[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, turn me up, me up Turn me up, me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything, yeah Yeah, real shit, real shit, Raekwon All day, go, aiyo, aiyo, aiyo
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was born and raised, in the I was born and raised, in the I was and raised, in the ghetto Listen to me, and lay up
Park Hill Projects, one pound Holding it down, the motto, 'lo goose and lottos on the regular, O.G. style I'm into old V's, in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in labs, hitting the green bags Visualizing in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the haters hate it In this corner, a young don with a crisp lab
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you make your bread in the How do you make your in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We make bread in the ghetto, by selling that See niggas make bread by busting the gat Might stick a up, stab him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them game, rather have bread than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell anything as as we not broke So if you getting bread, we be coming for your throat It's crazy what a might do for the bread Might violate parole til ya is dead We get bread in the ghetto, while we the feds I heard bread in the ghetto got a loaf on his head, on
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
Killah] Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in bags Torture them, toss 'em out the with rift rafts Cuz we take kindly to rats in the ghetto Either your mouth stay shut or get with the metal Big fat get fried like porkchops for snitching Get ass hung like a wall clock It's Tone Stark, Billy the Kid the gun bark A wire out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise kids in the ghetto? How do you raise kids in the ghetto? Feed one child and starve Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we from the same mothers In the projects, the same covers Wore the same drawers, the same whores Rolled dice, rhymes, did crimes in the same hall Sprayed our names on the same Yo, your kids knew my kids, wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in and showbiz If that's what it is, then what it is Run up in crib, with twelve black brothers digest to live, die just to live Some called us martyrs, some called us Run up in the club like the suicide We be the brothers, ready lovers Never see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, got lost The money got flipped, your tables got Now you all caught up in that talk Brain dead in the grain of With a and a game that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the same thought