[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, Shallah All day, let's go, aiyo, aiyo,
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] I was and raised, in the ghetto 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 old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the green Visualizing in the green Jag's Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don 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 bread in the
Hustling, hustle & We make bread in the ghetto, by selling that See niggas that bread by busting the gat Might stick a up, stab him dead in his back It's a dirty game, but we get through them stacks Bread game, rather have than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke Might sell anything as as we not broke So if you getting bread, we be coming for your throat It's what a brother might do for the bread Might violate til ya family is dead We get bread in the ghetto, while we ducking the 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 Listen to me, and lay up How do you get rid of rats in the
[Ghostface Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the with rift rafts Cuz we take kindly to rats in the ghetto Either your mouth stay or get slapped with the metal 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 out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you your kids in the ghetto? How do you raise your kids in the Feed one and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We brothers, we came from the same mothers In the projects, under the covers the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did in the same hall Sprayed our on the same wall Yo, your knew my kids, your 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, twelve black brothers That'll digest to live, die just to Some us martyrs, some called us fathers Run up in the club like the bombers We be the brothers, past lovers Never wanna see us, blow, we not Somewhere in the competition, friends got The money got flipped, tables got crossed Now you all caught up in 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 [echo]