Welcome to Red Hook Houses

(Bazz talking) Come around my way (Welcome to Red Hook Houses) Come around my way (The home of Klein and Saye) Come take a ride with me (Matty Rich) Come get high with me (T.H.U.G. Angelz) And take y'all to a hood that's vibe (Carmelo Anthony) Show y'all mothafuckas what defines me (Uncle Cliff - Dumar) [Shabazz the Disciple] It's Red Hook, you know the name ring bells G.G. last stop, nigga welcome to hell It's like a maximum facility; your block is ya cell And yo we see mad niggas get bucked but never tell It's like a mandatory life no parole Under the Rico Law To land the glory trifling souls in them Puerto wars Bet on the cocoa, whole hood is flooded with Bloods and Locas Shorties will fuck you with two Sheikh's up in the cho cha The staircase's like the Juvi max, you be laugh This ain't a movie black, adolecents put 2 in ya coogie hat It's a booby trap and the lobby is known for robberies Flooded with felons and everybody selling and briberies Stuck you with the pistol, niggas will stick for the brick or crystal Slide up the chain and the ring and the shit off the wrist too Frisk ya, with the pop use the fifth and lift You pop the shit to whistle To increase the profit steering the fiscal Judges and prosecutors be trying to send us to God Cause they know when we pop them shooter yo we finish the job Trying to indict the whole operation But the 76 precinct don't be getting no cooperation And fuck the time we facing Catch you casing population The hood mentality max out like "Pappy" Mason When we pull it we use it, when we use it we mean it We keep a bullet for those who cross us and talkers who seen it This is the hood of the illest niggas who did it Few got away with it, some got indicted and some got acquitted You saw the article on Don Diva with the Godfather crime The Brooklyn Don for all you non-believers [Hell Razah] Welcome to Red Hook, this ain't Jamrock F train Smith and ninth get off last cart Nighttime playgrounds turning to coke spots 'Narcs on the rooftops photos snap shots Now they got cameras and RoboCop watch Crack head's brain dead that'll sell you an X-BOX Shell shocked grand-pops tatted his teardrops Blocks been locked before the Mayor was egg-cotch Now the rent is high, price offer it three strikes Whites wanna rename the Liberty Heist now Shooters on the dirt-bikes sending them kites now There's no more parole so they giving us life now (They give us 45 now) This be the home where Capone became Scarface And if you get in the cab it could be a car chase If you ain't walking with faith this is the wrong place Its pissy elevators and late court dates Tape 38's raping plenty weights They're still moving that weight from off the staircase It's crazy Joe Gallows, neighbors of Castellano You won't make it pass the Verrazano You move a ki like a grand piano Cause we them Red Hook Black Sopranos (Bazz talking) And Red Hook stand up And new project stand up And poor block stand up And welfare Allan stand up Flag pole stand up AVE. stand up The Sly town stand up Lorraine street, Paradise stand up (Razah talking) Yeah, 30 Woods stand up West ninth stand up 8-11 stand up Crazy corner stand up Paying place stand up Chavous block stand up New way stand up Red Hook stand up