Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Latino, artist - Joell Ortiz. Album song The Brick, in the genre Рэп и хип-хоп
Date of issue: 23.04.2007
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Koch
Song language: English
Latino |
See how we live, see right there on that corner |
That’s where they sell the drugs (la manteca broder) |
Run the numbers and, play dominoes, whistle at the fly ladies |
You know, I’m Latino, hahahahaha (pa que sepa) |
The dope gets sold by the bodega |
While y’all call it dope, we call it the manteca |
We don’t look for lotto numbers in the newspaper |
We play it right over the counter by the Now &Laters |
Sit down on milk crates and play dominoes |
¡Capicu! |
Slam it down, tell 'em adios |
Another round of beers before we go upstairs |
And watch a fuzzy TV on some of the oldest chairs |
Relax, take a bath and get nice and clean |
Come out just in time for dinner, you know rice and beans |
A little chicken, maybe tostones, it’s up to Ma |
She might be tired keepin this house all up to par |
Sometimes I look out the window and see some nice wheels |
I got a thing for rims, they give me slight chills |
Round here you get killed over a ice-grill |
Guns pop but the O.G.'s carry knives still (word) |
(Latinooooo) I’m that and I’m proud |
If you don’t know us let me tell you about (Latinooooos) |
We got beautiful women (la-la-la la-la-la la-la) |
And they all seem to know their way around the kitchen |
I’m (Latinooooo) yeah we stick together |
We had hard lives so our skin is thick forever |
We (Latinoooooos) I’m that and I’m proud (la la la la la la laaaa) |
If you don’t know us let me tell you about |
See e’ry block got a different crew |
This kid I knew got paralyzed cause of his tattoo |
And he wasn’t in a gang |
Just some young punk tryin to come up and get a name |
Put a bullet in his brain, it’s a shame |
But yo, on a better note |
Latina women look so good from head to toe, get 'em and never let 'em go |
Baseball is big in my town |
So is boxing, a hundred he don’t see the ninth round |
These young girls is fresh, they like to get piped down |
Babies havin babies, guess who on the WIC line now? |
Guess who got welfare? |
Guess who on Medicaid? |
Guess who left they kid with their girl for eleven days? |
Without callin, cause he’s ballin |
One year from now he’ll have a child support warrant |
It happen all the time in my community |
That’s the difference between someone like you and me — I’m |
Big Chino got a truck, and a bike, and a boat |
But Chino got a gun cause his life full of coke |
And Chino havin fun, he don’t like bein broke |
But Chino gon' be done, FBI is no joke |
And I don’t want Chi' to get knocked |
When the truck around he buy ice cream for the block |
See where I’m from the kids look up to the hustlers |
Even if they’re family with some of the customers |
My abuela used to tell me to stay off the corner |
You heard what happened to Mrs. Rivera’s daughter? |
See she had got caught in the crossfire right there in broad day |
Shot her in the back tryin run in the hallway |
By my buildin all you hear is, «Oye |
Ten cuidado la policia esta en la esquina de Broadway» |
There’s action all the time in my neighborhood |
But see we all mind our business like a neighbor should |
See this one right here is for all my Latinos around the world |
Around the world man, there’s so many of us man |
Be proud of who you are man, I love y’all niggaz |
Joell Ortiz |
Latinooooos |