Al "Purple" Hayes - Once Upon a Time in the Projects lyrics

Once upon a time in the projects, yo I damn near had to wreck a ho I knocked on the door - "Who is it?" It's Ice Cube, come to pay a little visit to ya And what's up with the n***as in the parking lot She said "f** em, cause they get sparked alot" I sat on the couch but it wasn't stable And then I put my Nikes on the coffee table Her brother came in, he's into g**nin Cause he walked up and said "What set you claimin?" I don't bang I write the good rhymes The whole scenery reminded me of Good Times I don't like to feel that I'm put in a rut By a young n***a that needs to pull his pants up He threw up a set and then he was gone I'm thinkin to myself, won't this b**h bring her a** on Her mother came in with a joint in her mouth And fired up the sess, it was sess no doubt She said please excuse my house and all that I said yeah cause I was buzzed from the contact Lookin at a f**ed up black and white Her mom's b**hin cause the county check wasn't right She had another brother that was three years old And had a bad case of the runny nose He asked me who I was then I had to pause It smelled like he took a sh** in his little drawers I saw her sister who really needs her a** kicked Only thirteen and already pregnant I grabbed my forty out the bag and took a swig Cause I was getting overwhelmed by BeBe Kids They was runnin' and yellin' and playin' and cussin' And tellin' and look at this young punk bailin' I heard a knock on the door without the pa**word And her mom's got the 12 guage Mossberg The n***a said "yo, what's for sale" And the b**h came out with a bag of yayo She made the drop and got the 20 dollars From a smoked-out fool with ring around the collar The girl I was waiting for came out I said "b**h, I didn't know this was a crack house" I got my coat and suddenly ... (police breaking into house annoucing themselves) The cop busted in and had a Mac-10 pointed at my dome And I said to myself once again it's on He threw me on the carpet and wasn't cuttin no slack Jumped on my head and put his knee in my back First he tried to slap me up, wrap me up, rough me up They couldn't do it so they cuffed me up I said fu*k how much abuse can a n***a take Hey yo officer you're making a big mistake Since I had on a shirt that said I was dope He thought I was selling base and couldn't hear my case He said "Get out my face" and musta had a grudge His reply, "Tell that bullsh** to the judge" The girl I was with wasn't sayin nothin' I said "Aiyyo b**h you better tell em somethin'" She started draggin and all of a sudden We all got tossed in the paddy wagon Now I beat the rap but that ain't the point I had a warrant so I spent 2 weeks in the joint Now the story you heard has one little object: Don't f** with a b**h from the projects