[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, good Gotta lil sister and my pops perished And I just came so my freedom I really cherish Young when bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was me, murder in the second degree it less 'cause I gave 'em a plea That's the past, now a dude tryna clean up his past When all kno me for is the past And my minds always thinking how to pocket cash They know if something ever sparked cock it and blast Now I'm tryna live and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting together Long time ago, when I wasn't she was cleaning my room Cried she found a gat in the dresser no child of hers woulda had dat, never!!! But with all the dirt I was I felt like I hadda her, I hadda protect us Stead of me sellin crack She rather be ina shop right, getting bags Passing endeavors, wont allow me to get Forced me to get On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I lil sister that's nine moms is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling But he don't help with the bills and I'm on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to this hammer I hafta tote ya kno, I'm killin em, only nigga on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And those two chicks a month mom get don't last Lil Sally still young she fast Oh, you thinking the thing, it's a hell of a task Then it clicked me, plain close, came to get me But knew that I had mine on to hit me And I swiftly, said they had a warrant knew about it all they said they had an informant I'm in this caged up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm back in this by twelve See I tried to right But society ain't for niggaz to live right Mommy write Mommy sure Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, it's
I know it might seem like it's all But this is what it's like in the I rep my set like you But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Sally, and I'm Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, remarried I big bro, but he's in jail Moms said for things 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 tell that it won't be And I'm really scared of em, he's hit me He touches me places I don't it And I ain't talking a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me that's private And he just touch he put summin inside it He says the more he that, I'll start to like it Hand over my so I'm quiet only wit 'em 'cause our money is low I'm sixteen but I'm shaped like a twenty old And my moms in so she makes excuses But she looks at me and scrapes and bruises Why step daddy take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm raped I cant do this Nobody understands I'm Get goosebumps anytime a man come me Know how it feel to have a man use you for a All the while and pushin You try to push him, he's bothered You yell and you but he starts going harder Trust me, it's summin you don't wanna be of 'cause even when it's over, your life, it'll ya my bro, he can tell I'm sad Staring at my stomach he can tell I'm fat He can I'm mad But step touched me, fucked me, you think that I can tell him that? Beau the cops on him, could I tell him that? 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 I used to be a virgin Derrick says he'll it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what like for years And it falls on def Damn mommy please come home, please mommy don't us alone secrets are hard to keep Some secrets make it hard to And is the only time I feel safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno wake up with step daddy on me
I know it seem like it's all good But is what it's like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I with But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a week Christmas Three shots close with a handgun I knew before I met Pam that it was son I knew when I pulled the Mill out And went on a manhunt just to kill they and my boy hadda mutual friend That put me on doing I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming now, and he's gonna get it And I kno he'll be for me with a biscuit Not hard to find, got them in handy, and I'm in his house having sex with him 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 can't hide nothing ina hood so But then it came Sunday, Beau hafta work Just humped on Sally, in church bust in, Beau just froze White shit on his nose, getting her clothes Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's packin but starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I she started having contractions Beau his, now they both got heat Just gunnin, both the seed that's coming Now in the crossfire, screams out stop Holes in the wall, now the getting hott Next 30 seconds on the scene is the Yellow tape up, now the getting blocked Barricades up, yep, you kno y'all Ambulance there, full of patrol cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all down somehow comes out, hands showing, carrying his arms Derrick comes down, Sally in his arms Yep, nuttin to say, she was hit by a Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops take him And now some miss em But it wasn't the that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we learn to treat our people sacred Theres some type of way kid, all related When we gonna grow and get rid of the 'cause this shit on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit happens kidd
I know it might seem like it's all But this is what like in the hood I rep my set like you But is what it's like in the hood (repeat)