[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from right there on Merrick of honesty, loyalty, good merits Gotta lil and my pops just perished And I just came so my freedom I really cherish Young when bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I just did for manslaughter Odds was against me, murder in the second Made it less 'cause I gave 'em a That's the past, now a home tryna clean up his past all niggaz kno me for is the past And my minds always how to pocket some cash They know if something sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm tryna straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting scraps Long time ago, when I home she was cleaning my room when she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of woulda had dat, never!!! But with all the I was doing I like I hadda protect her, I hadda protect us Stead of me sellin forever She be ina shop right, getting bags together Passing endeavors, allow me to get work me to get work On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes you'll me NIGGA LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister nine Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I she feeling But he help with the bills and I'm back on the script So we go broke, I'm back to this 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 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, close, cops came to get me But knew I had mine on threaten to hit me And I swiftly, said they had a warrant knew about it all they said they 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 to live right But society ain't made for niggaz to right Mommy just Mommy make Sally keep her shit tight And be home real soon, don't cry, it's iight
I know it might seem it's all good But this is what it's like in the I rep my set you should But is what it's 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 he's in Moms said for some things that he to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his Beau And theres some things about him that my mom kno And he says if I tell that it be pretty 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 places that's And he just touch he put summin inside it He says the he does that, I'll start to like it Hand my mouth so I'm quiet Moms 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 sees scrapes and Why daddy gotta take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting raped I do this Nobody I'm weary Get goosebumps anytime a man near me Know how it to have a man use you for a cushion All the moaning and pushin You try to push him, he's getting You yell and you scream but he going harder Trust me, it's you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even when 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 step daddy touched me, fucked me, you think that I can him that? Beau called the on him, could I tell him that? Yep, thought agree so I keep it all to me Baby on the way, and I'm not And I kno it's his cause I used to be a Derrick he'll handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what it's like for And it falls on def Damn mommy come home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are hard to Some secrets it hard to sleep And sleep is the only I feel safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step on me
I know it might like it's all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what it's in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live But she's in church, real religious I hadda son he was young he was Til a nigga killed him a before Christmas Three shots close range a handgun I before I met Pam that it was Pam's son I knew when I pulled the Mill out And went on a manhunt just to kill they Derrick and my boy hadda friend That put me on doing what I gotta do for Derricks home now, and he's gonna get it And I kno he'll be lookin for me with a Not hard to find, got them 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 prolly told em, and you can't hide nothing ina hood so But then it Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just humped on Sally, in church Derrick bust in, Beau 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 packin but starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she started contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, both 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 is the cops Yellow tape up, now the scenes blocked Barricades up, yep, you already kno Ambulance there, streets full of patrol Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all down somehow comes out, hands showing, carrying his arms Derrick down, little Sally in his arms Yep, nuttin to say, she was hit by a Nope! Shots ric-o-shade, cops take him away And now some niggaz em But it wasn't the guns that killed Sally, nah it was the niggaz wit em When we learn to treat our people sacred Theres type of way kid, we're all related we gonna 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 kidd
I know it might seem like all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what it's like in the (repeat)