[Intro: Ron Artest]
Yeah this is Ron Artest from the Chicago Bulls
Straight outta QB. Repping my hood forever
Just showing anybody that anybody can make it

[Hook: Nas]
To the kids in the p.j.'s
Ghetto children I know it ain't easy
Ya'll wanting millions
Sunshine turns to rain
Its ghetto pain
When a one time raise
Sometimes the young is slain

To the kids in the p.j.'s black babies
Brought up in this world where it's wild and crazy child of the Nile
Future lifestyle looks hazey
Dreams to drive a Mercedes
With a pile of ladies

[Nas]
Third grade singing star spangled banner
Using proper manners
Learnt to handle anger animal behavior
Later on my block rocking with my Jox on
Eating Bon Ton cheese popcorn
Humming a KISS rock song
Socks long to my knees
Summer breeze running through the leaves
Playing freeze tag
Can I stay out please dad
Can I hang out with my little gang out
Hearing shots rang out
Heard my moms call my name out
Come upstairs run up stairs
Take a bath shit stained underwear
Wipe yourself with paper bad
Little ass in my bed at 8:30 wash my plate
Ate dinner up late
Gazing at the wall praying basketball
Was my future for this young one
Hooping in the sun
Proud to be where I come from
Later shooting guns
Fantasized, fascinated by gold rope chains
Looking back at my hood days
But things ain't changed
[Hook]

[Millenium Thug]

In my hood n***as smoke wood
Nothing is good
Look at my eyes and see what I could
Living my life and feel what I felt
The hand that I was dealt
Drama that my uncle Shabazz had
I was a little lad
N***as shooting through my Grams window shattering glass
Had the chicken pox
On that toy horse that rocks
My moms grabbed me down to safety
Everybody in the crib was going crazy
That was in the 80's
And now im 17
Money cash dreams
N***as be slave
I be brave spit like A.K.'s and S.K.'s
Close range n***as see brains
Millenium Thugs the name
But now it's slash cocaine
Blast n***as in vain
Snatch yo' chain
Cherrish the life
My n***as got a fetish for ice
Turn out the lights
I bust so I could spark up the night
Uniting the pipes
Queensbridge n***as is sheist
Need no price body yall dudes on spite
Who knew I would of spazzed out
Little Nashawn owner of the crack house
Get my papes on
Tired of empty 'friderators all the steaks gone
[Wiz]
Now picture this shit
With six Aunts five Uncles
Thugging a double apartment out
Kids, cousins, and brothers
There I go in the pamper by the radiator
Cursing eatin first
Little n***a with a appetite that got worst
First day of school ten man clique
All I'm learning is how to extort shit
'cuz class I forefit
Graduated on another level
Selling birds busting dirty birds
Fuck with the herbs
Never we fuck up the herbs
Make 'em pay like you
Stick 'em up get down
Since ten was taught to turn 'em around
Rip they pockets out
Bust two they way they run
I ain't give a fuck that's how I was
I was young

[Hook]

[Horse]
Horse was born as a brave child
Big for my size
A bully to little guys
With chocolate miks and apple pies
The playground was mine
I stayed scarred up all the time
From shopping carts flipping
Now we race to the finish line
Hated playing cooties 'cuz that shit wasn't fun
All the honey's say I'm it then they little ass run
I sweared to put a hickey on the ones
That I caught
I was a nasty little n***a I learned to hump before I walk
Kept a sling shot on my side to shoot
Squirrles and cats
Wanted to be Captain America with the
Shield and the hat
I started getting older fell more in love with the streets
Infactuated by the ropes and the shiny
Gold teeth
I was to big to break dance
Fuck spiining on my back
My role models now run numbers and sell
Crack
This project child is blessed chasing ghetto success
He needs a name for himself
To get the same respect