[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up me up, turn 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 it down, that's 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, the green bags Chef in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the haters hate it In this corner, a rich young don with a lab
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] 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 bread in the
Hustling, hustle & We bread in the ghetto, by selling that crack See that 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 them game, rather have bread than fame Some sell pills and weed, it no joke Might sell anything as as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be coming for throat crazy what a brother might do for the bread Might violate parole til ya family is We get in the ghetto, while we ducking the feds I bread in the ghetto got a loaf on his head, come on
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you get rid of rats in the
[Ghostface Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, duff 'em, 'em in black bags them, toss 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't kindly to rats in the ghetto Either your mouth stay shut or get slapped with the Big fat rats get like 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 "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise your kids in the How do you raise kids in the ghetto? one child and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we came from the same In the projects, under the same Wore the same drawers, fucked the same dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same hall Sprayed our names on the wall Yo, your knew my kids, your wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in and showbiz If that's what it is, that's what it is Run up in your crib, twelve black brothers That'll to live, die just to live Some called us martyrs, some called us Run up in the club the suicide bombers We be the brothers, past lovers Never 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 that talk dead in the grain of thoughts With a name and a that can change New York We ate the same fork, pop had the same thought [echo]