[Intro]
  [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