Artist: Papoose Album: The Nacirema Dream Song: Mother Ghetto Typed by: Gemini_20502K@Yahoo.com [Intro: Papoose] Brooklyn! Rise to the occasion! BK! [Sample from "Live Freestyle 95" by Notorious B.I.G.] Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! [Verse One: Papoose] All the thoroughbred borough heads where y'all from?! All the hundred dollar billion villians where y'all from?! All the low-key OG's where y'all from?! Got a gat, cock it back, let me hear y'all gun Come and take a walk through my hood I'll guide your vision When niggas who ain't ready to die get shot for livin Stepped out the buildin another day my time still tickin But I had to make a U turn damn forgot the biscuit I stashed it on the side of the sink behind the dishes On sundays I praise gunplays, that's my religion Walkin down the block with a boppin rhythm Had to take a leak behind the green garbage can who need a pot to piss in?! That's when I bumped heads with my man, he out of prison Whattup son? Noticed the grill look kind of different He had a long scar on his face, somebody jigged him I got away when he got knocked, wish I was with him They put the green light out, know how the game go Niggas die for they colors, gotta respect the rainbow Take John through the slums just to get a collar they come Hoodlums threw they guns in the sewers and swallow they gum Snitches stoppin the funds when they hear the drama they run So we throw the slugs to their tumors and silence they tongues Raw ball heist, hand to hand is far more trife Customers be bangin on the spot doors all night I told the last customer yo next time knock light He knocked hard so I copped and took his hard knock life [Chorus: Papoose] The mother ghetto where the first thugs walk the crook bone My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam Y'all outsiders better look right don't look wrong My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam [Sample from "Live Freestyle 95" by Notorious B.I.G.] (Papoose) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!) [Verse Two: Papoose] Home of the tomahawks was money missin and drama talks And you can tell a nigga from Brooklyn just how he walks Them Brownsville dudes carry gas in they draws Come through rockin a rollie, better have it ensured East New Yorkers will stab a millionaire 'til he bleed riches Cop work from Uptown niggas, fuck Queens bitches Fort Greene killers run up in your livin room quick Them boys at Canarsie, see you lay your clique on the strip Nobody politics Bed-Stuy who cares for that political shit?! We're robbin dog for his Kibbles and bits Bushwick got beat cops they actin like they own the streets That's why we drop 'em like a verse and lay 'em on beat Celebrate easter goin to Coney Island with heat Just to have a slash out and bang it on the beach In Crown Heights they be workin them twos Red Hook hoodlums come around your way or put your turf on the news Downtown in Pitkin Ave got the flyest sneakers Youngins takin over trains cursin over the loudspeakers Flatbush they be totin, leave your top smokin Since the trains had tokens them boys kept the locin From LG to Albany we was born to be thorough Cypress Hill to Kingsborough but now we the king borough I'm from Bainbridge, we broke the law for the fun The cats at Marcy will make you cough up a lung Wherever you from, represent the hood you live But keep it that way, don't come across the Brooklyn Bridge [Chorus: Papoose] The mother ghetto where the first thugs walk the crook bone My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam Y'all outsiders better look right don't look wrong My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam [Sample from "Live Freestyle 95" by Notorious B.I.G.] (Papoose) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!) [Verse Three: Papoose] In the heaven of Bob, my hood them pearly gates is locked We the reason that cops traded 38's for glocks We the reason them cabs drive by, never trust you We the reason you couldn't rock shines in the tunnel Niggas be starin and walkin, lookin back But I rob a nigga blind and ask him what the fuck he lookin at?! Patrol cars just wanna get essential book in pack Don't get caught in the alleys with Brooklyn cats Face the fact that's what you worship, so I pray with my back towards the serpent Hit the underground and changed all the rappers to the circus Celebrated Ike after he was murdered Through tradition we had him cremated put the ashes in the stone and I wish I could've did magic when they burned him 'Cause the depths of the devilish fire within these matches don't deserve him Israelites stand on the ave of the earth with his staff givin summers Knowledge beneath the records of a target wrappings of a turban Security stay harassin and lurkin When a Brooklyn thug walk in the club bouncers ask us why they searchin us?! Why you pattin my burners? You actin like you nervous Make a mistake and get shot by accident on purpose 718, 187, y'all faggots must have heard us Our area code have the same factors of a murder Wherever you from, represent the hood you live We'll keep it that way, don't come around the Brooklyn Bridge [Chorus: Papoose] The mother ghetto where the first thugs walk the crook bone My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam Y'all outsiders better look right don't look wrong My borough led the thoroughbreds, Brooknam [Sample from "Live Freestyle 95" by Notorious B.I.G.] (Papoose) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!) Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! Where Brooklyn at?! (Brooknam!)