Welcome to the ghetto
(Verse 1)
Livin day by day in my hood on the spot
See the same old things:same dope
Fiends cops
Just an average day in the streets of California
5-0 find a young girl dead around the corner
Mommies on her knees she had tears in her eyes
And nobody knew why the young girl had to die
People look ashamed it's been like this fo years
Bloody sheets on her body face wet from her mama's tears
She couldn'ta been over 4-5
And if mommy wasn't based she would still be alive
But now the street is a place you could be swallowed by d**h
Brothas takin each other's lives
And goin to REST IN PEACE
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
My cousin died last year
And I still can't let go
I walk the streets of my city of my neighborhood
Seein dope fiends livin off can goods
15 n***as on the corner
And n***as die young in California
5-0 'll get a dope case and flaunt it
Have your a** on "America's Most Wanted"
But I don't slang or even gang-bang
And though my old school homies do the same thang
I still got love cause you gotta live
So you can give
And raise a family G
But you gotta do your best slangin D-O-P-E
So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow
And welcome to the ghetto
(Make me Wanna Holler, they way they do my life)
(chorus) 4x
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me Wanna Holler, they way they do my life)
(Verse 2)
From across the seas comes c**aine
But you never seen a black man fly the plane
Look at the news:a young black d**h
Was it drug related,take a guess
I flash when I look in the mirror black
Cause my reflection is a 9 millimeter Gat
I think about genocide
And have thoughts of my homies who died
Everybody backstabbin
But I ain't the one to talk I'm into gafflin
d**h
Gives a sh** about your color
But yet I see mo dead young brothas
I'm goin crazy out here
Seein 24 brothas die by the end of the year
And I still gotta deal with the 5-0
And I stopped sellin dope in 9-0
But if I came to it
I probably still do it
Put a Nine in my draws get straight to it
I hope that I never see the day
That I get 20 years for a cake
B-K-A as a key
So open up the door for the
Mo money
But I ain't gotta do that G
Cause I'm down with the F-A to the C to the U to the L-T-Y
G-nut X-tra Large
And S-P-I-C-E make n***as feel like jello
And welcome to the ghetto
(Make me Wanna Holler, they way they do my life)
(chorus) 4x
Welcome to the ghetto 7x
(Verse 3)
Ain't no justice its just us
And any n***a with the guts loves to bust
At the police n***as can't get peace
Sendin' troops to the ghetto like the middle east
My homie on the block got beat down
And he never sold an ouce, a key, a pound
Suicide was a notion, sometimes I wanna run and dive in the ocean
But k**in' myself ain't the answer cause the problems of the world need a cure like cancer
And everybody see the problem but the president and he ain't livin' in the ghetto so that's evident
I quit pullin' over, f** the police
Cause they beat Rodney King like a savage beast
Now motherf**ers on my block think its Glock time
Open up season on cop time
So welcome to the ghetto
Where n***as try to play yo a** like a cello
The mayor got the projects boarded up
And the white and the blacks all sorted up
My people livin' in poverty
And everytime i wanna' max I'm on a motherf**ers property
Make me wanna' get the gat to and peel a cap to i gives a f** about the tattoo
Tears, spendin' years in the P-E-N
Cop dead gone with the wind
f** love in the ghetto see
187 THOUSAND G!