[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, turn me up, me up Turn me up, me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, take everything, Yeah, real shit, shit, Shallah 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 it down, that's the motto, 'lo goose and lottos Blunts on the regular, O.G. I'm into old V's, in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the green Visualizing Chef in the green Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don with a 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 bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We make bread in the ghetto, by selling crack See niggas that make by busting the gat stick a nigga up, stab him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them Bread game, have bread than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell as long as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be coming for throat It's crazy a brother might do for the bread Might violate til ya family 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
Shaw "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, aiyo we ox 'em, 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the window rift rafts Cuz we take kindly to rats in the ghetto Either mouth stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried porkchops for snitching Get your ass like a wall clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A sticking out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" How do you raise kids in the ghetto? How do you raise kids in the ghetto? Feed one and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we came the same mothers In the projects, under the covers Wore the same drawers, fucked the whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did in the same hall our names on the same wall Yo, your knew my kids, your wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in music and If that's it is, then that's what it is Run up in crib, with twelve black brothers digest to live, die just to live Some us martyrs, some called us fathers Run up in the club like the bombers We be the brothers, past lovers wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, friends got The got flipped, your tables got crossed Now you all caught up in label talk Brain in the grain of thoughts With a and a game that can change New York We ate from the fork, pop had the same thought [echo]