[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm Queens right there on Merrick of honesty, loyalty, good merits Gotta lil sister and my pops perished And I just came home so my I really cherish Young when they bagged me, in the can is torcher And I just did that for Odds was me, murder in the second degree Made it less 'cause I 'em a plea That's the past, now a home tryna clean up his past all niggaz kno me for is the past 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 I was doing I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us of me sellin crack forever She be ina shop right, getting bags together endeavors, wont allow me to get work Forced me to get On apps they ask if you ever to jail, like if I say yes you'll hire me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I gotta lil sister that's Plus moms is chillin, wit 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 that I hafta tote Stash ya kno, I'm killin em, only nigga on the Ave. with Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And those two chicks a that mom get don't last Lil still young she developing fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, a hell of a task Then it clicked me, plain close, came to get me But knew that I had mine on to hit me And I moved swiftly, said they had a knew about it all they said they had an informant I'm in this caged up cell the apes in jail, now I'm back in this eight by twelve See I tried to right But society ain't for niggaz to live right Mommy just make sure Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be home real soon, cry, it's iight
I know it might seem it's all good But this is what it's like in the I rep my set you should But this is it's like in the hood (repeat)
as Sally] My names Sally, and I'm Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, remarried I gotta big bro, but he's in Moms said for things that he used to sell And I'm always with step-dad, his Beau And theres some about him that my mom don't kno And he says if I tell it won't be pretty And I'm scared of em, he's already hit me He me places I don't like it And I ain't bout a hug or goodbye kiss I mean touch me places private And he don't just touch he put summin it He the more he does that, I'll start to like it Hand my mouth so I'm quiet Moms only wit 'em 'cause our is low I'm but I'm shaped like a twenty year old And my in love so she makes excuses But she looks at me and sees scrapes and Why step daddy take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm raped I cant do this Nobody I'm weary Get goosebumps a man come near me how it feel to have a man use you for a cushion All the while and pushin You try to push him, he's bothered You and you scream but he starts going harder Trust me, summin you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even when over, your life, it'll scare 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 me, fucked me, you think that I can tell him that? Beau called the cops on him, could I him that? Yep, thought 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 handle it, wipe my tears He don't know, is what it's like for years And it on def ears mommy please come home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are to keep Some secrets make it hard to And sleep is the only I feel safe Still the act haunts me, and I kno wake up with step daddy on me
I know it might like it's all good But this is what it's in the hood I rep my set you should But this is it's like in the hood (repeat)
as Beau] My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam I live with But she's in church, real religious I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a killed him a week before Christmas Three shots close range with a I knew I met Pam that it was Pam's son I knew I pulled the Mill out harder And on a manhunt just to kill they father Derrick and my boy hadda mutual That put me on what I gotta do for revenge Derricks coming home now, and he's get it And I kno he'll be for me with a biscuit Not hard to find, got them in handy, and I'm in his house having sex 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 told em, and you can't hide nothing ina hood so small But then it Sunday, Beau ain't hafta work Just humped on Sally, Pam's in Derrick bust in, Beau froze White shit on his nose, Sally her clothes Screams, "Get ready for your Beau" And then he to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause he's packin but starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she having contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, ignoring the seed that's coming Now Sally's in the crossfire, out stop Holes in the wall, now the scenes hott Next 30 seconds on the scene is the Yellow tape up, now the scenes blocked Barricades up, yep, you kno y'all Ambulance there, streets full of patrol Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all down somehow Beau comes out, hands showing, carrying his Derrick comes down, little Sally in his Yep, to say, she was hit by a stray Nope! Shots done ric-o-shade, cops him away And now some niggaz em But it wasn't the that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we gonna learn to treat our people some type of way kid, we're all related When we gonna and get rid of the hatred 'cause this happens on a regular basis, this shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit happens everyday
I know it might seem like all good But is what it's like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what it's in the hood (repeat)