TENA JONES:
In this world that we in / you can lose or you'll win / but it's never a draw / and as quick as you can make it / it's a hater tryna take it/ don't be thinkin' life is easy it's hard / I got some girls that I know / who get with guys for they doe / but they ain't happy what's the use of the wealth? / Turnin' tricks like a Retriever / what's gon' happen when he leave her? / See that's why you gotta do for yourself / This world move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS:
Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the whole day / Mi Fa / tryna survive on street blocks / Music helpin' us stay sane so we go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO / Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the whole day / Mi Fa / tryna survive on street blocks / music help us to maintain when we go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO
AHMAD JONES:
Became a sinner right before a winner / when I was born/ on the 12th day of October / in uniform / was a soldier when I came out / walked through the door/ see my whole block banged out / we in a war/ killer street but I'll never let it / take me alive / bought a heat cause I'm gettin' sweated / gotta survive / It ain't cool while my mom pray / for me at home / I be sittin' hittin' bombay / I know it's wrong / Momma tellin' me I need God / and I ain't well / but the homie with the weed got / that clientele / gettin' money so I want mine / I be like dang/ when it's sunny cause it don't shine / on me it rain / I complain cause it ain't fair / like dying over what you can and you can't wear / who cryin' bout us / out of sight so we out of mind / they say a soldier gotta fight so I got a Nine / that's bottom line / ghetto move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS
JABU:
I ain't dyin' until I share my diary with this globe / a little mad man sippin' on a brew when it's hot / ghetto taught me how to blaze for the days when it's cold and / mama dead broke and had us thinkin' we not / eyes wide shut stealin' with ridiculous speed / I was rippin' off the tag if it was somethin' I need / somethin' I wanted / we was buyin' chronic to blunt it / started servin' it / profit margin moved to the hundreds / had to stop it though cause Phyllis didn't raise no crooks / not to mention focus shifted to the girls with doe / light-skinned to the mocha it'd be on fa sho' / get the 20 dollar Remy pay a dub for Mo' /
I started slippin' up I thank God I'm still alive / cause if it wasn't for Him this verse'd never hit your soul / and I hope you in control / I know it's hard gotta break free / remember that you can't enjoy ya doe without the RE MI / we move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
In this world that we in / you can lose or you'll win / but it's never a draw / and as quick as you can make it / it's a hater tryna take it/ don't be thinkin' life is easy it's hard / I got some girls that I know / who get with guys for they doe / but they ain't happy what's the use of the wealth? / Turnin' tricks like a Retriever / what's gon' happen when he leave her? / See that's why you gotta do for yourself / This world move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS:
Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the whole day / Mi Fa / tryna survive on street blocks / Music helpin' us stay sane so we go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO / Do Re / bangin' hip-hop the whole day / Mi Fa / tryna survive on street blocks / music help us to maintain when we go / DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DO
AHMAD JONES:
Became a sinner right before a winner / when I was born/ on the 12th day of October / in uniform / was a soldier when I came out / walked through the door/ see my whole block banged out / we in a war/ killer street but I'll never let it / take me alive / bought a heat cause I'm gettin' sweated / gotta survive / It ain't cool while my mom pray / for me at home / I be sittin' hittin' bombay / I know it's wrong / Momma tellin' me I need God / and I ain't well / but the homie with the weed got / that clientele / gettin' money so I want mine / I be like dang/ when it's sunny cause it don't shine / on me it rain / I complain cause it ain't fair / like dying over what you can and you can't wear / who cryin' bout us / out of sight so we out of mind / they say a soldier gotta fight so I got a Nine / that's bottom line / ghetto move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies
CHORUS
JABU:
I ain't dyin' until I share my diary with this globe / a little mad man sippin' on a brew when it's hot / ghetto taught me how to blaze for the days when it's cold and / mama dead broke and had us thinkin' we not / eyes wide shut stealin' with ridiculous speed / I was rippin' off the tag if it was somethin' I need / somethin' I wanted / we was buyin' chronic to blunt it / started servin' it / profit margin moved to the hundreds / had to stop it though cause Phyllis didn't raise no crooks / not to mention focus shifted to the girls with doe / light-skinned to the mocha it'd be on fa sho' / get the 20 dollar Remy pay a dub for Mo' /
I started slippin' up I thank God I'm still alive / cause if it wasn't for Him this verse'd never hit your soul / and I hope you in control / I know it's hard gotta break free / remember that you can't enjoy ya doe without the RE MI / we move so quick I hyperventilate breathin' / runnin' through the city ain't no time for grievin' / so many hate livin' but too scared to die / hip-hop is the way that we cry / ghetto lullabies