| They say the world is a ghetto, I’m witnessin' a generation die
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| By poverty sickness and homicide
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| Now Momma on the front pew, askin' the preacher why
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| Like he knowin' what it’s like to be hated and criticized
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| And sharks in the water create you the wrong way
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| When you’re a target, see that’s how these niggas out here behave
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| I hate to go to funerals, I never visit graves
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| Cause I’m knowin' that through this dirt that, you can’t hear me when I say
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| That I love you dawg, and out of all them power moves I coulda' made
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| I focused on keepin' your family straight
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| I, po' out some liquor so you don’t go out forgotten
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| I’m drownin' off in this bottle, tryin' to solve my fuckin' problems
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| New days changes, different than how it was
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| We upped it from stealin' cars to hustlin', dealin' drugs
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| I’ve seen a whole lot of good niggas die
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| Cause the ghetto took advantage when situations provide
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| That’s my life, story of a nigga in the ghetto
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| Money minimal so we settle
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| For whatever they give us in the ghetto
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| We settle
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| That’s my life, story of a nigga in the ghetto
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| Crack rock slangin' in the ghetto
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| Momma why you leave me in the ghetto
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| The ghetto
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| The little kids in the hood live a life with no outlets
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| Rap or ball playin' to survive
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| Devils in disguise in the fact that a nigga’s broke
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| Makes him more prone to drop out of school and fuck with dope
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| With hopes of gettin' paper and chasin' his fuckin' dream
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| But America’s got us dyin' for it waitin' for relief
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| The penitentiaries is filled to the max
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| With my people who tried to make it out but never made it back
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| Crack, to see yo' Momma doin' bad
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| Hit as hard as you see it, yo' daddy sittin' on his ass
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| Doin' nothin', fuck it, that’s when them tears start rushin'
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| White powder in the coffee pot bubblin', hustlin'
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| I know exactly where you at dawg
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| Out there on the corner where the rats crawl
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| It’s my life
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| I shoot it out befo' I bail, fly befo' I set sail
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| I’d rather die cause I could never tell
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| Rather see Heaven, I done been through Hell
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| Seen the elderly fucked by drug laws, niggas dyin' in jail
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| The guidelines stiffer, they sentence my people different
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| Instead of intervention they sendin' us straight to prison
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| First time offenders get tangled up in the system
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| For ghost dope, he went from dopeman to straight killer
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| It’s po' folks, you livin' in the hood
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| But yet and still you can’t survive
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| Cause Reagan never planned for us to rise
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| The war on drugs turned to a war on us
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| Then aids just topped it off, this shit here is fucked up
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| You either, eat or you starve, rob or go get a job
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| Break down to either wake up, hustle or pray to God
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| Faith is one thing without work you ain’t got nothin'
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| Decisions from a motherfucker strugglin' |