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Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto |
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Trying to survive, trying to stay alive |
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The ghetto |
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{Talking bout the ghetto} |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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{Funk funky ghetto} |
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Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out |
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Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths |
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Old school buddies not doing it right |
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Every day it's the same |
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And it's the same every night |
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I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool |
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If he played me close and tried to test my cool |
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Every day I wonder just how I'll die |
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Only thing I know is how to survive |
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There's only one rule in the real world |
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And that's to take care of you, only you and yours |
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Keep dealing with the hard times day after day |
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Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay |
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Black man tried to break into my house again |
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Thought he got off early doing time in the pen |
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Even though my brothers do me just like that |
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I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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So just peep the game and don't call it crap |
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Cause to me, life is one hard rap |
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Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine |
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She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed |
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600 million on a footbal team |
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And her baby dies just like a dope fiend |
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The story I tell is so incomplete |
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Five kids in the house and no food to eat |
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Don't look at me and don't ask me why |
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Mama's next door getting high |
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Even though she's got five mouths to feed |
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She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T |
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I always tell the truth about things like this |
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I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list |
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Instead of adding to the task force send some help |
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Waiting on him I'd better help myself |
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Housing Authority and the O.P.D. |
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All these guns just to handle me in the |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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Even though they put us down and call us animals |
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We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes |
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Drive fancy cars, make love to stars |
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Never really saying just who we are |
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We use alias names like TOOSHORT |
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Sell you stuff you might kill for |
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Young kids grow up and that's all they know |
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Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope |
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Only thing he knows is how to survive |
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But will he kill another brother before he dies? |
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In the ghetto, you keep one eye open |
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All day long, just hoping and hoping |
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You can pay your bills and not drink too much |
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Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up |
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Like me, but you don't see |
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Ten years from now, where will you be? |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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So much game in a Too rap |
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Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black |
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Why you wanna act like someone else? |
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All you gotta do is just be yourself |
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We're all the same color underneath |
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Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me |
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Never be ashamed of what you are |
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Proud to be black stand tall at heart |
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Even though some people give you no respect |
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Be intelligent, when you put em in check |
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Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way |
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And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say |
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So if you don't listen it's not my fault |
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I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost |
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Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth |
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While me and my peoples try to get out |
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The ghetto |
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The ghetto |
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