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You know, my homey treach from naughty by nature once said"If you ain't from the ghetto, don't come to the ****in' ghetto" |
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But I'ma let one of our most immaculate tour guides |
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Take us all through the ghetto, my nigga, |
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Rick James |
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When I was a young boy, growin' up in the ghetto |
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Hangin' out on corners, singin' with the fellas |
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Lookin' for the cute chicks, tryin' to find me big fun |
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Lookin' for some trouble or anyone who'll give me some |
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I was young and crazy(In the ghetto) |
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Didn't know what my life would be(In the ghetto) |
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I was dumb and o, so lazy(In the ghetto) |
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Something had a spell on me(In the ghetto) |
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You all know what |
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I'm talkin' 'bout(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life, talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You all know what |
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I'm singin' 'bout(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)(In the ghetto) |
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Sure we be takin' them chances while we search for the answers |
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We be smokin' them cancer sticks, police provokin' muhtha****ers |
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We dancin' and we be dodgin' them bullets they be poppin' off at us, shit |
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But yet we always romance the street and fall in love with the hood' |
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Til somebody come blast the heat, always up to no good |
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So all of my fam could eat, see in the hood we hungry |
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Hey, nigga, we playin' for keeps, my soldiers on the block get on it |
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It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it |
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See, niggaz, from the ghetto got a different state of mind |
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With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind |
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And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine in the struggle |
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Thus our money come quicker doin' crime |
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I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me, you can take me out |
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The ghetto, but you can't take it from me, gotta love it(Talkin 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You all know what |
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I'm singin' 'bout(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)(In the ghetto) |
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That's where we get into that street, shit |
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Hustle hard, try to get money quick(In the ghetto) |
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That's where |
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I got my name from |
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I learned to get money and |
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I got all my game from(In the ghetto) |
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That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves |
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And get to hustlin' as hard as you could(In the ghetto) |
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Until your cake stackin' shit'll get good |
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Throw a block party for the whole hood(In the ghetto) |
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With them burn out cellys, talk crazy, sell drugs in front of |
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Pancho Deli |
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Crack head chicks still smuggle babies in they belly |
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And them piss in elevators 'til the lobby all smelly(In the ghetto) |
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That's where |
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I keep my ratchets |
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Get my instincts and survival tactics |
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Ain't nuttin' like the hood nigga, |
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I don't care |
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You survivin' in the ghetto, you can make it anywhere |
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Gotta love it(Talkin 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You all know what |
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I'm singin' 'bout(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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To my east coast niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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West coast niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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Midwest niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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Down south niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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To my east coast niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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West coast niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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Midwest niggaz, rep your ghetto |
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To my dirty south niggaz, rep your ghetto(In the ghetto) |
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Even though they act rude, you'll always find a good chick |
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To hold a brick for they dude, behind the bullshit |
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Me and my clique on the move, we honor the code of the street |
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And live by the rules |
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Is where, all of the hood's at(In the ghetto) |
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Find the most crooks and they sell the most drugs at |
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Where you find beautiful women and rugrats |
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And some of the most powerful people, |
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I love that, come on(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You all know, what |
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I'm talkin' 'bout(Talkin 'bout ghetto life, talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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You all know what |
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I'm singin' 'bout(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life) |
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Ghetto life(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life, in the ghetto) |
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Never mind who you thought |
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I wasI'm Rick |
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James, bitch |
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug |
