| From the heart of the ghetto every day a soul is saved
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| Ribs touching but our souls is brave
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| Rise up from the ashes and the coldest days
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| The Most High blessed the land now the mold is made
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| It’s a battle everyday but life goes on
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| Little soldiers runnin' around with their timbos torn
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| Ready for war street life and fights is practice
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| Watching Scarface looking up to gangstas
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| Watching other G’s observing their chances
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| Asking real questions getting fake answers
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| And then we wonder why they sitting in jail
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| Calling the crib collect begging they moms for bail, it’s real
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| So real everything we see
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| Everything that we go through
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| So real from the east to the west
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| It’s the same thing, same thing
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| On the west coast dudes bang and slang
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| On the east coast kids do the same old thing, ya heard
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| Four pound cock back trigger click goes boom, boom
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| Police speed flash lights go zoom, zoom
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| Ducking down peeking out from the front room
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| Momma telling you don’t go outside but you know what’s going on
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| And everyday it’s the same old song, short day but the stores are long
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| Momma in the back room praying for salvation
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| Cops roll up quick, push your peeps back
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| This is where the thugs and the saints sleep with street crack
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| But God’s in control gangstas agree to that
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| I seen them keep the word where they stash the heaters at
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| So real everything we see
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| Everything that we go through
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| So real from the east to the west
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| It’s the same thing, same thing
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| Yo, there is a higher power soaked in sin
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| Dried to make up sleep to wake up, daddy’s flip keys to cake up
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| Deep depression sh quite the streets in session
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| Look to the Most High defeat deception
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| That’s the lesson humble yourself, count your blessings
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| Run to the Most High and embrace His presence
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| He’s here to save raise up and claim truth
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| Raise up claim power, raise up He claims you
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| From Philly to streets of L.A.
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| Every hood and ghetto sees the same old thing
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| Little homies locked doing time in the bing
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| Quick to clap off put your arm in a sling
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| In the ghetto, ghetto
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| So real everything we see
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| Everything that we go through
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| So real from the east to the west
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| It’s the same thing, same thing
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter
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| In the ghetto, in the gutter |