[Intro: Yo, yo, yo, me up, turn me up Turn me up, me up, yeah, yeah, come on Yeah, yeah, yeah, take everything, Yeah, shit, real 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 old V's, swinging in cabs, slinging them OZ's All I know is running in fiends labs, hitting the green Visualizing Chef in the green Wait til I get on, the gonna hate it In this corner, a rich young don with a lab
[Marlena Shaw "Woman of the Ghetto" Brother, to me Brother, to me Listen to me, and lay up How do you make your bread in the How do you make bread in the ghetto?
Hustling, & flow We make bread in the ghetto, by selling crack See niggas that make 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, have bread than fame Some sell pills and weed, it ain't no sell anything as long as we not broke So if you that bread, we be coming for your throat It's what a brother might do for the bread Might parole 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 Listen to me, and 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, 'em out the window with rift rafts Cuz we don't take kindly to in the ghetto your mouth stay shut or get slapped with the metal Big fat get fried like porkchops for snitching Get your ass like a wall clock Tone Stark, Billy the Kid when the gun bark 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 your kids in the ghetto? Feed one and starve another Tell me, tell me, and lay up
We like brothers, we came the same mothers In the projects, under the covers Wore the same drawers, fucked the same Rolled dice, kicked rhymes, did crimes in the same Sprayed our names on the 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 crib, with twelve black brothers That'll digest to live, die to live Some called us martyrs, called us fathers Run up in the like the suicide bombers We be the brothers, ready past Never see us, blow, we not others Somewhere in the competition, friends got The money got flipped, your got crossed Now you all caught up in that label dead in the grain of thoughts With a and a game that can change New York We ate from the same fork, pop had the thought [echo]