In the Ghetto

Yeeeeah [Hook :x 2] In the ghetto, I'm living in a ghetto world In the ghetto (in the ghetto), it's a struggle but I gotta maintain [Trae] Welcome to the ghetto, where forever be the same Hard times, got my people unable to maintain Everytime 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 niggaz took the life, that she ain't get to live at all Sometimes I want to help the ghetto, but it ain't gon do a thang 'Cause I know that they ignant, and that's a god damn shame It's an everyday task, trying to live a good life Inside of the ghetto, where everybody be shife [Hook: x 2] [Yung Redd] Welcome to the South, niggaz ain't sleep at all Everybody out on the block, stay ducking them laws A couple niggaz 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get mine, grind cause I need mo' Shots release, too late for you to scream peace This how it is in the street, leaving is obsolete And still I maintain, seeing the same thang Sometime I scream, my brain just looking for a change But day in and day out, I move in and move out Keep my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 [Lil Boss] 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, nigga these slums are thick I try to tell my lil' niggaz, 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 want to 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 [Hook: x 2] [Spice 1] I wonder, if heaven got a ghetto But be -burning down the be -block, I put the petal to the medal Running with my cousins in Texas, Lil' Cross and Big Money My nigga Trae and Lil' Joe, nigga 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 Niggaz fresh out the Penn, some niggaz just going in Some niggaz 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, niggaz 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 see's Thugs, pimps, playas hit the 6-4's or 3's [Hook: x 2] Yeah, ghetto ghetto life Of mii-ine, li-li-li-life life (welcome to the ghetto)