[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, shit, Shallah Raekwon All day, go, aiyo, aiyo, aiyo
Shaw "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 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, swinging in cabs, slinging OZ's All I know is in fiends labs, hitting the green bags Visualizing Chef in the green Wait til I get on, the haters hate it In this corner, a rich don with a crisp lab
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] 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 in the ghetto, by selling that crack See niggas that bread by busting the gat stick a nigga up, stab him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them game, rather have bread than fame Some sell and weed, it ain't no joke Might anything as long as we not broke So if you getting that bread, we be for your throat It's crazy what a brother 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
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
Killah] Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, 'em, stuff 'em in black bags them, toss 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to in the ghetto Either your stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried like for snitching Get your ass hung a wall clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A sticking out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise your in the ghetto? How do you your kids in the ghetto? Feed one and starve another me, tell me, and just lay up
We brothers, we came from the same mothers In the projects, under the same the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did in the same hall Sprayed our names on the wall Yo, your knew my kids, your wiz knew my wiz Now you caught up in and showbiz If what it is, then that's what it is Run up in your crib, with twelve brothers digest to live, die just to live Some called us martyrs, called us fathers Run up in the like the suicide bombers We be the brothers, ready lovers 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 label talk dead in the grain of thoughts With a name and a game that can New York We ate from the fork, pop had the same thought [echo]