[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm Queens right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, merits Gotta lil sister and my just perished And I came home so my freedom I really cherish Young when they me, seven in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was me, murder in the second degree 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 always thinking how to pocket some cash They know if ever sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm tryna live straight and get my act But my moms struggling, she scraps together Long time ago, when I home she was cleaning my room Cried she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of hers had dat, never!!! But all the dirt I was doing 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, allow me to get work Forced me to get On apps they ask if you 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 with the and I'm back on the script So we don't go broke, I'm to this hammer that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, nigga on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I bring in cash And those two chicks a month mom get don't last Lil Sally young she developing fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a of a task Then it me, plain close, cops came to get me But knew that I had on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, said had a warrant They knew about it all they they had an informant I'm back in caged up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm back in eight by twelve See I tried to right But ain't made for niggaz to live right Mommy just Mommy make sure Sally keep her 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 it's in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
as Sally] My names Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not Dad pasted away, remarried I gotta big bro, but in jail Moms said for some things that he used to And I'm always step-dad, his names Beau And theres some things about him 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 me places I don't like it And I talking bout a hug or goodbye kiss I touch me places that's private And he don't 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 but I'm shaped like a twenty year old And my moms in love so she excuses But she at me and sees scrapes and bruises Why step daddy gotta 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 feel to have a man use you for a All the moaning and pushin You try to him, he's getting bothered You yell and you scream but he starts harder Trust me, it's summin you don't wanna be of 'cause even when it's over, your life, scare 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 daddy touched me, fucked me, you think I can tell him that? Beau the cops on him, could I tell him that? Yep, you'd agree so I keep it all to me Baby on the way, and I'm not And I kno his cause I used to be a virgin Derrick he'll handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is it's like for years And it on def ears Damn mommy please home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some are hard to keep secrets make it hard to sleep And sleep is the time 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 like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is it's like in the hood (repeat)
as Beau] My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam I live with But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga him a week before Christmas Three close range with a handgun I knew before I met Pam it was Pam's son I when I pulled the Mill out harder And on a manhunt just to kill they father Derrick and my boy hadda friend That put me on doing I gotta do for revenge 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 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 with his molesting her candy Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you can't hide nothing ina so small But then it came Sunday, ain't hafta work Just humped on Sally, Pam's in bust in, Beau just froze White shit on his nose, Sally her clothes Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I she started having contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the seed coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, out stop Holes in the wall, now the scenes getting Next 30 on the scene is the cops tape up, now the scenes getting blocked Barricades up, yep, you kno y'all Ambulance there, streets of patrol cars on the mega phone, "come down now" But it all calmed down Beau comes out, hands showing, his arms Derrick down, little Sally in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops take him And now some miss em But it wasn't the guns that killed Sally, nah it was the niggaz wit em When we gonna learn to treat our sacred Theres some type of way kid, all related 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 what it's like in the I rep my set like you But this is what it's like in the (repeat)