[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 and raised, in the ghetto I was born and raised, in the to me, and just lay up
Park Projects, one eight pound Holding it down, that's the motto, 'lo and lottos Blunts on the regular, O.G. I'm into old V's, in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, the green bags Visualizing Chef in the green Wait til I get on, the haters hate it In this corner, a young 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 make your in the ghetto? How do you make your in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We make bread in the ghetto, by selling that 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 Bread game, rather have bread than Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no Might sell anything as long as we not So if you getting that bread, we be coming for your crazy 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 heard bread in the 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 rats in the
[Ghostface Yo, yo, aiyo we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in black Torture them, 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to rats in the Either your mouth shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried 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 raise your kids in the How do you your kids in the ghetto? Feed one child and starve Tell me, me, and just lay up
We brothers, we came from the same mothers In the projects, under the covers Wore the drawers, fucked the same whores dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same hall Sprayed our on the same wall Yo, your kids knew my kids, your wiz my wiz Now you up in music and showbiz If that's what it is, that's what it is Run up in your crib, with twelve brothers That'll 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, past lovers Never wanna see us, blow, we not Somewhere in the competition, got lost The got flipped, your tables got crossed Now you all caught up in that label Brain dead in the of thoughts With a name and a that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the same [echo]