like in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam I live with But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was young he was Til a nigga killed him a week Christmas Three shots close 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 they father Derrick and my boy hadda friend That put me on what I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming home now, and gonna get it And I kno he'll be lookin for me a biscuit Not to find, got them 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 molesting her Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you hide nothing ina hood so small But it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just on Sally, Pam's in church Derrick in, Beau just froze White shit on his nose, Sally getting her Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she started having grabbed his, now they both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the seed coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, screams out Holes in the wall, now the scenes getting 30 seconds on the scene is the cops Yellow up, now the scenes getting blocked Barricades up, yep, you already kno there, streets full of patrol cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all calmed somehow Beau comes out, hands showing, carrying his Derrick down, little Sally in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, take him away And now some miss em But it wasn't the guns killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we gonna learn to treat our sacred Theres some type of way kid, we're all When we grow and get rid of the hatred 'cause shit happens on a regular 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 it's like in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what it's like in the (repeat)