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The Ghetto

The Ghetto Lyrics

Song The Ghetto
Artist Too $hort
Album The Essential
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[00:05.47] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:10.84] funky funky ghetto
[00:15.76] Trying to survive
[00:19.46] trying to stay alive
[00:21.12] The ghetto
[00:27.15] （Talking bout the ghetto）
[00:30.56] The ghetto
[00:36.69] (Funk funky ghetto)
[00:39.54] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.79] Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.18] Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.35] Every day it's the same
[00:48.40] And it's the same every night
[00:49.66] I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
[00:52.10] If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.60] Every day I wonder just how I'll die
[00:56.95] Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.50] There's only one rule in the real world
[01:01.74] And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:04.18] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.58] Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
[01:09.03] Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:11.28] Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
[01:13.88] Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.23] I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
[01:18.55] The ghetto
[01:20.04] （Talking bout the ghetto）
[01:23.31] The ghetto
[01:24.93] (Funk funky ghetto)
[01:28.23] The ghetto
[01:30.10] （Try live a life）
[01:34.30] The ghetto
[01:35.08] （Would tell about it TooShort）
[01:37.55] So just peep the game and don't call it crap
[01:40.07] Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:42.50] Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
[01:44.90] She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
[01:47.50] 600 million on a footbal team
[01:49.65] And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
[01:52.27] The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.56] Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.95] Don't look at me and don't ask me why
[01:59.46] Mama's next door getting high
[02:01.71] Even though she's got five mouths to feed
[02:04.16] She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
[02:06.60] I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:09.01] I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:11.30] Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.83] Waiting on him I'd better help myself
[02:16.24] Housing Authority and the O.P.D.
[02:18.65] All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:21.06] The ghetto
[02:22.89] (People all dying)
[02:25.62] The ghetto
[02:27.58] (Children all Crying)
[02:30.44] The ghetto
[02:32.30] (Soon had you lost your will)
[02:35.27] The ghetto
[02:36.68] (Do we have choose or death)
[02:40.03] The ghetto
[02:44.28] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:47.09] We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.50] Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:52.19] Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.56]
[02:57.06] Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.48] Young kids grow up and that's all they know
[03:01.64] Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
[03:04.13] Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.34] But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.75] In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.36] All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.62] You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:16.11] Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
[03:18.38] Like me, but you don't see
[03:20.75] Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:23.10] The ghetto
[03:26.85] （Tying get out the ghetto）
[03:29.12] The ghetto
[03:31.76] （But I got no place to go）
[03:34.19] The ghetto
[03:35.98] （Try to survive in hell of ghetto）
[03:38.72] The ghetto
[03:40.60] （Cuz that's only place that I know）
[03:43.75] So much game in a Too rap
[03:46.03] Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
[03:48.48] Why you wanna act like someone else?
[03:50.86] All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:53.24] We're all the same color underneath
[03:55.38] Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
[03:58.10] Never be ashamed of what you are
[04:00.45] Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:02.84] Even though some people give you no respect
[04:05.16] Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:07.52] Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:09.83] And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:12.42] So if you don't listen it's not my fault
[04:14.90] I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
[04:17.37] Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:19.71] While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:21.97] The ghetto
[04:50.02] undefined
[00:05.47] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:10.84] funky funky ghetto
[00:15.76] Trying to survive
[00:19.46] trying to stay alive
[00:21.12] The ghetto
[00:27.15] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:30.56] The ghetto
[00:36.69] Funk funky ghetto
[00:39.54] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.79] Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.18] Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.35] Every day it' s the same
[00:48.40] And it' s the same every night
[00:49.66] I wouldn' t shoot you bro but I' d shoot that fool
[00:52.10] If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.60] Every day I wonder just how I' ll die
[00:56.95] Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.50] There' s only one rule in the real world
[01:01.74] And that' s to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:04.18] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.58] Might deal me some dope but then crime don' t pay
[01:09.03] Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:11.28] Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
[01:13.88] Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.23] I get a lot of love so I' m giving it back to the
[01:18.55] The ghetto
[01:20.04] Talking bout the ghetto
[01:23.31] The ghetto
[01:24.93] Funk funky ghetto
[01:28.23] The ghetto
[01:30.10] Try live a life
[01:34.30] The ghetto
[01:35.08] Would tell about it TooShort
[01:37.55] So just peep the game and don' t call it crap
[01:40.07] Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:42.50] Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
[01:44.90] She was nine months pregnant, ain' t nothing changed
[01:47.50] 600 million on a footbal team
[01:49.65] And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
[01:52.27] The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.56] Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.95] Don' t look at me and don' t ask me why
[01:59.46] Mama' s next door getting high
[02:01.71] Even though she' s got five mouths to feed
[02:04.16] She' s rather spend her money on a HIT
[02:06.60] I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:09.01] I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:11.30] Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.83] Waiting on him I' d better help myself
[02:16.24] Housing Authority and the O. P. D.
[02:18.65] All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:21.06] The ghetto
[02:22.89] People all dying
[02:25.62] The ghetto
[02:27.58] Children all Crying
[02:30.44] The ghetto
[02:32.30] Soon had you lost your will
[02:35.27] The ghetto
[02:36.68] Do we have choose or death
[02:40.03] The ghetto
[02:44.28] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:47.09] We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.50] Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:52.19] Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.56]
[02:57.06] Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.48] Young kids grow up and that' s all they know
[03:01.64] Didn' t teach him in school now he' s slangin dope
[03:04.13] Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.34] But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.75] In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.36] All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.62] You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:16.11] Then the problems of life you' ll be throwing up
[03:18.38] Like me, but you don' t see
[03:20.75] Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:23.10] The ghetto
[03:26.85] Tying get out the ghetto
[03:29.12] The ghetto
[03:31.76] But I got no place to go
[03:34.19] The ghetto
[03:35.98] Try to survive in hell of ghetto
[03:38.72] The ghetto
[03:40.60] Cuz that' s only place that I know
[03:43.75] So much game in a Too rap
[03:46.03] Blacks can' t be white and whites can' t be black
[03:48.48] Why you wanna act like someone else?
