Ghetto Livin - Radio Edit

Two brothers born in the struggle

Drugs, violence, and hustlin'

Freestyles on prison buses

Making somethin' outta nothing

Even though they come from -

Livin' in the ghetto, ghetto

They lock us up to keep us down

The feds know

She don't make no money if her legs closed

Don't you know we come from queens and pharaohs

Outta sights and outta mind

Lil boy only eight but he got a nine

Don't you ever think we chose poverty and crime

Blueprint from the government, it's all by design

Runin' out of time

I ain't got no patience

Dawg, you either talking money or don't say ----

Bills due, gotta help my mama pay rent

Daddy locked up, ---- ain't been the same since

Judge gave him the book, he on page ten

Yeah, I'm free but I'm still feeling caged in

Granny got us up in church yelling "Amen"

I just prayed for a lick so we can make ends

Lord knows I tried, finna go slide right now

I ain't got ----, so whatever they got, that's mine

Really wanna cry right now

But I'm too tough to let a tear drop from my eyes

She wear her smile upside down

But he don't love her, he just love what's between her thighs

Know the block hot right now

But all the custos outside

So that's why I'm cooking up dope in the (Ghetto)

Killers and --- ------ (Ghetto)

Here come the 5-0 trippin'

(Ghetto)

Everybody po' pimpin' (Ghetto we livin)

---- it, pour up more liquor (Ghetto)

Everybody broke in the (Ghetto)

Ain't a lot of hope in the (Ghetto)

Hot summers, cold winters

(Ghetto we livin)

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

Another day, new homicide

Son dies, new mother cries

Look her in the eyes

Technically she still alive

They buried her too when he died

Still in denial

She say it ain't real

She won't admit so she can't heal

Cop cold as ice, he don't feel

Yellin' "Freeze" but he won't chill

But that's every day when surviving the slums

Call out for help, ain't nobody gon' come

Seen what I saw, now the trauma is done

Pills just to cope, started poppin' 'em young

Gotta do better

Gotta unite because we in this together

We gotta fight, won't be like this forever

I know I'm flawed, just like you, I ain't special

Lord knows I tried, finna go slide right now

I ain't got ----, so whatever they got, that's mine

Really wanna cry right now

But I'm too tough to let a tear drop from my eyes

She wear her smile upside down

But he don't love her, he just love what's between her thighs

Know the block hot right now

But all the custos outside

So that's why I'm cooking up dope in the (Ghetto)

Killers and --- ------ (Ghetto)

Here come the 5-0 trippin'

(Ghetto)

Everybody po' pimpin' (Ghetto we livin)

---- it, pour up more liquor (Ghetto)

Everybody broke in the (Ghetto)

Ain't a lot of hope in the (Ghetto)

Hot summers, cold winters

(Ghetto we livin)

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray that I make it out

I pray that I make it out

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