Life in the Projects

[Intro] [Thurgood of PJ's] Yeah, get up, get down That's what P Funk say [Snoop] Get your money man, it's hard out there It's hard out there, dogg What, yeah, huh Get yours, get yours, get yours Shootin' dice on length with a couple of G's Dust off my knees, twist off my cap and breathe Jump in the six-four, sittin' on D Spit a few caps at my enemies Please, freeze, there's a new sheriff in town Livin' in the projects, Dogg Pound Pound No father figure, just gangbang nigga 'cause they give it up quicker and they learn to pull a trigger All role models on TV Most of us ain't got a TV, you feel me? Shit, Michael Jordan don't come through I bet the nigga get the money when it time to sell his shoe I'm telling you, I ain't puttin' him down 'cause I love him to death but I ain't ever seen him in my town But you could see Snoop Dogg everyday I'm boss to the blocks like the projects in the PJ's Yeah, for those of you who don't know This is the land of the scandalous and cut throats Child support- that's unheard of Number one crime in the motherfucker- murder Ya heard me? Hmm, I'ma stay down For the get down, from a puppy to the big dogg Put that on the penthouse Life in the projects, bang, bang, pow, pow Is how it sounds [Chorus] Life in the projects Where it's hard to get by But you got it 'cause your spot's gettin' hotter Life in the projects Where grass is cheese and cheese is power Life in the projects Where you got to have the will to know how Know how to do what? Survive Life in the projects You got to get yours 'cause I'ma get mine Life in the projects, goodness grief Everybody waitin' on the 1st and 15th The police man is tryin' to get atcha Catcha, snatcha, open up your fridge Nuttin' lookin' back atcha So you open up your freeza and say 'God, please' I wish we had some more of this government cheese I'm duckin' buckshots, see, walkin' on my knees Ain't no trees, the grass ain't green And when I say it's all bad, you know what I mean There's One In Every Family- what? A Fiend And a basketball star with no team, no dreams Remember good times? JJ and Michael? And all the lil' thangs they went through despite Nobody in the projects gave a fuck Ain't no good, it's all badluck, shucks, shoppin' poppin' Back up on all the scene, from the George Down, PJ's, Cali or projects And the Cabrini Greens, my niggas get wild on they ass We like to pow-pow on they ass Here's a toast to the coast, so take a blast From the projects to the upper deck, upper class A long way from where I come from I know where I'm at, nigga, I can't forget where I came from [Chorus] [Repeat to fade] Life in the projects [Adlibs] Yeah I know all them real niggas out there that's livin' they life in the projects That's going through that bullshit, why'know I know how why'all niggas feel Nigga, Doggy Dogg for ya pain It's like I'm livin' in the motherfuckin' projects, too why'know what I'm sayin'? They want why'all to throw me out my state So, fuck I might as well move back in the projects That's where my real niggas at any motherfuckin' way I gotta get mine, I gotta get mine Life in the projects Nigga, better get yours 'cause I'ma get mine Life in the projects, feel me? You better get yours 'cause I'ma get mine Life in the projects, yeah You better get yours 'cause I'ma get mine Life in the projects, yeah We out, we out