Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, we livin
I know how it feel to wake up up broke as hell, another rock to sell People look at you like youse the Selling drugs to all the losers, mad buddha But they don't know about stress-filled day on the way mad bills to pay That's why you Tanqueray; so you can reminisce and wish, you wasn't so devilish, ssshit I I was just like you blunts with my crew, flippin over 62's Cause G-E-D, B-I-G I had to get P-A-I-D, that's why my hate me She was to kick me out, no doubt Then I figured out licks went for twenty South Packed up my for my raw power move nineteen for casket and flower moves for chumps tryin to my flow And what they know will show on the autopsy Went to see Papi, to cop me a for some consignment and he wasn't tryin to hear it Smoking mad Newport's cause I'm due in for an assault, that I caught, in Bridgeport, New Catch me if you can like the Man You better your gat in hand, cause man ( you betta your gat in hand cause man )
Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, we livin
Our be close captioned to fatal attractions Pictures of actions be back in the midst of No fairy tales for young black male Some see me stranded in land of hell, jail, and crack sales Hustlin' and heart be a culture or the repercutions while bustin' on backstabbin' my soul for material wishes, fast cars and bitches Wishin' I my life a legend, immortalized in pictures Why tears? Save your sympathy My childhood were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetary Here's a message to the newborns, to breathe If you believe then you can Just at me Against all odds, life is hard we carry on Livin' in the projects, broke no lights on To all the that follow me your essence Born with less, but you still
Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we Gun every night in the (ghetto) Crooked cops on in the (ghetto) Every day is a in the (ghetto) (oh oh oh oh oh) (ghetto) Got to feed in the (ghetto) Selling and weed in the (ghetto) Every day bleed in the (ghetto) (oh oh oh oh oh) (ghetto)
I had the plan I'm in the on my way to Maryland with my man Two-Tecs to take this projects They him Two-Tecs, he tote two tecs And when he start to bust he like to ask, Who's At last, I'm loungin black Sittin back, countin double digit thousand See who got smoked, rumors was spread Last I I was dead
Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto, Ghetto we Cause thats the life your in the (ghetto) oh in the (ghetto) or in the (ghetto, ghetto) Thats the life ur in the (ghetto)oh in the (ghetto) or in the (ghetto, ghetto, ghetto)
(talking) It's a thing i kinda realized how powerful 2pac and i was u kno what i'm saying cuz pac is a strong yo i kno him we two individual we waged a coastal but even tho we were going thru our drama i would never wish death on nobody cuz aint no comin bac