[Joey as My names Derrick, I'm from Queens right on Merrick Raised of honesty, loyalty, merits Gotta lil sister and my pops perished And I just came home so my freedom I really Young they bagged me, seven in the can is torcher And I just did for manslaughter was against me, murder in the second degree Made it less cuz I gave 'em a That's the past, now a dude home 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 ever sparked it'll it and blast Now I'm tryna live and get my act together But my moms struggling, she putting together Long time ago, when I wasn't she was cleaning my room Cried she found a gat in the dresser Said no of hers woulda had dat, never!!! But with all the dirt I was I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us Stead of me crack forever She be ina shop right, getting bags together Passing endeavors, wont allow me to get me to get work On apps they ask if you been to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me NIGGA LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister that's Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I she feeling But he don't with the bills and I'm back on the script So we don't go broke, I'm back to hammer that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only nigga on the Ave. with Only man in the house, I bring in cash And two chicks a month that mom get don't last Lil still young she developing fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a of a task Then it clicked me, close, cops came to get me But that I had mine on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, said they had a They knew about it all said they had an informant I'm back in caged up cell With the in jail, now I'm back in this eight by twelve See I tried to right But society ain't made for to live right Mommy write Mommy make sure Sally keep her shit And be home real soon, don't cry, it's iight
I know it seem like it's all good But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set like you But is what it's like in the hood
[Joey as My names Sally, and I'm from I'm not happy Dad away, moms remarried I gotta big bro, but he's in Moms said for some things that he used to And I'm with step-dad, his names Beau And some things about him that my mom don't kno And he says if I tell that it won't be And I'm really scared of em, he's hit me He touches me I don't like it And I ain't bout a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me places that's And he don't touch he put summin inside it He says the more he does that, start to like it Hand over my so I'm quiet Moms only wit 'em cuz our is low I'm sixteen but I'm like a twenty year old And my moms in love so she makes But she looks at me and sees and bruises Why daddy gotta take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting I cant do this Nobody understands I'm Get goosebumps anytime a man come me Know how it feel to a man use you for a cushion All the while moaning and You try to push him, he's getting You yell and you scream but he starts harder Trust me, it's summin you don't wanna be of Cuz even when it's over, your life, it'll ya my bro, he can tell I'm sad Staring hard at my stomach he can I'm fat He can I'm mad But step daddy touched me, fucked me, you think that I can tell him Beau called the cops on him, could I him that? Yep, you'd agree so I keep it all to me on the way, and I'm not working And I kno it's his cause I to be a virgin Derrick says he'll handle it, wipe my He don't know, this is what it's like for And it falls on def Damn mommy please home, please mommy don't leave us alone secrets are hard to keep Some secrets make it hard to And sleep is the only time I feel Still the act haunts me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step on me
[Joey as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live But she's always in church, religious I hadda son he was young he was Til a nigga killed him a before Christmas Three shots close with a handgun I knew before I met Pam it was Pam's son I when I pulled the Mill out harder And went on a manhunt just to kill they Derrick and my boy hadda friend That put me on what I gotta do for revenge coming home now, and he's gonna get it And I kno be lookin for me with a biscuit Not to find, got them 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 friend prolly em, and you can't hide nothing ina hood so small But it came Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just humped on Sally, Pam's in Derrick in, Beau just froze White on his nose, Sally getting her clothes Screams, "Get ready for funeral Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go he's packin but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she having contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, both the seed that's coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, screams out in the wall, now the scenes getting hott Next 30 seconds on the is the cops Yellow tape up, now the getting blocked up, yep, you already kno y'all Ambulance there, 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, nuttin to say, she was hit by a Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops take him And now some niggaz em But it wasn't the guns that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb wit em When we gonna learn to treat our people some type of way kid, we're all related When we grow and get rid of the hatred Cuz shit happens on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This of shit happens everyday kidd