[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]