[03:50.86] All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:53.24] We' re all the same color underneath
[03:55.38] Short Dog' s in the house you' d better listen to me
[03:58.10] Never be ashamed of what you are
[04:00.45] Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:02.84] Even though some people give you no respect
[04:05.16] Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:07.52] Cause when you' re ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:09.83] And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:12.42] So if you don' t listen it' s not my fault
[04:14.90] I' ll be getting paid while you' ll be paying the cost
[04:17.37] Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:19.71] While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:21.97] The ghetto
[04:50.02] undefined
[00:05.47] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:10.84] funky funky ghetto
[00:15.76] Trying to survive
[00:19.46] trying to stay alive
[00:21.12] The ghetto
[00:27.15] Talking bout the ghetto
[00:30.56] The ghetto
[00:36.69] Funk funky ghetto
[00:39.54] Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
[00:42.79] Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
[00:45.18] Old school buddies not doing it right
[00:47.35] Every day it' s the same
[00:48.40] And it' s the same every night
[00:49.66] I wouldn' t shoot you bro but I' d shoot that fool
[00:52.10] If he played me close and tried to test my cool
[00:54.60] Every day I wonder just how I' ll die
[00:56.95] Only thing I know is how to survive
[00:59.50] There' s only one rule in the real world
[01:01.74] And that' s to take care of you, only you and yours
[01:04.18] Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
[01:06.58] Might deal me some dope but then crime don' t pay
[01:09.03] Black man tried to break into my house again
[01:11.28] Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
[01:13.88] Even though my brothers do me just like that
[01:16.23] I get a lot of love so I' m giving it back to the
[01:18.55] The ghetto
[01:20.04] Talking bout the ghetto
[01:23.31] The ghetto
[01:24.93] Funk funky ghetto
[01:28.23] The ghetto
[01:30.10] Try live a life
[01:34.30] The ghetto
[01:35.08] Would tell about it TooShort
[01:37.55] So just peep the game and don' t call it crap
[01:40.07] Cause to me, life is one hard rap
[01:42.50] Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
[01:44.90] She was nine months pregnant, ain' t nothing changed
[01:47.50] 600 million on a footbal team
[01:49.65] And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
[01:52.27] The story I tell is so incomplete
[01:54.56] Five kids in the house and no food to eat
[01:56.95] Don' t look at me and don' t ask me why
[01:59.46] Mama' s next door getting high
[02:01.71] Even though she' s got five mouths to feed
[02:04.16] She' s rather spend her money on a HIT
[02:06.60] I always tell the truth about things like this
[02:09.01] I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
[02:11.30] Instead of adding to the task force send some help
[02:13.83] Waiting on him I' d better help myself
[02:16.24] Housing Authority and the O. P. D.
[02:18.65] All these guns just to handle me in the
[02:21.06] The ghetto
[02:22.89] People all dying
[02:25.62] The ghetto
[02:27.58] Children all Crying
[02:30.44] The ghetto
[02:32.30] Soon had you lost your will
[02:35.27] The ghetto
[02:36.68] Do we have choose or death
[02:40.03] The ghetto
[02:44.28] Even though they put us down and call us animals
[02:47.09] We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
[02:49.50] Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
[02:52.19] Never really saying just who we are
[02:54.56]
[02:57.06] Sell you stuff you might kill for
[02:59.48] Young kids grow up and that' s all they know
[03:01.64] Didn' t teach him in school now he' s slangin dope
[03:04.13] Only thing he knows is how to survive
[03:06.34] But will he kill another brother before he dies?
[03:08.75] In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
[03:11.36] All day long, just hoping and hoping
[03:13.62] You can pay your bills and not drink too much
[03:16.11] Then the problems of life you' ll be throwing up
[03:18.38] Like me, but you don' t see
[03:20.75] Ten years from now, where will you be?
[03:23.10] The ghetto
[03:26.85] Tying get out the ghetto
[03:29.12] The ghetto
[03:31.76] But I got no place to go
[03:34.19] The ghetto
[03:35.98] Try to survive in hell of ghetto
[03:38.72] The ghetto
[03:40.60] Cuz that' s only place that I know
[03:43.75] So much game in a Too rap
[03:46.03] Blacks can' t be white and whites can' t be black
[03:48.48] Why you wanna act like someone else?
[03:50.86] All you gotta do is just be yourself
[03:53.24] We' re all the same color underneath
[03:55.38] Short Dog' s in the house you' d better listen to me
[03:58.10] Never be ashamed of what you are
[04:00.45] Proud to be black stand tall at heart
[04:02.84] Even though some people give you no respect
[04:05.16] Be intelligent, when you put em in check
[04:07.52] Cause when you' re ignorant, you get treated that way
[04:09.83] And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
[04:12.42] So if you don' t listen it' s not my fault
[04:14.90] I' ll be getting paid while you' ll be paying the cost
[04:17.37] Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
[04:19.71] While me and my peoples try to get out
[04:21.97] The ghetto
[04:50.02] undefined
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