Various Artists - Life in the Projects lyrics

[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 g**n n***a 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? sh**, Michael Jordan don't come through I bet the n***a 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 d**h 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 motherf**er- 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 gra** 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 gra** 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 f** 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 n***as get wild on they a** We like to pow-pow on they a** Here's a toast to the coast, so take a blast ]From the projects to the upper deck, upper cla** A long way from where I come from I know where I'm at, n***a, I can't forget where I came from [Chorus] [Repeat to fade] Life in the projects [Adlibs] Yeah I know all them real n***as out there that's livin' they life in the projects That's going through that bullsh**, y'know I know how y'all n***as feel n***a, Doggy Dogg for ya pain It's like I'm livin' in the motherf**in' projects, too Y'know what I'm sayin'? They want y'all to throw me out my state So, f** I might as well move back in the projects That's where my real n***as at any motherf**in' way I gotta get mine, I gotta get mine Life in the projects n***a, 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