| We the best | |
| I represent the hood | |
| I represent the ghetto | |
| I represent the people | |
| I represent you | |
| LISTEN!!! | |
| All the money in the world couldnt change me | |
| No diamond rings or them fancy cars | |
| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me | |
| Holler this because..... | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the pojects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the projects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| Ayo Cali | |
| Walk with me | |
| Yeah thats what got me here | |
| The chucks the khaki suits | |
| All the swap meet years | |
| The six dollar socks the five dollar rocks | |
| Uncle Greg rest in peace he taught me how to chop | |
| Thats why I love the hood and everything we got | |
| From the ice cream trucks to the fourty ounce tops | |
| All white Air Force Ones to fake Jacob watch | |
| A few reasons why I drive the Bently hard top | |
| Use it in my songs cause I live it on the block | |
| Tattoo it on my face let the whole world watch | |
| I'm that type of nigga yall made my city bigger dawg | |
| Turn the TV off got tired of watchin Jigga boss | |
| So we told our mom's we was lookin for jobs | |
| When we was really in the record store lookin for Nas | |
| Project of the ghetto, Ghetto and the project | |
| From compton to being Dre's number one prospect so..... | |
| All the money in the world couldnt change me | |
| No diamond rings or them fancy cars | |
| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me | |
| Holler this because..... | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the pojects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the projects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| AAHHAA!!! | |
| Yeah ugh | |
| They know | |
| Yeah ugh | |
| Aint no help there just food stamps | |
| Weight checks and welfare | |
| Every man gone for self there | |
| Still might need to borrow your medicade card for health care | |
| Yeah if you never got knocked then you made it | |
| Everybody know eachother if not they realated | |
| You can get shot or get bladed | |
| Theres dudes that got jobs now that had blocks in the eighties | |
| Six months five years for you just to cop out | |
| Ninth or tenth grade is usually when niggas drop out | |
| Fights break out when you wired and start joking | |
| Alot of OG's retired and started smokin | |
| House party games of spade sweet kool-aid | |
| Loud music all night till the boys in blue raid | |
| So therefore I could never be too paid | |
| I know where I'm going and where I'm from will get you laid | |
| All the money in the world couldnt change me | |
| No diamond rings or them fancy cars | |
| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me | |
| Holler this because..... | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the pojects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the projects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| Haha | |
| Tell me this how come | |
| Black folks get a little doe | |
| And forget where they come from | |
| Man we used to have good times | |
| But since you moved on up you aint cool with us | |
| We still support you tho we dont see you much | |
| You aint the first fool its cool with us | |
| But why you living out your idols dreams | |
| Remember how for you came and help you keep those thangs | |
| Now its cool that your adress changed | |
| But I'm tryna holla at my dog and the number aint the same | |
| I guess new homies came with his fame | |
| But see true homies will stay the same | |
| Through all the up's and down's in your career | |
| A couple wives few kids scattered here | |
| And when you dead or broke without a deal | |
| All the groupies cleared... The ghetto will still be here | |
| All the money in the world couldnt change me | |
| No diamond rings or them fancy cars | |
| Cause my niggas in the hood woulda let me | |
| Holler this because..... | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the pojects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' | |
| (I'm from the ghetto) I'm from the ghetto | |
| (I'm from the projects) I'm from the projects | |
| All over the world and every hood they know | |
| I'm from the ghetto and thats fo sho' |