[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, turn me up, 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
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was born and raised, in the I was and raised, in the ghetto I was and raised, in the ghetto Listen to me, and lay up
Park Projects, one eight pound Holding it down, that's the motto, 'lo goose and Blunts on the regular, O.G. I'm into old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging them All I know is running in fiends labs, the green bags Visualizing Chef in the green 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 Listen to me, and lay up How do you make your in the ghetto? How do you your bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, hustle & We make bread in the ghetto, by that crack See niggas make bread by busting the gat Might a nigga up, stab him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them Bread game, rather have bread fame Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no Might anything as long as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be coming for throat It's what a brother might do for the bread Might parole til ya family is dead We get bread in the ghetto, while we the feds I heard bread in the ghetto got a 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, 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to rats in the Either your mouth stay or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried like for snitching Get your ass hung like a clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A wire out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you your kids in the ghetto? How do you raise your kids in the Feed one child and another Tell me, me, and just lay up
We like brothers, we came the same mothers In the projects, the same covers the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, rhymes, did crimes in the same hall Sprayed our names on the wall Yo, kids knew my kids, your wiz knew my wiz Now you up in music and showbiz If what it is, then that's what it is Run up in your crib, with twelve black digest to live, die just to live Some us martyrs, some called us fathers Run up in the club the suicide bombers We be the brothers, ready past wanna 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 label Brain dead in the grain of With a name and a game that can New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the thought [echo]