Ghetto Life

Don't say nothin', just listen

[Incomprehensible] all the bloodshed

And all the tears and all the homies I done lost

Ain't nothing like the ghetto if I had to do it all again

I probably wouldn't change a thingI live my life, homie but not for greed

Picture young sisters and brothers planting ghetto seeds

Ain't nothing promised in this ghetto but we lost 'cause we black

Picture 5 kids in the project in a one room shackI had big dreams of making it big

I caught nightmares of fools splittin' my wig

I couldn't change for the guppies that tried to hate

Picture me a ghetto child with a house by the lakeAin't nothing promised but we're not to blame

Sinning, to make some change

I wish the society feel my pain

Empty me underneath, we all the sameHigh construction on penitentiary bars

They main focus is blacks with fancy cars

And they beat us on high interest loans

Repossess our property 'cause we don't think to ownThis ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'Now, I was known for walking on the wrong side of the tracks

Slanging, smoking and drinking yack, reminiscing and thinking back

A lot of facts have been changed, we take the innocent and guilty

I played the cards that they dealed me

Went through changes that dealed meInto a better man but most often I'm misunderstood

Call me a gangsta 'cause I relay consciousness from the hood

But a lot of good comes from what you call negativity

We working with no leverage or incentive G

'Cause their nothing you ever give to meOn television or them history books

Got young black kids thinking, they put on this earth just to be crooks

See, all these mystery looks that's on the face of the boss man

When he can see a young black brother's no longer lost manHe try to break your spirit before you figure out the game

By the time you do, you lost your fame, reputation and your name

But baby, we can do it, take your time do it right

You don't wanna be a superstar overnight, trying to live that ghetto lifeThis ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'I live my life for my son so he can have something

Blessed just to see a new day so I'm trying to grab something

I been on top of the world and at the bottom too

When you up, you got lots of friends and when you down it's fewThe way we grew up was wrong, I'm the first to admit

I know God and just drop me here to be going through this

I lost D-Ray last year and it's just not the same

Just at the time in his life when he was trying to changeHe told me, "Pimp, I need help, I want up out the game"

I made a promise, I lied 'cause the next night he died

I guess our childhood is over 'cause, man, ain't nothing funny

And everything that I love revolve around sex and moneyI wanna have some more kids but in the 90's that's crazy

The woman's polluted so it ain't safe to make babies

And it's a shame 'cause Uncle Sam ain't got no job to pay me

But pay the mightiest 40 G's for every year they enslave me, it's crazyThis ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'This ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin'

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'