Downtown

Lyrics

[Intro: Dave Chappelle] I didn't know he was taking me to the ghetto at first. I started looking out the window, I was like, "What the fuck? There was a gun store, gun store, liquor store, gun store. "Where the fuck you takin' me?! [Verse 1] You know the way it is, the roads are paved in piss Downtown, hey that's where Satan is And broken glass, too, and floatin' trash, too The center of LA smells like open ass, whoo! You meet the youngest girls with the oldest tattoos And old women with no wisdom to pass you You can ride around and take a stop in Chinatown Or you can go and watch a bum fight title bout Or you can just relax, or you can wonder most of the bums are black and got a strong love for crack It's somethin' different, apartment buildings rats and roaches wouldn't live in One bedroom, no kitchen Comin' from nineteen-thirty, carpet's nice and dirty Don't drink the tap water because you might get scurvy Hepatitis, herpes, they pass it around And don't slip there's a lot of broken glass on the ground [Chorus] Mother Earth's got a rash and they call it downtown If you're knee-deep in trash, then you're probably downtown Every car [?] in the streets of downtown Everybody low on cash, LA city downtown We're the ten, the 1-10 and the [?] But the traffic's so bad, we take the side streets We're the ten, the 1-10, and the [?] Downtown, LA, let's go sightsee [Verse 2] Some buildings scrap the sky and freeways seem to fascinate the eye And sometimes Skid Row makes me sigh Everybody's high and beggin' for a dollar twenty-five Tough time, they're hopin' to get by I drop a little change, see I'd have be a stand-up comic to complain About my awkward little pain I walk on the terrain, I walk with the same I've seen so many inner coffins without a grave Some don't have a clue, but some can see it all from their office building view There's women and children, too Suckin' the stale air, don't get welfare There's no home address, how the hell they can get mail there? Twin towers, baby, my cousin's in jail there Twenty-three hours a day he sits in a cell there Well there, isn't that lovely, downtown in the summer-y, wonderful and ugly [Chorus] Mother Earth's got a rash and they call it downtown If you're knee-deep in trash, then you're probably downtown Every car [?] in the streets of downtown Everybody low on cash, LA city downtown We're the ten, the 1-10 and the [?] But the traffic's so bad, we take the side streets We're the ten, the 1-10, and the [?] Downtown, LA, let's go sightsee