I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say! Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Please don't leave Rio But they trying so hard not to let me play Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Oh don't you go oh no Rio Then I gotta let know how I feel! Please don't leave Rio Cause I ain't nothing but a dude from the G-yo That's trying to play it cool on these dummies like the reapo This rap game is mines let me show you how a G-flow Chi town brothers show love for this But the others want us down from above the bliss But Imma drink Imma clown like a thug with crist While I'm chillen downtown trying to plug my grips they say (Please don't leave Rio) Cause they know I represent this game So when it all comes to life I resent the fame And all the dollars and the price and the cents that came I ain't nothing but a product trying to make it real But they make it so hard for me to take this deal (You gotta change your style) just to scrape my bills I think this game is foul but lets embrace my sk** by saying Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Please don't leave Rio But they trying so hard not to let me play Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Oh don't you go oh no Rio Then I gotta let know what's the real The good and the bad is the hood that we had But I came out good, so should I be sad? Money don't makes a one to succeed Hey I come from the slums where I couldn't even read I couldn't even spell but you would have never tell I engraved myself from being dead or in jail And raised myself and took it straight to this level I forever will excel but I'll never leave this ghetto say' Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Please don't leave Rio But they trying so hard not to let me play Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Oh don't you go oh no Rio Then I gotta let know how I feel! The life that I haul was a hard one to catch I was treated like a dog but I played with the fetch And gave my all but felt proud when I gave it I'm having a ball but thanking god that I made it yeah This is the cause because they owed my block And I come a long way from when I sold the rocks from under the stars getting paid and you told the cops (Heeey) But look at what it made, you should have known my plot I gotta song that's hot and a whole fam to feed looking for a company of a jam in need And I ain't really gotta problem just a man indeed Hoping that the ghetto understand my plead I'll never let go another star is born from the ill's of the hood to an even harder storm And Imma preach to the kids Like a father form Rio may be the ghetto but he's far from norm now say Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Please don't leave Rio But they trying so hard not to let me play Please don't leave Rio I wanna hear everybody in my ghetto say Oh don't you go oh no Rio Then I gotta let know what's the deal!