[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, good Gotta lil and my pops just perished And I just came home so my I really cherish Young they bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was against me, murder in the second Made it 'cause I gave 'em a plea That's the past, now a dude tryna clean up his past all niggaz kno me for is the past And my minds always how to pocket some cash They if something ever sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm tryna straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she scraps together time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my room Cried when she a gat in the dresser no child of hers woulda had dat, never!!! But all the dirt I was doing I felt I hadda protect her, I hadda protect us of me sellin crack forever She be ina shop right, getting bags 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 DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister nine Plus is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling But he don't help the bills and I'm back on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to this that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only 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 still young she developing fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a hell of a it clicked me, plain close, cops came to get me But knew that I had on threaten to hit me And I swiftly, said they had a warrant They knew about it all they 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 to live right But society ain't for niggaz to live right just write Mommy make sure keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, iight
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)
as Sally] My Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, moms I big bro, but he's in jail Moms for some things that he used to sell And I'm with step-dad, his names Beau And some things about him that my mom don't kno And he says if I tell that it won't be And I'm really of em, he's already hit me He touches me places I like it And I ain't bout 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, I'll start to 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 year old And my moms in so she makes excuses But she at me and sees scrapes and bruises Why step daddy gotta take me this Help, somebody, I'm getting raped I cant do Nobody understands I'm Get goosebumps a man come near 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 Trust me, it's you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even when it's over, your life, scare ya Visit my bro, he can I'm sad Staring hard at my stomach he can 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 to be a virgin says he'll handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what like for years And it on def ears Damn please come home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are hard to Some secrets make it to sleep And sleep is the only time I safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma up with step daddy on me
I know it might seem like all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set you should But is what it's like in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live But always in church, real religious I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a before Christmas Three shots close with a handgun I before I met Pam that it was Pam's son I knew when I the Mill out harder And went on a just to kill they father and my boy hadda mutual friend That put me on what I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming now, and he's 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 house having sex 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 told em, and you can't hide nothing ina hood so small But it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just humped on Sally, Pam's in bust in, Beau just froze White shit on his nose, Sally getting her Screams, "Get ready for funeral Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause packin but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I she started having contractions Beau grabbed his, now they got heat Just gunnin, ignoring the seed that's coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, screams out Holes in the wall, now the scenes hott Next 30 seconds on the scene is the Yellow tape up, now the scenes blocked up, yep, you already kno y'all Ambulance there, streets of patrol cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all down somehow Beau comes out, showing, carrying his arms Derrick comes down, Sally in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, 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 treat our sacred some type of way kid, we're all related When we grow and get rid of the hatred 'cause this shit happens on a regular basis, shit happens on a regular basis type of shit happens everyday kidd
I know it might seem like it's all But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set like you But is what it's like in the hood (repeat)