| Ghetto, ghetto,
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| I’ve been praying for you
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| Hallelujah.
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| It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
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| I wanna be what’s on TV,
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| And if that’s wrong, please don’t blame me,
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| Cause where I live we have nothing
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| Little kids growing up without no education,
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| Mom’s on drugs, cause that’s her only medication.
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| Nobody’s home, but they ain’t on a vacation,
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| But they left the kids alone watching the TV station.
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| What’s wrong with the picture, please, someone give me the answers
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| They be wondering why the girls grow up to be dancers
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| Then we wonder why the boys grow up to be dealers
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| And they be angry at the whole world ready to kill us.
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| After we start to resolve the whole problems
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| How we let our little children destroying the goblin
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| Why we got them all killing and stealing and robbing
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| We need to plan a little seed to prevent the mobbing
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| Why don’t we teach them that science to reach for the stars?
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| Cause they can beat the fire with the future worst than odds
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| Don’t want them looking in the past and covering scars
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| They need a path out the ghetto, hello.
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| It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
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| I wanna be what’s on TV,
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| And if that’s wrong, please don’t blame me,
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| Cause where I live we have nothing
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| Little boy had a dream of being a ball player
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| Cause little homie wanna grow to be a rhyme slayer,
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| Little missy wanna grow to be a model
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| While the momma at home just drinking out the bottle.
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| How come little one to grow and be a councilman?
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| Sitting in a governer, a mayor politicianman.
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| Probably cause the politicians keep tricking 'em
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| Promise that they fixing it but they ain’t really fixing it.
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| That’s why they want to be like me
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| Like giga like B and Nicky and Ree
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| Every day in the ghetto is an emergency
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| But the power that be don’t emerge in see.
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| That’s why you see killing, that’s why you see crimes,
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| That’s why you see homies in the prison doing time
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| That’s why you see crack, that’s why you see blackstrap
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| But no access out the ghetto, ghetto.
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| It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
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| I wanna be what’s on TV,
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| And if that’s wrong, please don’t blame me,
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| Cause where I live we have nothing
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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| Ghetto, ghetto,
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| I’ve been praying for you
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| Hallelujah. |