[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