Some How Some Way

[Chorus: Jay-Z]

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, c'mon

Some how, some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some way

We gotta make it up out this life

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]

Whether 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'll kill a muh'fucker

I don't always wanna be this drug dealing muh'fucker, damn

Wish I could take us all

On this magic carpet ride through the sky

I, used to play the hall and fifth floor

Me and my boys, we all poor, getting high

I, seen the worst of the worst

I deserve every blessing I receive, 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 that the sun'll shine through and

Touch my soul, take hold of my hand

Look man, a tree grows in Brooklyn

[Chorus: Jay-Z]

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, c'mon

Some way

I gotta make it up out the hood some day

[Interlude: Beanie Sigel]

To Lil' Nell, Sigel Street, I ain't forget you

[Verse 2: Beanie Sigel]

Twenty niggas on the block tryna chase that buck

Nosey neighbors and haters keep they face on stuck

Cops roll up on the pavement, break the dice games up

Moms smoke, kids can't chase the ice cream truck

Girls fighting over rope, the young boys hype things up

Niggas fighting over coke, the young boys light things up

All the petty ass wars fuck the night scene up

'Member Lil' Eddie draw, man, how he light Mean up?

Then they wonder why we light green up

Back to back steam up, try to relax but I can't, I lean up

Ain't the L or the reefer that steam up (That steam up)

It's my head and I'm stressed to the point I get a fever

Thinking 'bout the block and all the mothers and the kids

That can't leave and how the chinks gotta feed 'em

For the rest of they life

Fucking wings, fried vegetable rice

Gotta be kidding, no breakfast, Cap'n Crunch at night

How the kids eating lunch at night?

In they 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)

That's how I feel for them

We gotta grip of shorties on the block

All they do is smoke weed and drink 40s, cop they lil quarties

Enough to get the latest Roc, newest Glock, old Jordies

[Chorus: Beanie Sigel]

Some how, some way

We gon' make it up out this hood one day

Some how, some way

We gon' make it up out this life, yeah

And some how, some way

We gon' make it up out the hood one day

Some way

We gon' make it up out this life

[Verse 3: Scarface]

Right here's another lil' story 'bout this clique I claimed

Another chapter based on how I get that game

Just hanging round my neighborhood, bang my street

Sit and watch the passerbys play my sweep

Southside, Sunnyside is the blocks I run

South Acres, South Park, niggas all got guns

Over here we got this code Charlie, get that there

We know tomorrow ain't a promise so we get that now

Fuck sitting in the living room, guarding the steps

Working inside a smoke house, starving to death

Serving these niggas flippers, quarter-ounces and jippers

Agents snapping your picture, neighbors plotting to get ya

Situations a critic, I was out here be getting it

Living it like a savage 'cause nigga I gotta have it

They holding back on a motherfucker, I'm in it for the haul dawg

Erase enough to walk it down and fuck it all y'all

The Lord be a-willing and the creek don't rise

I'ma be a nigga and these streets gon' rise

(Some how, some way, some how, some way)

I'ma be a nigga and these streets gon' rise (Some how, some way)

[Chorus: Jay-Z]

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, c'mon

Some how, some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some way

We gotta make it up out this life

[Outro]