[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm Queens right there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, merits Gotta lil sister and my pops just And I just came home so my I really cherish Young when bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was against me, murder in the second it less '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 thinking how to pocket some cash They know if something ever sparked it'll it and blast Now I'm tryna straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting scraps time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my room Cried when she found a gat in the Said no child of woulda had dat, never!!! But all the dirt I was doing I felt like I hadda her, I hadda protect us of me sellin crack forever She rather be ina shop right, getting bags Passing endeavors, wont allow me to get Forced me to get On they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil that's nine Plus moms is chillin, wit new dude I think she feeling But he don't with the bills and I'm back on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to this hammer that I hafta Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only nigga on the Ave. coke Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And two chicks a month that mom get don't last Lil Sally still young she developing Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a hell of a Then it me, plain close, cops came to get me But knew that I had on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, they had a warrant knew about it all they said they had an informant I'm back in this caged up With the apes in jail, now I'm back in eight by twelve See I to live right But ain't made for niggaz to live right Mommy write Mommy make sure Sally keep her shit And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, 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 this is it's like in the hood (repeat)
as Sally] My Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not happy Dad away, moms remarried I big bro, but he's in jail Moms said for some that he used to sell And I'm with step-dad, his names Beau And theres some things about him that my mom kno And he says if I tell it won't be pretty 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 mean touch me places that's And he don't touch he put summin inside it He says the he does that, I'll start to like it over my mouth so I'm quiet Moms only wit 'em 'cause our is low I'm sixteen but I'm shaped 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 getting raped I cant do Nobody I'm weary 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 getting You yell and you scream but he going harder Trust me, it's summin you don't be apart of 'cause even when over, your life, it'll scare ya Visit my bro, he can 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 agree so I 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 don't know, this is it's like for years And it falls on def Damn mommy please come home, please don't leave us alone Some secrets are hard to Some secrets make it hard to And sleep is the only time I feel Still the act me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step daddy on me
I know it might seem like it's all But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set you should But this is what it's like in the (repeat)
[Joe as My Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live with But always in church, real religious I son he was young he was gifted Til a nigga him a week before Christmas Three shots close with a handgun I knew before I met Pam 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 mutual friend That put me on doing what I do for revenge coming home now, and he's gonna get it And I kno be lookin 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 with his molesting her candy Now he kno it all His friend prolly told em, and you hide nothing ina hood so small But then it came Sunday, Beau hafta work Just on Sally, Pam's in church Derrick bust in, Beau froze White on his nose, Sally getting her clothes Screams, "Get ready for funeral Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause packin but Sally starts gaspin her stomach, I guess she started having contractions Beau his, now they both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the that's coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, screams out in the wall, now the scenes getting hott 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 full of cars Cops on the mega phone, "come now" But it all calmed down Beau comes out, hands showing, his arms Derrick comes down, little 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 that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em we gonna learn to treat our people sacred Theres type of way kid, we're all related When we grow and get rid of the hatred 'cause this happens on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular basis type of shit happens everyday 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)