Raekwon] Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up Turn me up, me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, everything, yeah Yeah, real shit, real shit, Shallah All day, go, aiyo, aiyo, aiyo
[Marlena "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 eight Holding it down, that's the motto, 'lo goose and Blunts on the regular, O.G. I'm old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is in fiends labs, hitting the green bags Visualizing in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the haters gonna it In corner, a rich young don with a crisp lab
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you your bread in the ghetto? How do you make your bread in the
Hustling, & flow We make in the ghetto, by selling that crack See niggas make bread by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through stacks Bread game, rather have bread fame sell pills and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell anything as as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be coming for 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 ducking the I heard bread in the got a loaf on his head, come on
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
[Ghostface Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in bags them, toss 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't kindly to rats in the ghetto Either mouth stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get like porkchops for snitching Get your ass hung like a clock It's Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A wire sticking out his shirt, he to NARC!
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise your in the ghetto? How do you raise your in the ghetto? Feed one child and starve Tell me, me, and just lay up
We like brothers, we came from the same In the projects, under the same the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the hall Sprayed our names on the wall 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 your crib, with black brothers That'll to live, die just to live Some called us martyrs, called us fathers Run up in the club like the suicide We be the brothers, ready lovers wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, friends got The money got flipped, tables got crossed Now you all caught up in label talk Brain in the grain of thoughts With a name and a game that can change New We ate from the same fork, pop had the thought [echo]