Kane] Aiyyyyyyyyyyyyyyo!

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Check it out, check

Aiyyo, we gonna send out to all the projects out there

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Yknahmsayin? Like Roosevelt Projects, Marcy Projects

We gon' send it to Fort Greene, L.G.

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Better yet, all the projects in Brook', no

all the projects on the East Coast

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Now when we come to Church Street South

Yknahmsayin? Canal Street there in Durham, North Carolina

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Streets of Crooklyn, and all the great streets

Everyone everywhere! Sounds like everywhere around the universe

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Yknahmsayin? All the projects, yknahmsayin?

We sendin this out to everybody, this one here

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Now do you understand me?

We gonna set it off one time, dig the flavor y'all

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

[Kane] Ha hah hah!



[Big Daddy Kane]

Livin in the world of ghetto life

Shot with the gun, get you cut with the knife

That's the story yo, the way the peeps like to move

No fakin the funk, it's all about how to show and prove

Some get to make it through life livin legal

The others gotta try to survive, doin the evil

that men do, peace to every hood that I been through

I even got love for my homies in South Central

But to the East my brother, cause that's where I stay at

Runnin through the streets like a stray cat

Like that Good Times show it makes me go

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Up in the projects, it gets no ILLER

With true gue-RILLAS, and stone cold KILLERS

It seems that every night, you get to hear the fireworks

As much as I hate, to see my people die or hurt

it's just a street mentality, a reality

Neighborhood warfare, that brings home casualties

And just because I moved out the residence

It don't mean that I can't represent



Chorus: Kane + "Yeah! Yeah!" - chanted in back throughout



So to my peeps in the PJ's, throw your hands in the air

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

Let me know you're out there

To my peeps in the PJ's, throw your hands in the air

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

Let me know you're out there

And to my peeps in the PJ's, throw your hands in the air

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

And let me know you're out there

Ah to my peeps in the PJ's, throw your hands in the air

[Rick] "For all of y'all.."

And let me know you're out there



[Big Daddy Kane]

I'm runnin mob deep around the way

It's me and the crew, we're tryin to map out the day

Yo what's the haps on how we gettin snaps?

Are we gonna shoot some cee-lo, or play a game of craps?

Matter fact, Shane, ring the intercom

And see if you can get ten dollars from my moms

Tell her to throw it out the window if she got it to spare

Cause the elevator's broke, and I ain't checkin for the stairs

And do me a solid, run to the store shorty

And pick me up some Olde E, but not a 40

Just a two-two of brew will do, so I can knock it out fast

to make the coldness last



[Scoob]

And while you at man see where'd your friend go (word)

He shoulda been back a HOUR ago with the indo (yeah)



[Big Daddy Kane]

And meet us in the back park to get sparked

So I can be toasted by time it gets dark

Aiyyo Jay, I see that bulge in the back of your jeans

Hope that's the God U Now, know what I mean?

Cause if somebody brings the noise, I'ma make it a silent movie

So take the safety off the toolie

Cause I don't want no beef, NAHHHHH BABY

The only thing I wanna do is PARRRRRRLAY

Peace and harmony is what I relate to

But damn man, drama's just in the nature



Chorus



[Big Daddy Kane]

I send this out to the homies in the hood

That stood by my side, to help a brother do good

Just like SWV you was Right Here

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we in there

From all thugs that flex with all the muscle

down to the brothers, that got a swift hustle

Like good golly Miss Three Card Molly, a neat trick

where people get beat quick

Wanna see a sweet vic?



[card shark]

Jackety Jack, blackety black

You get nuttin back, and that's a fact

The sweetest game I ever seen

All you gotta do is find the red queen

Just point to it, can anybody point to it?

I play by the point of the finger of the hand

"The one in the middle! The one in the middle!"

That's black, you get no money back!



(Kane: Aww man! See, I told you!)