[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, let's go, aiyo, aiyo,
[Marlena "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 to me, and just lay up
Park Projects, one eight pound Holding it down, that's the motto, 'lo goose and on the regular, O.G. style I'm into old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the bags Visualizing Chef in the green Wait til I get on, the haters gonna it In corner, a rich young don with 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 bread in the ghetto? How do you make your in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We bread 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 game, but we get through them stacks Bread game, rather have bread fame Some pills 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 what a might do for the bread violate parole til ya family is dead We get bread in the ghetto, we ducking the feds I bread in the ghetto 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
Killah] Yo, yo, we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to rats in the Either your mouth stay shut or get slapped the metal Big fat get fried like porkchops for snitching Get your ass like a wall clock It's Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun A wire sticking out his shirt, he 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 child and starve Tell me, me, and just lay up
We like brothers, we came from the mothers In the projects, under the same Wore the same drawers, fucked the same Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same our names on the same wall Yo, your kids knew my kids, your wiz my wiz Now you caught up in music and If that's it is, then that's what it is Run up in your crib, with twelve brothers 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 past wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, got lost The money got flipped, your tables got Now you all caught up in label talk Brain dead in the of thoughts With a name and a game that can change New We ate from the same fork, pop had the same thought