[Thurgood of PJ's]
 Yeah  get up  get down
 That's what P Funk say

 [Snoop]
 Get your money man  it's hard out there
 It's hard out there  dogg
 What  yeah  huh
 Get yours  get yours  get yours

 Shootin' dice on length with a couple of G's
 Dust off my knees  twist off my cap and breathe
 Jump in the six four  sittin' on D
 Spit a few caps at my enemies
 Please  freeze  there's a new sheriff in town
 Livin' in the projects, Dogg Pound Pound
 No father figure, just gangbang nigga
 Cuz they give it up quicker and they learn to pull a trigger
 All role models on TV
 Most of us ain't got a TV, you feel me?
 Shit, Michael Jordan don't come through
 I bet the nigga get the money when it time to sell his shoe
 I'm telling you, I ain't puttin' him down
 Cuz I love him to death but I ain't ever seen him in my town
 But you could see Snoop Dogg everyday
 I'm boss to the blocks like the projects in the PJ's
 Yeah, for those of you who don't know
 This is the land of the scandalous and cut throats
 Child support- that's unheard of
 Number one crime in the motherfucker- murder
 Ya heard me? Hmm, I'ma stay down
 For the get down, from a puppy to the big dogg
 Put that on the penthouse
 Life in the projects, bang, bang, pow, pow
 Is how it sounds

 [Chorus]
 Life in the projects
 Where it's hard to get by
 But you got it cuz your spot's gettin' hotter
 Life in the projects
 Where grass is cheese and cheese is power
 Life in the projects
 Where you got to have the will to know how
 Know how to do what? Survive
 Life in the projects
 You got to get yours cuz I'ma get mine

 Life in the projects, goodness grief
 Everybody waitin' on the 1st and 15th
 The police man is tryin' to get atcha
 Catcha, snatcha, open up your fridge
 Nuttin' lookin' back atcha
 So you open up your freeza and say 'God, please'
 I wish we had some more of this government cheese
 I'm duckin' buckshots, see, walkin' on my knees
 Ain't no trees, the grass ain't green
 And when I say it's all bad, you know what I mean
 There's One In Every Family- what? A Fiend
 And a basketball star with no team, no dreams
 Remember good times? JJ and Michael?
 And all the lil' thangs they went through despite
 Nobody in the projects gave a fuck
 Ain't no good, it's all badluck, shucks, shoppin' poppin'
 Back up on all the scene, from the George Down, PJ's, Cali or projects
 And the Cabrini Greens, my niggas get wild on they ass
 We like to pow-pow on they ass
 Here's a toast to the coast, so take a blast
 >From the projects to the upper deck, upper class
 A long way from where I come from
 I know where I'm at, nigga, I can't forget where I came from

 [Chorus]

 [Repeat to fade]
 Life in the projects

 [Adlibs]
 Yeah
 I know all them real niggas out there that's livin' they life in the projects
 That's going through that bullshit, y'know
 I know how y'all niggas feel
 Nigga, Doggy Dogg for ya pain
 It's like I'm livin' in the motherfuckin' projects, too
 Y'know what I'm sayin'?
 They want y'all to throw me out my state
 So, fuck
 I might as well move back in the projects
 That's where my real niggas at any motherfuckin' way
 I gotta get mine, I gotta get mine
 Life in the projects
 Nigga, better get yours cuz I'ma get mine
 Life in the projects, feel me?
 You better get yours cuz I'ma get mine
 Life in the projects, yeah
 You better get yours cuz I'ma get mine
 Life in the projects, yeah
 We out, we out