[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up Turn me up, me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, take everything, Yeah, real shit, real shit, Raekwon 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 born and raised, in the 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, the green bags Chef in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don a crisp lab
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you make your in the ghetto? How do you make your in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We make bread in the ghetto, by that crack See niggas that bread by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, stab him dead in his It's a dirty bread game, but we get them stacks game, rather have bread than fame Some pills and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell anything as long as we not So if you getting bread, we be coming for your throat It's crazy what a brother might do for the Might violate parole til ya is dead We get bread in the ghetto, we ducking the feds I heard in the ghetto got a loaf on his head, come on
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
Killah] Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, duff 'em, 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the with rift rafts Cuz we don't kindly to rats in the ghetto Either your mouth stay shut or get with the metal Big fat rats get like porkchops for snitching Get your ass hung a wall clock It's Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun A wire sticking out his shirt, he to NARC!
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" How do you raise your in the ghetto? How do you your kids in the ghetto? one child and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We brothers, we came from the same mothers In the projects, the same covers Wore the same drawers, the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the hall Sprayed our on the same wall Yo, your kids knew my kids, wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in music and If that's what it is, that's what it is Run up in your crib, with twelve black That'll to live, die just to live Some called us martyrs, some us fathers Run up in the club the suicide bombers We be the brothers, ready lovers Never see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, friends got The money got flipped, your got crossed Now you all caught up in that talk Brain in the grain of thoughts With a name and a that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the thought [echo]