PJ's
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Wyclef Jean, Governor, Prolific
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(upbeat music)
♪ Oooh ♪
♪ Mmmmmmmmh, yeah ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I was born in the PJ's ♪
♪ So I gotta rep for the PJ's ♪
♪ The elevators with the pissy hallways ♪
♪ Bangin' on the project walls all day ♪
♪ Yo, if it wasn't for the PJ's ♪
♪ Y'all probably never heard of me ♪
♪ Y'all be like who the hell
is Wyclef and what's a Fugee ♪
♪ I'd probably be standin' on
a corner, watch you approach ♪
♪ Steal ya (censored),
sell ya (censored) ♪
♪ Then snatch ya rope ♪
♪ Run for brokes with
the cash and the jewels ♪
♪ Bows eye, I hold my
breath when I (censored) ♪
♪ The reason you should hold ya breath ♪
♪ 'Cause most thugs when
they breathe and (censored) ♪
♪ They (censored) right
but (censored) left ♪
♪ Now they flesh being
swept off the surface ♪
♪ If you ain't B.I.G,
you ain't Notorious ♪
♪ So why ya man reckless ♪
♪ Side-ballin' like he
holdin' (censored) ♪
♪ Someone bring him a bed
for (censored) sleep ♪
♪ Weight beneath Jacob's
Latter and the Aftermath ♪
♪ Don't matter if you use a
(censored) as your armor ♪
♪ Blood splatter, glass shatter
through the project slums ♪
♪ Another one in the
obituary column, son ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I was born in the PJ's ♪
♪ So I gotta rep for the PJ's ♪
♪ The elevators with the pissy hallways ♪
♪ Bangin' on the project walls all day ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I gotta make noise ♪
♪ For the PJ's ♪
♪ Wrote my first rhyme in the PJ's ♪
♪ You can hear it in my
speech, I'm from the PJ's ♪
♪ The PJ's, PJ's ♪
♪ Before I was signed, I
used to move on the block ♪
♪ All I wanted to do was
rhyme, rhyme, rhyme ♪
♪ Line for line, I make
the blind man walk ♪
♪ In a straight line to prison ♪
♪ And take a message to Shyne ♪
♪ Peace, God from the
PJ's to Ground Zero ♪
♪ It's a "Hard knock Life" ♪
♪ But "The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow" ♪
♪ Walk with a shadow through ghettos ♪
♪ Playin' in every borough ♪
♪ You would think rap was rock,
the way I carry heavy metal ♪
♪ It such a shame, cocaine in ya veins ♪
♪ Screamin' "Team Spirit" ♪
♪ Grippin' the shottie like Kurt Cobain ♪
♪ In the PJ's God, nuttin' come easy ♪
♪ Gotta deal with the
grimy, greasy, the sleazy ♪
♪ Move like a professional,
young thug funeral ♪
♪ Wattchu thought this was
another Pepsi commercial ♪
♪ Nah, it's the art of war,
when you least expected it ♪
♪ Wyclef the president,
the PJ's elected him ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I was born in the PJ's ♪
♪ So I gotta rep for the PJ's ♪
♪ The elevators with the pissy hallways ♪
♪ Bangin' on the project walls all day ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I gotta make noise ♪
♪ For the PJ's ♪
♪ Wrote my first rhyme in the PJ's ♪
♪ You can hear it in my
speech, I'm from the PJ's ♪
♪ The PJ's, PJ's ♪
♪ Yeah and to the teachers
that said I wouldn't live ♪
♪ And my remains would be found
under the Verizano Bridge ♪
♪ Well I'm alive teacher,
so put ya theory to rest ♪
♪ I ain't Makaveli but
I might fake my death ♪
♪ Make no mistake, I'm a hip-hop artist ♪
♪ Before the diamond in the
Billboard, the hood charted it ♪
♪ Suburbia bought it, we bootlegged it ♪
♪ We couldn't afford it ♪
♪ 'Cause in the PJ's, we
underground like black markets ♪
♪ The 'P' stand for public housing ♪
♪ The 'R's for respect that ya
get when ya hold down ya set ♪
♪ The 'O's for (censored)
that we flip into (censored) ♪
♪ The 'J's for the judgment
handed by the jury ♪
♪ The 'E' is for enter at your own risk ♪
♪ You know the 'C', that's for the cats ♪
♪ That's out to get rich ♪
♪ And the 'T', trust no one ♪
♪ And the 'S' for the snitches,
you know the outcome ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I was born in the PJ's ♪
♪ So I gotta rep for the PJ's ♪
♪ The elevators with the pissy hallways ♪
♪ Bangin' on the project walls all day ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ I gotta make noise ♪
♪ For the PJ's ♪
♪ Wrote my first rhyme in the PJ's ♪
♪ You can hear it in my
speech, I'm from the PJ's ♪
♪ The PJ's ♪
♪ PJ's ♪
♪ Everyone wants to be a cowboy ♪
(indistinct)
♪ On a pissy hallway ♪
♪ By my side, do he live ♪
(indistinct)
♪ Cowboy ♪
