Welcome to the Ghetto

Lyrics

[Intro] Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 1] Livin day by day in my hood on the spot I see the same old things, same dope fiends, cops Just a average day in the streets, California 5-0 find a young girl dead around the corner Mommy's 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 for years Bloody sheets on her body, face wet from her momma's tears She couldn't have 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 death Brothers takin each other's lives and going to rest in peace I wonder if heaven got a ghetto My cousin died last year, man, I still can't it let go I walk the streets of my city of my neighborhood Seeing dope fiends living off canned goods Fifteen niggas on the corner And niggas die young in California 5-0'll get a dope case and flaunt it Have your ass on America's Most Wanted But I don't slang or even gangbang And though my old school homies do the same thing I still got love 'cause you gotta live so you can give And raise a family, G But you gotta do your best slanging D-O-P-E So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow And welcome to the ghetto [Chorus] Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 2] From across the seas comes cocaine But you never seen a Black man fly the plane Look at the news, a young Black death Was it drug related? Take a guess I flash when I look in the mirror, black 'Cause my reflection is a nine millimeter gat I think about genocide And have thoughts of my homies who died Everybody backstabbing But I ain't the one to talk, I'm into gaffling Death give a shit about your color But yet I see more dead young brothers I'm going crazy out here Seeing twenty-four brothers die by the end of the year And I still gotta deal with the 5-0 And I stopped selling dope in 9-0 But if I came to it, I'd 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 more 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 making niggas feel like Jell-O And welcome to the ghetto [Chorus] Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto Make me want to holler, the way they do my life Welcome to the ghetto [Outro] Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 3] Ain't no justice, it's just us And any nigga with the guts loves to bust At the police, niggas 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 ounce, a key, a pound Suicide was a notion, sometimes I wanna run and dive in the ocean But killin' 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, fuck the police 'Cause they beat Rodney King like a savage beast Now motherfuckers on my block think it's GLOCK time Open up season on cop time So welcome to the ghetto Where niggas try to play your ass 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 every time I wanna max I'm on a motherfucker's property Make me wanna get the gat to and peel a cap too, I gives a fuck about the tattoo Tears, spendin' years in the P-E-N Cop dead, gone with the wind Fuck love in the ghetto, see 187 thousand G