Please believe that   Some how some way   We gotta make it up out the hood some day   Some how some way   We gotta make it up out this life   Some how some way   We gotta make it up out the hood some day   Some way we gotta make it up out this life      Whether we dribble out this motherfucker   Rap metaphors and riddle out this motherfucker   Work second floors, hospital out this motherfucker   Some how we gotta get up out this motherfucker   Some day the cops will kill a motherfucker   I don't always want to be this drug dealing motherfucker damn   Wish I could take us all on this magic carpet ride through the sky      I use to play the hall up fifth floor me   And my boys we all poor getting high   I seen the worst of the worst I deserve every blessing I received   I'm from the dirt, I planted my seed on unfertile land   Myrtle Park, Marcy, Flushing and Nostrand   And still I grew some how I knew the sun will shine through   And touch my soul take hold of my hand   Look man a tree grows in Brooklyn      Some how some way   I gotta make it up out the hood someday   Some how some way   I gotta make it up out this life, c'mon   Some way I gotta make it up out the hood someday      To old Nell, Sigel street I ain't forget you   Twenty niggas on the block trying to chase that buck   Nosey neighbors and haters keep their face on stuck   Cops roll up on the pavement break the dice games up   Behind smoke kids can't chase the ice cream truck   Girls fighting over Rollie young boys hype things up      Niggas fighting over Cold young boys light things up   All the petty ass wars fuck the night scene up   Remember Lil' Eddie man how he light mean up   Then they wonder why we light green up   Back to back steamer trying to relax but I can't   I lean up, ain't the L or the refer that steam up, that steam up      It's my head stress to the point I get a fever   Thinking bout the block and all the mothers and kids   That can't leave and how the Chinks gotta feed'em   For the rest of their life fucking wings fried   Vegetable rice, gotta be kidding, no breakfast, Cap'n Crunch at night   Our kids eating lunch at night in their beds all bunched in tight      No less than three or four, you know how it go   Two by the foot two by the headboard   Man I'm getting scared for them, yeah I know   That's how I feel for 'em and we gotta grip the shorties on the block   All they do is smoke weed and drink forties, cock their lower quarties   Enough to get the latest roc, newest glock and old Jordies      Some how some way   We gonna make it up out this hood one day   Some how some way   We gonna make it up out this life   Some how some way   We gonna make it up out the hood one day   Some way we gonna make it up out this life      Right here another lil' story bout this click I claimed   Another chapter based on how I get that game   Hanging round my neighborhood and bang my street   Sit and watch the passer-bys play my sweep   South-side sunny side blocks I run South Vegas, South Paul      Nigga all got guns   Over here we got this poor child, he'd that there   We know tomorrow ain't promise so we get that there   Fuck sitting in the living room guarding the steps   Working inside a slump house starving to death      Serving these nigga flippers, quarter-ounces and zippers   Agents snapping your picture neighbors plotting to get ya   Situations is critic I was out here to get it   Living it like a savage cause nigga I gotta have it   And holding back all the mothers for a minute, pumping hard dog      Erase enough to walk it down and fuck it all dog   Love being willied and your creek gonna rise   I'm be a nigga and these streets gonna rise   Some how some way, some how some way   I'm be a nigga and these streets gonna rise, some how some way      Some how some way   We gotta make it up out the hood some day   Some how some way   We gotta make it up out this life   Some how some way   We gotta make it up out the hood some day   Some way we gotta make it up out this life