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