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

Cuz 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

Cuz 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 cuz 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 cuz 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, y'know

I know how y'all niggas feel

Nigga, Doggy Dogg for ya pain

It's like I'm livin' in the motherfuckin' projects, too

Y'know what I'm sayin'?

They want y'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 cuz I'ma get mine

Life in the projects, feel me?

You better get yours cuz I'ma get mine

Life in the projects, yeah

You better get yours cuz I'ma get mine

Life in the projects, yeah

We out, we out