[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, turn me up, me up me up, turn me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, take everything, Yeah, shit, real shit, Shallah Raekwon All day, go, aiyo, aiyo, aiyo
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" 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 Hill Projects, one eight 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 is running in fiends labs, hitting the green bags Visualizing in the green Jag's til I get on, the haters gonna hate it In this corner, a young don with a crisp lab
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you make your bread in the How do you your bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We make in the ghetto, by selling that crack See niggas make bread by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, stab him dead in his It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them Bread game, rather bread than fame Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no Might sell as long as we not broke So if you getting bread, we be coming for your throat It's crazy a brother might do for the bread violate parole til ya family is dead We get bread in the ghetto, we ducking the feds 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 to me, and just lay up How do you get rid of in the ghetto?
[Ghostface 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 to rats in the ghetto your mouth stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried like for snitching Get ass hung like a wall clock It's Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun A sticking 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 kids in the ghetto? Feed one child and another me, tell me, and just lay up
We like brothers, we from the same mothers In the projects, the same covers Wore the same drawers, fucked the whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same our names on the same wall Yo, your kids knew my kids, 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 digest to live, die to live Some called us martyrs, called us fathers Run up in the club like the bombers We be the brothers, ready past wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, got lost The got flipped, your tables got crossed Now you all caught up in label talk Brain dead in the of thoughts With a and a game that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the same [echo]