[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, let's go, aiyo, aiyo,
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was and raised, in the ghetto I was born and raised, in the I was born and raised, in the to me, and just lay up
Park Projects, one eight pound Holding it down, the motto, 'lo goose and lottos 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, the green bags Visualizing in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In corner, a rich young don with a crisp lab
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you your bread in the ghetto? How do you make your in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We make in the ghetto, by selling that crack See niggas that make bread by the gat Might stick a nigga up, him dead in his back It's a bread game, but we get through them stacks Bread game, rather bread than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell anything as long as we not So if you that bread, we be coming for your throat It's crazy what a brother might do for the violate parole til ya family is dead We get bread in the ghetto, while we ducking the I heard bread in the ghetto got a loaf on his head, 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, duff 'em, 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to rats in the 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 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 your kids in the ghetto? How do you raise your kids in the Feed one and starve another Tell me, me, and just lay up
We like brothers, we from the same mothers In the projects, under the covers the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the hall Sprayed our names on the wall Yo, your knew my kids, your wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in music and If what it is, then 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 like the bombers We be the brothers, past lovers wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, friends got The money got flipped, your got crossed Now you all up in that label talk Brain in the grain of thoughts With a and a game that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the same thought