Habitat

Home, place where someone lives, a residence

The physical structure within, which one lives, such as a house

A dwelling place with a social unit that occupies it

A household

An environment offerin' security and happiness

The higher place, a native habitat

Place where something is discovered, founded, developed, or promoted

A source, a headquarters, home base

And, or related to a team's place of origin

On an entry point on which something is directed

To the center or the heart

I came up in the street around some real wild brothers

With more than one name and more than one baby mother

More than one case, been on more than one run

Got more than one enemy and more than one gun

For what now? All that's left to want is more

While them cats who's less privileged is just more raw

Less space 'cause the projects laced with more flaws

Less sleep 'cause the nights ain't peace, it's more war

The can is raw like thirsty, rainy season thunder claps

On the block with your old pop pleadin' number act

To the spot with the red top fiends is huddled at

To the crib where the little kids spend they summer trapped

With the jungle cats, lions and tigers, leopards and cheetahs

For gazelles, you get chased like a zebra, they blaze cheeba-cheeba

And dominate the weaker on the street

Hungry bellies only love what they eat and it's hard to compete

When they smilin' with your heart in they teeth

And the odds is stacked high beyond and beneath

Son, I've been plenty places in my life and time

And regardless where home is, son, home is mine

We all got to have

To a place that we come from

This place that we come from called is called home

We set out on our travels

We do the best we can

We travel this big earth and we roam

We all got to have

Some place that we come from

I said the place that we come from is called home

Even though we may love

This place that's on the map

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Some people live out (New York City, yeah)

Some people live in (Atlanta, ha-ha, ha-ha)

Some people got to live (Chicago)

Some people do live (Miami)

And all my people that live (California)

And other people got to live (London)

And everybody got to live in the whole big world

Together, just you and me

When I think of home, my remembrance of my beginnin'

Laundromat helping Ma Duke fold the bed linen

Chillin' front my buildin' with my brother and them

Spendin' nights in Bushwick with my cousins and them

Wild stylin' at Beat Street

Federal relief (Ha-ha)

Slowly meltin' in the mornin' grits we used to eat (Right)

Stickin' to your teeth, and teeth is hard to keep

With every flavor Now & Later, only a dime, a piece

Old timers on the bench playin' cards and things (Right)

Tellin' tales about they used to be involved in things

Start the drinkin', talkin' loud, cussin' up, and showin' out

Get the phone, call the cops, pick 'em up, move 'em out (Ooh-ooh, ah)

And it's all too common to start wildin'

I'ma pirate on an island seekin' treasure known as silence

And it's hard to find

Block parties in dark lobbies

Funeral homes packed, but only dark bodies

I can't sleep hardly, stirred up like Bob Marley

Marley Marl played the symphony, memory recalls

Son, I've been to many places in my space and time

And whatever my home is, son, home is mine

We all got to have

To a place that we come from

This place that we come from is called home

We set out on our travels

We do the best we can

We travel this big earth and we roam

Said, we all got to have

Some place that we come from

This place that we come from is called home

Even though we may love

This place that's on the map

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Where you hang your hat

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Where you hang your hat

Said, it ain't where you from

It's where you at

Where you hang your hat

It ain't where you from

It's where you at

Where you at

It's where you at