| (with John Legend, feat. Malik Yusef) [Malik Yusef] | |
| You know you ghetto boy, when you got a face, with a scar | |
| And yo' highest aspirations is a place, and a car | |
| Shorties pull out and bussssst, like a money shot | |
| Now he on the run, he hot | |
| And he hurtin his | |
| Granny and she the only one he got | |
| The hood so shady | |
| You give up hope, of ever even tryin to find a sunny, spot- -light, they caught him at the stop- -light, but if he woulda run that yellow | |
| Then he coulda, run the globe | |
| But insteed, with speed | |
| They put one in the middle of his frontal, lobe like a unicorn | |
| I'm just tryin to keep you, informed | |
| To my little ghetto soldiers in they, gold green, red, and blue uni-forms - chuuch! | |
| But I'm feeling like the loneliest monk | |
| So I pull me a | |
| Thelonius | |
| Monk and blew, the horn | |
| And we don the monikers of goons and gangsters | |
| And are trained to conduct ourselves true, to form | |
| So we add a | |
| Shorty, a | |
| Money, a Mack | |
| A Lil', a | |
| Eazy, or a | |
| Young to our name | |
| So all the big ballers grab rims and hung, in the game | |
| And there's a degree, of difficul-ty to make it from the ghetto boy into the man-hood | |
| Especially when you know that yo' fresh greens will help eliminated a canned, good | |
| Can, good, and bad co-exisssst? | |
| In a place with plenty of off ramps but no ex-its |
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