Ant Banks - Welcome to the Ghetto lyrics

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!