[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from right there on Merrick of honesty, loyalty, good merits Gotta lil sister and my pops perished And I just home so my freedom I really cherish when they bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I just did for manslaughter was against me, murder in the second degree Made it less I gave 'em a plea That's the past, now a dude home 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 ever sparked cock it and blast Now I'm tryna straight and get my act together But my struggling, she putting scraps together Long time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my Cried she found a gat in the dresser Said no of hers woulda had dat, never!!! But all the dirt I was doing I felt like I protect her, I hadda protect us Stead of me sellin crack She rather be ina shop right, bags together 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 gotta lil sister nine Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I think she But he don't help with the bills and I'm back on the So we don't go broke, I'm to this hammer that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only on the Ave. with coke man in the house, I gotta bring in cash And those two a month that mom get don't last Lil Sally still 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 moved swiftly, said had a warrant They knew it all they said they had an informant I'm back in caged up cell the apes in jail, now I'm back in this eight by twelve See I tried to live But society ain't for niggaz to live right Mommy just Mommy make Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, it's
I know it might seem like all good But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what like in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not Dad pasted away, moms I gotta big bro, but in jail Moms said for some things that he used to And I'm with step-dad, his names Beau And theres some 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, already 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 don't just touch he put inside it He says the he does that, I'll start to like it Hand over my mouth so I'm Moms wit 'em 'cause our money is low I'm but I'm shaped like a twenty year old And my moms in so she makes excuses But she looks at me and scrapes and bruises Why daddy gotta take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm raped I cant do this understands I'm weary Get anytime a man come near me Know how it feel to have a man use you for a All the while moaning and You try to him, he's getting bothered You yell and you scream but he starts going Trust me, it's you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even when it's over, your life, scare ya my bro, he can tell I'm sad Staring hard at my he can tell I'm fat He can I'm mad But step daddy touched me, fucked me, you think that I can tell him Beau called the on him, could I tell him that? Yep, you'd agree so I keep it all to me on the way, and I'm not working And I kno his cause I used to be a virgin Derrick says he'll handle it, my tears He know, this is what it's like for years And it on def ears Damn mommy please come home, please mommy leave us alone secrets are hard to keep Some secrets it hard to sleep 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 might seem like it's all But this is what it's like in the I rep my set you should But this is what it's like in the (repeat)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was young he was Til a nigga killed him a before Christmas Three close range with a handgun I knew before I met Pam that it was son I knew I pulled the Mill out harder And went on a manhunt to kill they father Derrick and my boy hadda friend That put me on what I gotta do for revenge coming home now, and he's gonna get it And I kno he'll be for me with a biscuit Not to find, got them teks in handy, and I'm in his house having sex with him I got his mom on the bed and the And I'm his sister molesting her candy Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you can't nothing ina hood so small But it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just on Sally, Pam's in church bust in, Beau just froze White on his nose, Sally getting her clothes Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And then he 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, both ignoring the seed coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, out stop Holes in the wall, now the scenes getting 30 seconds on the scene is the cops Yellow tape up, now the scenes blocked Barricades up, yep, you already kno there, streets full 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, nuttin to say, she was hit by a Nope! done 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 dumb wit em When we gonna learn to treat our people Theres type of way kid, we're all related When we gonna grow and get rid of the 'cause this shit happens on a regular basis, this shit happens on a 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 like you But this is it's like in the hood (repeat)