[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm from Queens right on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, good lil sister and my pops just perished And I just came home so my freedom I really Young when they bagged me, in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was against me, in the second degree 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 always thinking how to pocket some cash They know if ever sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm live straight and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting scraps Long time ago, when I wasn't she was cleaning my room when she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of 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 forever She rather be ina shop right, getting together Passing endeavors, wont me to get work me to get work On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes hire me NIGGA LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister that's moms is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling But he don't help with the bills and I'm on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to 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 bring in And those two chicks a month mom get don't last Lil Sally still young she fast Oh, you thinking the thing, it's a hell of a task it clicked 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 They knew about it all said they had an informant I'm in this caged up cell With the in jail, now I'm back in this eight by twelve See I tried to right But society ain't for niggaz to live right just write Mommy make sure Sally her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, iight
I know it might seem like it's all But this is what it's like in the I rep my set like you But this is what it's in the hood (repeat)
[Joe as My names Sally, and I'm Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, remarried I gotta big bro, but in jail Moms said for some things he used to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his names And theres some things about him my mom don't kno And he says if I tell it won't be pretty And I'm really scared of em, already hit me He touches me I don't like it And I ain't talking a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me places that's And he don't just touch he put inside it He says the more he does that, I'll 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 like a twenty old And my moms in love so she excuses But she looks at me and scrapes and bruises Why step gotta take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting I cant do this Nobody I'm weary Get anytime a man come 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 bothered You and you scream but he starts going harder me, it's summin 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 I can tell him that? 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 it's his cause I to be a virgin Derrick says he'll it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what it's like for And it on def ears Damn mommy please come home, mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are to keep secrets make it hard to sleep And sleep is the only time I safe the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step daddy on me
I it might seem 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)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam I live with But she's always in church, religious I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a 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 out harder And went on a manhunt just to kill father 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 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 sister molesting her 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 humped on Sally, Pam's in church Derrick bust in, Beau just White shit on his nose, Sally getting her Screams, "Get for your funeral Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's packin but Sally gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she having contractions Beau grabbed his, now they got heat gunnin, both ignoring 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 scene is the 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, showing, carrying his arms Derrick comes down, Sally in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots ric-o-shade, cops take him away And now some niggaz em But it wasn't the guns killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we learn to treat our people sacred Theres some type of way kid, we're all When we grow and get rid of the hatred 'cause this shit happens on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular This of shit happens everyday kidd
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 in the hood (repeat)