Somethin About The Ghetto

Don't be concerned

If people look down on you because you're from the hood

There are good-hearted homies in the hood

Good and bad memories (memories)

Friends and enemies (enemies)

Summer breeze (summer breeze)

There's somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

Somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

The ghetto never let go (let go)

There's somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

Somethin' about-

Day by day, I kinda sit and write the crazy rhymes

To the beat, the rhythm, the rhyme kinda combines

I don't make up no storylines

I'm just rappin' about the signs of the crazy times

Poor people struggling to make ends meet

I'm caught up in the system designed for defeat

Yes, I'm saying the truth, applying the facts

Some accept the lies and pancake stacks

A brother like me, one that won't go down

Kickin' the knowledge, born and raised in Motown

Reminding you of the triangular float

That's brothers thrown in a dark hole in the bottom of a boat

And no, I'm not angry, mad or hot

Sick of us taking for granted what a brother got

Anything that I say, you do not understand

I urge you to look it up, and yeah

There's somethin' about the ghetto

There's somethin' about the ghetto

There's somethin' about the ghetto, ay

The ghetto never let go

Now I kick hard rhymes in very high doses (ah, ah)

Engulf MC's like phagocytosis (ah, ah, ah, ah)

I got to flow mo', process of the body

Absorb the knowledge while you're rockin' at the party (ah, ah)

Hold up, let's shift some gears

Here's a little somethin' make you shed some tears (ah, ah, ah, ah)

While in Oaktown, I went around the way

"I saw the ghetto," like the Too Short say

The ghetto song is not exaggeration

Deep inside, I'm feeling the aggravation

Gun shop, liquor store, every other block

Non-stop killin', there was killin' non-stop

Now peep this out, on every block you'd see

The P-O-L-I-C-E (huh)

Drug deal goes down as the children play

You pay some off, they'll look the other way

Because they want us to cry, they want us to die

Feed us a lie so we won't fly high

Maya said, "We would rise

And we would do it right in front of your eyes"

'Cause on the mic I will rise, right in front of their eyes

'Cause I am a surprise, I am a surprise

Praying for you around the clock

Pause for a moment to answer the knock

To the center of the problem, straight to the core

Don't tax the rich, keep kicking the poor

No matter what you do, can't stop our soar

It's about time lions roar (ah, ah)

There's somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

The ghetto won't let go (ah, ah, ah, ah)

Somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

Somethin' about the ghetto (ah, ah)

Somethin' about the ghetto (ghetto)

The ghetto never let go (ah, ah, ah, ah)

Somethin', yeah