[Joey as My names Derrick, I'm from Queens there on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, merits Gotta lil and my pops just perished And I just came home so my freedom I really Young when they bagged me, in the can is torcher And I did that for manslaughter Odds was against me, murder in the degree Made it cuz I gave 'em a plea the past, now a dude home tryna clean up his past When all niggaz kno me for is the And my minds always thinking how to pocket cash They know if something sparked it'll cock it and blast Now I'm tryna live straight and get my act But my moms struggling, she putting scraps Long time ago, I wasn't home she was cleaning my room when she found a gat in the dresser Said no child of woulda had dat, never!!! But with all the I was doing I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us of me sellin crack forever She rather be ina shop right, bags together endeavors, wont allow me to get work Forced me to get On apps they ask if you ever been to jail, like if I say yes hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil that's nine Plus is chillin, wit some new dude I think she feeling But he don't help with the bills and I'm back on the So we don't go broke, I'm back to this hammer I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm em, only nigga on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And those two chicks a month mom get don't last Lil Sally still she developing fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a of a task Then it clicked me, plain close, cops to get me But knew I had mine on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, they had a warrant They knew about it all they said had an informant I'm back in this up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm back in this by twelve See I to live right But society ain't made for niggaz to right Mommy just Mommy sure Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, don't cry, it's
I know it might seem like it's all But is what it's like in the hood I rep my set you should But is what it's like in the hood
[Joey as My names Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not Dad pasted away, remarried I gotta big bro, but in jail Moms said for some things that he to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his names And theres some things about him my mom don't kno And he says if I tell it won't be pretty And I'm really scared of em, already hit me He me places I don't like it And I ain't bout a hug or goodbye kiss I mean me places that's private And he don't just he put summin inside it He says the he does that, I'll start to like it Hand my mouth so I'm quiet only wit 'em cuz our money is low I'm sixteen but I'm shaped like a year old And my moms in love so she makes But she at me and sees scrapes and bruises Why step gotta take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting raped I cant do Nobody I'm weary Get anytime a man come near me Know how it to have a man use you for a cushion All the moaning and pushin You try to push him, getting bothered You yell and you but he starts going harder Trust me, summin you don't wanna be apart of Cuz even it's over, your life, it'll scare ya Visit my bro, he can I'm sad hard at my stomach he can tell I'm fat He can I'm mad But step daddy touched me, fucked me, you that I can tell him that? called the cops on him, could I tell him that? Yep, thought you'd agree so I it all to me Baby on the way, and I'm not And I kno it's his cause I used to be a Derrick says handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, this is what it's for years And it on def ears Damn mommy please come home, please don't leave us alone Some are hard to keep Some secrets it hard to sleep And sleep is the only time I safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno wake up with step daddy on me
[Joey as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam I live with But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a killed him a week before Christmas shots close range with a handgun I knew before I met Pam that it was son I when I pulled the Mill out harder And went on a manhunt to kill they father Derrick and my boy mutual friend That put me on what I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming home now, and gonna get it And I kno he'll be lookin for me with a Not hard to find, got teks in handy, and I'm in his house sex with him family I got his mom on the bed and the And I'm with his molesting her candy Now he kno it all His prolly told em, and you can't hide nothing ina hood so small But then it came Sunday, Beau ain't work Just humped on Sally, in church bust in, Beau just froze White shit on his nose, Sally getting her Screams, "Get ready for funeral Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she started having Beau his, now they both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the seed that's Now in the crossfire, screams out stop Holes in the wall, now the getting hott Next 30 seconds on the is the cops Yellow tape up, now the scenes blocked Barricades up, yep, you already kno there, streets full of patrol cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all calmed somehow Beau out, hands showing, carrying his arms Derrick down, little Sally in his arms Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops take him And now niggaz miss em But it wasn't the guns that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb wit em When we gonna to treat our people sacred Theres some type of way kid, we're all When we gonna and get rid of the hatred Cuz this shit happens on a basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit happens everyday