| It may take a long time but my house will last forever
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| And it will have been worth it
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| What are you going to build your house with?
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| Yo I’m stayin' where we gettin' crazy love
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| My noisy neighbors live just above me
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| Up in 13-A, there’s drama everyday
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| The Super say he gon' fix the heat for sure
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| Tchk, I done heard it five times before three locks on every door
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| 'Cause some folks got the tendency to take
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| It ain’t Beverly Hills, more like Stephanie Mills
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| I never knew love like this could ever exist
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| Four corners in your metropolis yo it’s the PJays pah
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| We exquisite like cars made in foreign see ain’t a day out here
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| Ever boring where gunshots keep you up instead of heavy snoring
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| Pipes dripping, instead of rivers pouring
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| The elevator’s broken down
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| (Damn!)
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| And man I’m needin' a lift
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| Thank God we don’t stay up on the twenty-fifth floor
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| Yo we ain’t always at war it’s a lot about the Projects
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| I do adore
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| But you wouldn’t understand it the PJays is like another planet
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| Heavy like granite you wouldn’t understand it
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| The cops will catch you drawers down red-handed, it’s outlandish
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| But you wouldn’t understand it the PJays is like another planet
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| You wouldn’t understand it the cops will catch you drawers down
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| Red-handed, it’s outlandish yo it’s the PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from where we live is called the Projects)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from you might, might, might, might get done)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from where we live is called the Projects)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from what was that you said?)
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| Come to our projects bout fo' in the morning
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| So I can tell you what be goin' on there
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| One block gunshots some hot stuff
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| Sell it to you for a buck, boy that ain’t enough
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| Handcuffs on your brother man my wife’s wonderin'
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| When you gonna fix that tenant’s plumbing man?
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| I’m tired this ghetto’s cool but it’s on fire
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| I see this fool with a crack pipe, lookin' wired
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| Hookers for hire, look at the plywood
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| (What, look)
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| On the building where termites is living
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| (EW)
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| My wife sleeps peacefully, it ain’t easy to me
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| 'Cause I’m tripping off these peoples with they thievery
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| Black white Chicano, hell if I know
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| Every guy know about the stolen cell phone
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| I got the hook up police got me shook up in court, can’t even fart
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| It’s okay though, I got the building, that pay dough
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| But some tenants act like they can say no
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| (Hey)
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| I’m gettin' older in my years feel me? |
| I got a folder worth of fears
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| (Yup)
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| But it’s cool, we gotta make it better don’t take my sweater
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| (Make it better, c’mon)
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| Y’all make my head hurt I ain’t even gonna finish this song
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| It’s too long I’ma watch Cops, in my La-Z-Boy, in my thong
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| But you wouldn’t understand it the PJays is like another planet
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| Heavy like granite you wouldn’t understand it
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| The cops will catch you drawers down red-handed, it’s outlandish
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| But you wouldn’t understand it the PJays is like another planet
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| You wouldn’t understand it the cops will catch you drawers down
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| Red-handed, it’s outlandish yo it’s the PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from where we live is called the Projects)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from you might, might, might, might get done)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from where we live is called the Projects)
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| The PJays
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| ('Cause where I come from what was that you said?) |