[Chorus]

(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 this life

Some way we gotta make it up out this life



[Jay-Z]

Weather 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



[Chorus]

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

Some way I gotta make it up out this hood someday



[Beanie Sigel]

[Talking:] 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 steamers trying to relax but I can't

I lean up ain't the L or the refer 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)

Thats how I feel for them

And we gotta grip the shorties on the block

All they do is smoke weed and drink forties

Cop their quarties

Enough to get the latest ROC, newest glock, and old Jordies



[Chorus]

Some how some way

We gonna make it up out the hood someday

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



[Scarface]

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 (?) get 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



[Chorus]

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



[Whistling]