Yeah
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
Welcome to the ghetto where forever be the same
Hard times got my people unable to maintain
Every time I look around, it's somebody doing bad
That'll put you in the grave for som'ing they never had
Everyday in the hood it be the same thang
Poverty running my people, so they love pain
And I don't know if it's wrong but still I know it ain't right
I seen a lot of people die in the street life
The other day it hit my heart, when I watch the news
A lil' girl got killed while she was 'sleep in her room
And she ain't deserve to die 'cause that's a kid dog
Them n***as took the life that she ain't get to live at all
Sometimes I wanna help the ghetto but it ain't gon' do a thang
'Cause I know that they ignant and that's a goddamn shame
It's an everyday task trying to live a good life
Inside of the ghetto where everybody be shife
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
Welcome to the South, n***as ain't sleep at all
Ery'body out on the block, stay ducking them laws
A couple n***as on parole, hustling by the sto'
I'm telling that ain't the way to go, play your role
But you don't hear me though, this what I'm living fo'
Hustle till I get mine, grind 'cause I need mo'
Shots release, too late for you to scream peace
This how it is in the street, leaving is obsolete
And still I maintain, seeing the same thang
Sometime I scream, my brain just looking for a change
But day in and day out, I move in and move out
Keep my bidness discrete, I'm on a paper route
I wasn't broke for nothing, still I was learning some'ing
If you ain't been through nothing then you ain't seen nothing
This how it really is, around my way
Where anybody can get it anytime of the day
I analyze the block, babies are running 'round with Glocks
Dope in they socks, can't skip hot, so fuck the cops
Moving from crumbs to bricks, n***a these slums are thick
I try to tell my lil' n***as but they think they slick
These white folks don't play, they gon' hot your way
They try to give you twenty years, just for living the wrong way
And who's to say now-a-day, right from wrong
They ain't living how we live, so they can't get in my zone
We get chased home for stones, and laws wanna break our bones
In places in and out a high cell to roam
And that's prolly the reason we going crazy
Pissed at poverty, 'cause the system trying to fade me
Lately I've been trying to stay out of trouble
But it's hard to stop from copping, the sack and flipping the double
Don't catch the wrong route when you on that Metro
There's a sign in front of the hood that says Welcome To the Ghetto
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
But b-burning down the b-block, I put the petal to the medal
Running with my cousins in Texas, Lil' Cross and Big Money
My n***a Trae and Lil' Joe, n***a all action
In the ghetto, I've been riding through the hood for years
And ain't a damn thang changed, mama still shedding tears
N***as fresh out the Penn, some n***as just going in
Some n***as gon run and stutter, turning they self in
Never seen a black man, flying dope on a plane
But they lock us up for it, shackle us with chains
Welcome to the ghetto, ghetto starts and mob cars
With bullet holes in it, n***as shot up and scarred
But still living, driven by the game itself
To stay alive in these cold streets, mashing for wealth
Up in this ghetto, O.G.'s P's and C's
Thugs, pimps, playas hit the 6-4's or 3's
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world
In the ghetto
(In the ghetto)
It's a struggle but I gotta maintain
Yeah, ghetto ghetto life
Of mine, li-li-li-life, life
(Welcome to the ghetto)