In the Ghetto (feat. Rick James)

You know, my homie Treach from Naughty By Nature once said

If you ain't from the ghetto, don't come to the fuckin' ghetto

But I'ma let one of our most immaculate tour guides

Take us all through the ghetto, my **** Rick James

When I was a young boy, growin' up in the ghetto

Hanging out corners, singing with the fellas

Lookin' for the cute chicks, tryin' to find me big fun

Lookin' for some trouble for anyone who'd give me some

I was young and crazy (In the ghetto)

Didn't know what my life would be (In the ghetto)

I was dumb and oh, so lazy (In the ghetto)

Something had a spell on me (In the ghetto)

You all know what I'm talkin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

(In the ghetto)

Sure, we be takin' them chances while we search for the answers

We be smokin' them cancer sticks

Police provokin' motherfuckers, we dancin'

And we be dodgin' them bullets they be poppin off at us, shit

But yet we always romance the street

And fall in love with the hood till somebody come blast the heat

Always up to no good, so all of my fam could eat

See, in the hood, we hungry, hey ****, we playin' for keeps

My soldiers on the block, get on it

It'd be good if you flaunt, we will take if we want it

See **** from the ghetto got a different state of mind

With a different kind of hustle and we in love with the grind

And develop our muscle till we sicker with the shine

In the struggle, that's how money come quicker, doin' crime

I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me

You can take me out the ghetto but you can't take it from me

Gotta love it

(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

(In the ghetto)

That's where we get into that street shit

Hustle hard, try to get money quick (In the ghetto)

That's where I got my name from

I learned to get money and I got all my game from (In the ghetto)

That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves

And get to hustlin' as hard as you could (in the ghetto)

Until your cake stackin' shit'll get good

Throw a block party for the whole hood (In the ghetto)

With them burnout celly's, talk crazy, sell drugs in front of Pancho Deli

Crackhead chicks still smoke with babies in their belly

And then piss in elevators till the lobby all smelly (In the ghetto)

It's where I keep my ratchet skin, my instincts and survival tactics

Ain't nothin' like the hood, ****, I don't care

You survive it in the ghetto, you can make it anywhere, gotta love it

(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

To my East coast **** (Rep your ghetto)

West coast **** (Rep your ghetto)

Midwest **** (Rep your ghetto)

Down south **** (Rep your ghetto)

To my East coast **** (Rep your ghetto)

West coast **** (Rep your ghetto)

Midwest **** (Rep your ghetto)

To my dirty south **** (Rep your ghetto)

(In the ghetto)

Even though they act rude

You'll always find a good chick to hold a brick for their dude

Behind the bullshit, me and my clique on the move

We honor the code of the street and live by the rules (In the ghetto)

It's where all of the hoods at find the most crooks

And they sell the most drugs at

We could find beautiful women and rugrats

And some of the most powerful people, I love that, come on

(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

You all know what I'm talkin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

Ghetto life (Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)

(In the ghetto)

Never mind who you thought I was, I'm Rick James, bitch