[Joe as My names Derrick, I'm Queens right there on Merrick of honesty, loyalty, good merits Gotta lil sister and my just perished And I just came home so my freedom I really Young when they bagged me, in the can is torcher And I just did for manslaughter was against 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 some cash They know if something ever sparked it'll cock it and Now I'm tryna straight and get my act together But my struggling, she putting scraps together Long time ago, when I wasn't home she was cleaning my Cried when she found a gat in the Said no child of hers had dat, never!!! But with all the I was doing I felt like I hadda protect her, I hadda us Stead of me sellin crack She rather be ina shop right, getting 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 you'll me DON'T LIE TO ME!!! I lil sister that's nine Plus moms is chillin, wit some new dude I she feeling But he don't help with the bills and I'm 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 on the Ave. with coke Only man in the house, I gotta bring in And those two chicks a month that mom get don't Lil Sally still young she fast Oh, you thinking the same thing, it's a hell of a it clicked me, plain close, cops came to get me But that I had mine on threaten to hit me And I moved swiftly, said had a warrant They knew it all they said they had an informant I'm back in caged up cell With the apes in jail, now I'm in this eight by twelve See I to live right But society ain't for niggaz to live right just write Mommy make Sally keep her shit tight And I'll be real soon, don't cry, it's iight
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 (repeat)
[Joe as My Sally, and I'm from Queens I'm not happy Dad pasted away, remarried I gotta big bro, but in jail said for some things that he used to sell And I'm with step-dad, his names Beau And theres some about him that my mom don't kno And he says if I that it won't be pretty And I'm really scared of em, he's hit me He touches me places I like it And I ain't talking bout a hug or goodbye I mean touch me places private And he don't just he put summin inside it He says the more he does that, I'll to like it Hand over my mouth so I'm Moms wit 'em 'cause our money is low I'm but I'm shaped like a twenty year old And my moms in love so she makes But she looks at me and sees and bruises Why step daddy take me thru this Help, somebody, I'm getting raped I cant do Nobody understands I'm Get goosebumps a man come near me how it feel to have a man use you for a cushion All the while moaning and You try to him, he's getting bothered You yell and you but he starts going harder me, it's summin you don't wanna be apart of 'cause even when it's over, life, it'll scare ya Visit my bro, he can 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 that I can tell him that? Beau the cops on him, could I tell 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 I used to be a virgin Derrick says he'll it, wipe my tears He know, this is what it's like for years And it falls on def Damn please come home, please mommy don't leave us alone Some secrets are to keep Some secrets it hard to sleep And sleep is the only time I feel Still the act me, and I kno I'ma wake up with step daddy on me
I know it might like it's 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)
[Joe as My names Beau, gotta chick named Pam that I live But she's always in church, real I hadda son he was he was gifted Til a nigga killed him a before Christmas Three close range with a handgun I knew I met Pam that it was Pam's son I knew when I pulled the out harder And went on a manhunt to kill they father and my boy hadda mutual friend That put me on doing what I gotta do for Derricks coming now, and he's gonna get it And I kno he'll be lookin for me a biscuit Not hard to find, got teks 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 sister 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 hafta work humped on Sally, Pam's in church Derrick bust in, Beau just White shit on his nose, getting her clothes Screams, "Get ready for your Beau" And he reach to his hip and let a few of 'em go Cause packin but Sally starts gaspin Holdin her stomach, I guess she having contractions Beau grabbed his, now both got heat Just gunnin, both ignoring the seed that's Now Sally's in the crossfire, out stop Holes in the wall, now the getting hott Next 30 on the scene is the cops tape up, now the scenes getting blocked Barricades up, yep, you kno y'all Ambulance there, full of patrol cars Cops on the phone, "come down now" But it all down somehow Beau comes out, hands showing, his arms Derrick comes down, little Sally in his 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 that killed Sally, nah it was the dumb niggaz wit em When we learn to treat our people sacred Theres some of way kid, we're all related When we gonna and get rid of the hatred 'cause this shit happens on a regular basis, shit happens on a regular basis This type of shit everyday kidd
I know it might like it's all good But this is it's like in the hood I rep my set like you But this is what it's like in the (repeat)