[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up Turn me up, turn me up, yeah, yeah, 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 born and raised, in the I was and raised, in the ghetto Listen to me, and lay up
Park Projects, one eight 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 them All I know is running in fiends labs, the green bags Visualizing in the green Jag's til I get on, the haters gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don a crisp lab
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] Brother, to me Brother, to me to me, and just lay up How do you make bread in the ghetto? How do you your bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We make bread in the ghetto, by selling crack See niggas that bread by busting the gat Might stick a nigga up, him dead in his back It's a dirty bread game, but we get through them Bread game, rather have than fame Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no Might sell anything as as we not broke So if you getting bread, we be coming for your throat It's crazy what a might do for the bread Might violate til ya family is dead We get in the ghetto, while we ducking the feds I heard in the ghetto got a loaf 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 rats in the
[Ghostface Yo, yo, we ox 'em, duff 'em, stuff 'em in black bags Torture them, toss 'em out the window with rafts Cuz we take kindly to rats in the ghetto Either mouth stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat rats get fried like for snitching Get ass hung like a wall clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark A sticking out his shirt, he talking to NARC!
[Marlena "Woman of the Ghetto" sample] How do you raise your kids in the How do you raise your kids in the Feed one child and another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we came from the mothers In the projects, the same covers the same drawers, fucked the same whores Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same Sprayed our names on the same Yo, your kids knew my kids, your wiz my wiz Now you caught up in and showbiz If that's what it is, that's what it is Run up in crib, with twelve black brothers That'll digest to live, die to live Some called us martyrs, some called us Run up in the club like the bombers We be the brothers, ready lovers wanna see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, got lost The money got flipped, tables got crossed Now you all caught up in label talk Brain in the grain of thoughts a name and a game that can change New York We ate the same fork, pop had the same thought [echo]