The Ghetto

[00:05.59] Talking 'bout the ghetto
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[00:10.67] Funky, funky ghetto
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[00:15.43] Trying to survive
[00:19.03] Trying to stay alive
[00:20.73] The ghetto
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[00:25.61] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[00:30.50] The ghetto (hmm)
[00:35.21] The ghetto (funky, funky ghetto)
[00:39.34] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.78] Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.15] Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.12] Every day it's the same
[00:48.23] And it's the same every night
[00:49.48] I wouldn't shoot you, bro, but I'd shoot that fool
[00:51.70] If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.30] Every day I wonder just how I'll die
[00:56.73] Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.37] There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.36] And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:03.99] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.22] Might deal me some dope, but then crime don't pay
[01:08.88] Black man tried to break in my house again
[01:11.18] Thought he got off the dope doing time in the pen
[01:13.57] Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.13] I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the ghetto
[01:18.34] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[01:23.24] The ghetto (funky, funky ghetto)
[01:27.97] The ghetto (trying to live our lives)
[01:32.75] The ghetto (won't ya tell 'em 'bout it, Too $hort?)
[01:37.50] So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:39.79] 'Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:42.33] Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
[01:44.66] She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
[01:47.40] 600 million on a football team
[01:49.37] And her baby died just like a dope fiend
[01:52.08] The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.21] Five kids in the house, no food to eat
[01:56.67] Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.41] Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.56] Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:04.05] She'd rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.46] I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:08.88] I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:10.97] Instead of adding to the task force, send some help
[02:13.75] Waiting on him, I'd better help myself
[02:16.18] Housing authority and the O.P.D
[02:18.67] All these guns just to handle me in the ghetto
[02:20.78] The ghetto (people are dying)
[02:25.54] The ghetto (children are crying)
[02:30.33] The ghetto (don't have enough to eat)
[02:35.19] The ghetto (don't even have shoes on their feet)
[02:39.97] The ghetto
[02:44.02] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:46.97] We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.52] Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:52.16] Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.00] We use alias names like Too $hort
[02:56.97] Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.14] Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.56] Didn't teach him in school, now he's slangin' dope
[03:03.87] Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.12] But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.59] In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.34] All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.42] You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:15.88] Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.23] Like me, but you don't see
[03:20.64] Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:23.05] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[03:25.53] Trying to get out of the ghetto
[03:27.99] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[03:30.19] But I got no place to go
[03:32.69] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[03:34.56] Trying to survive in the heart of the ghetto
[03:37.46] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[03:38.54] Ha, 'cause that's the only place that I know
[03:42.45] So much game in a Too $hort rap
[03:44.94] Can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:47.32] Why you wanna act like someone else?
[03:49.77] All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:51.98] We're all the same color underneath
[03:54.20] Short dog is in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:56.95] Never be ashamed of what you are
[03:59.20] Proud to be black, stand tall at heart
[04:01.48] Even though some people give you no respect
[04:03.87] Be intelligent, when you put 'em in check
[04:06.17] 'Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:08.48] And when they throw you in jail, you got nothing to say
[04:11.13] So if you don't listen, it's not my fault
[04:13.71] I'll be getting paid and you'll be paying the cost
[04:16.13] Sitting in the jailhouse, running your mouth
[04:18.31] While me and my people try to get out
[04:20.62] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:23.33] Talking 'bout the ghetto
[04:25.44] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:27.84] Funky, funky ghetto
[04:30.21] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:32.96] Trying to survive
[04:34.99] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:37.76] Trying to stay alive
[04:39.80] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:42.47] Funky, funky ghetto
[04:44.55] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:47.38] Got no place else to go
[04:49.44] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
[04:53.32] Trying to stay alive
[04:54.23] The ghetto (talking 'bout the ghetto)
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