[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up me up, turn me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything, yeah Yeah, real shit, real shit, Raekwon All day, let's go, aiyo, aiyo,
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was born and raised, in the I was and raised, in the ghetto 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 Blunts on the regular, O.G. I'm into old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the bags Chef in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the haters hate it In corner, a rich young don with a crisp lab
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you make your bread in the How do you make bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We make bread in the ghetto, by that crack See niggas that make by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, stab him in his back It's a bread game, but we get through them stacks Bread game, rather have than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke sell anything as long as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be for your throat It's crazy what a brother might do for the Might parole til ya family 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 rats in the
[Ghostface Yo, yo, we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the window rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to rats in the Either your mouth shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried like for snitching Get your ass hung a wall clock It's Tone Stark, Billy the Kid the gun bark A sticking 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 your kids in the Feed one and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we came from the same In the projects, under the covers Wore the same drawers, fucked the whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same Sprayed our names on the same Yo, your kids knew my kids, wiz knew my wiz Now you up in music and showbiz If that's what it is, then that's it is Run up in your crib, with twelve black That'll digest to live, die just to Some us martyrs, some called us fathers Run up in the club like the suicide We be the brothers, past lovers Never see us, blow, we not others in the competition, friends got lost The got flipped, your tables got crossed Now you all caught up in that talk dead in the grain of thoughts With a name and a that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the thought [echo]