| We the best
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| I represent the hood
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| I represent the ghetto
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| I represent the people
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| I represent you
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| Listen!
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| All the money in the world couldn’t change me
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| No diamond rings or them fancy cars
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| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me
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| Holler this because
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo' sho'
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo' sho'
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| Ayo Cali
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| Walk with me
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| Yeah that’s what got me here
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| The chucks the khaki suits
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| All the swap meet years
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| The six dollar socks the five dollar rocks
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| Uncle Greg rest in peace he taught me how to chop
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| That’s why I love the hood and everything we got
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| From the ice cream trucks to the forty ounce tops
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| All white Air Force Ones to fake Jacob watch
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| A few reasons why I drive the Bentley hard top
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| Use it in my songs cause I live it on the block
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| Tattoo it on my face let the whole world watch
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| I’m that type of nigga y’all made my city bigger dog
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| Turn the TV off got tired of watchin' Jigga boss
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| So we told our mom’s we was lookin' for jobs
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| When we was really in the record store lookin' for Nas
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| Project of the ghetto, Ghetto and the project
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| From Compton to being Dre’s number one prospect so
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| All the money in the world couldn’t change me
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| No diamond rings or them fancy cars
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| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me
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| Holler this because
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the pojects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho'
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho'
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| Aha!
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| Yeah ugh
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| They know
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| Yeah ugh
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| Ain’t no help there just food stamps
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| Weight checks and welfare
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| Every man gone for self there
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| Still might need to borrow your medicade card for health care
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| Yeah if you never got knocked then you made it
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| Everybody know each other if not they related
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| You can get shot or get bladed
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| There’s dudes that got jobs now that had blocks in the eighties
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| Six months five years for you just to cop out
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| Ninth or tenth grade is usually when niggas drop out
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| Fights break out when you wired and start joking
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| A lot of OG’s retired and started smokin'
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| House party games of spade sweet kool-aid
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| Loud music all night till the boys in blue raid
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| So therefore I could never be too paid
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| I know where I’m going and where I’m from will get you laid
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| All the money in the world couldn’t change me
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| No diamond rings or them fancy cars
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| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me
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| Holler this because
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho'
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho'
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| Haha
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| Tell me this how come
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| Black folks get a little doe
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| And forget where they come from
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| Man we used to have good times
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| But since you moved on up you ain’t cool with us
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| We still support you tho we don’t see you much
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| You ain’t the first fool its cool with us
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| But why you living out your idols dreams
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| Remember how for you came and help you keep those thangs
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| Now its cool that your address changed
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| But I’m tryna holla at my dog and the number ain’t the same
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| I guess new homies came with his fame
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| But see true homies will stay the same
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| Through all the up’s and down’s in your career
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| A couple wives few kids scattered here
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| And when you dead or broke without a deal
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| All the groupies cleared
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| The ghetto will still be here
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| All the money in the world couldn’t change me
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| No diamond rings or them fancy cars
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| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me
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| Holler this because
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho'
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| (I'm from the ghetto) I’m from the ghetto
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| (I'm from the projects) I’m from the projects
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| All over the world and every hood they know
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| I’m from the ghetto and that’s fo sho' |