Akon - Ghetto Gospel lyrics

[ DJ One Remix] [Verse 1, 2Pac] If I could recollect before my hood days I'd sit, reminisce thinking a bliss of the good days I stop and stare at the younger My heart goes to 'em They tested it was stress that they under We never really went through that Cause we was born B.C. - you and me before crack And nowadays things changed Everyone's ashamed of the youth cause the truth look - strange And for me it's reversed We left them a world that's cursed and it - hurts Cause any day they'll push the bu*ton And all condemned like Malcolm X and Bobby Hutton died for nothing Don't it make em get teary The world looks dreary But when you wipe your eyes see it clearly There is no need for you to fear me If you take the time to hear me Maybe you can learn to cheer me It ain't about black or white cause we're human I hope we'll see the light before it's ruined My Ghetto Gospel (Chorus, Akon) Who ever said that this trouble would stop today A lot of n***as get locked away Teenage women growing up with AID's Cause that's the life when your living in the Ghetto Ohh eating in the Ghetto Ohh sleeping in the Ghetto That's the life when your living in the Ghetto Ohh eating in the Ghetto Ohh sleeping in the Ghetto [Verse 2, 2Pac] Tell me do you see that old lady ain't it sad Living out of bags but she's glad for the little things she has And over there there's a lady, crack got her crazy, well guess who's giving birth to a baby I don't trip to let her fade me From outta the frying pan we jump into another form of slavery And even now I get discouraged I wonder if they take it all back will I still keep the courage? I refuse to be a role model I say ghost take control drink out my own bottles I make mistakes but learn from everyone And when it's said and done I bet this brother will be a better one If I upset you, don't stress, never forget that God isn't finished with me yet I feel his hand on my brains when I write rhymes I go blind and let the Lord do his thing But am I less holy? Cause I choose to puff a blunt, and drink a beer with my homies Before we find world peace We gotta find peace there's a war in the streets My Ghetto Gospel (Chorus, Akon) Who ever said that this trouble would stop today A lot of n***as get locked away Teenage women growing up with AID's Cause that's the life when your living in the Ghetto Ohh eating in the Ghetto Ohh sleeping in the Ghetto That's the life when your living in the Ghetto Ohh eating in the Ghetto Ohh sleeping in the Ghetto Gun shot every night in the Ghetto Crooked cops on side in the Ghetto Everyday is fight in the Ghetto Oh oh oh oh oh Ghetto Got kids to feed in the Ghetto Sellin coke and weed in the Ghetto Everyday somebody bleed in the Ghetto Oh oh oh oh oh Ghetto