[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, real shit, Shallah All day, go, aiyo, aiyo, aiyo
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was and raised, in the ghetto 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, that's the motto, 'lo goose and on the regular, O.G. style I'm into old V's, in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the bags Visualizing in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don 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 in the ghetto? How do you your bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We bread in the ghetto, by selling that crack See niggas that make by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, stab him dead in his It's a bread game, but we get through them stacks game, rather have bread than fame Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no Might sell as long as we not broke So if you that bread, we be coming for your throat crazy what a brother might do for the bread Might violate parole til ya family is We get bread in the ghetto, we ducking 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 Listen to me, and lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
[Ghostface Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the window with rift Cuz we don't take to rats in the ghetto Either your mouth stay shut or get slapped with the Big fat get fried like porkchops for snitching Get ass hung like a wall clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A sticking out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise kids in the ghetto? How do you raise your in the ghetto? Feed one child and another Tell me, me, and just lay up
We brothers, we came from the same mothers In the projects, under the covers Wore the same drawers, fucked the whores dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same hall Sprayed our names on the wall Yo, your kids knew my kids, your wiz my wiz Now you caught up in 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 to live called us martyrs, some 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 got flipped, your tables got crossed Now you all caught up in label talk Brain dead in the of thoughts With a name and a that can change New York We ate the same fork, pop had the same thought [echo]