A lot of things have changed since I grown up
 Half my brothaz got locked  half got blown UP!
 From playin' '2 hands touch'and the games in the street
 But the games ain't the same  now we playin' with heat
 SEE THIS DANGER! In my building  they're rollin' dice there
 Ain't nuthin' nice there  who dare with ice there?!
 My hallway ain't right  wrong way to the thugs in the doorway
 Peace  kid I'm out, NO DOUBT! We just hangin' on the corner
 Puffin' trees as tryin' to stay warm, sippin' ??? Jezus!
 Problems after problem, it keeps involvin'
 They got us starvin', that's why we out rottin'
 (Knah'm sayin'?)
 These days I can't remember like the 6th of December
 I think it was September nah, maybe it was November (what?!)
 This kid got rocked, just was steppin' on some sneakers
 Heard from Tamica, he's gettin' buried in a speaker
 Cuz his mom's was on that *inhaling*, gettin' laced
 She got SMOKIN' IT! She took one bad hit

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 Aiyyo (YO!), you can't escape the ghetto
 Hell no, it's everywhere you go
 Aiyyo (YO!), you can't escape the ghetto
 Hell no, it's everywhere you go
 Aiyyo (YO!), you can't escape the ghetto
 Hell no, it's everywhere you go
 Aiyyo (YO YO!), you can't escape the ghetto
 Hell no, it's everywhere you go

 [Sonsee]
 I'm not your rolemodel, I drink the whole bottle
 Dont' follow nobody, cuz you'll never know tomorrow
 Just look around, EVERYWHERE!, it's dispersed
 It ain't no care, hate, and good times is rare
 Or seldom last long, they always fade it
 With my fam is dyin' over money and gettin' incarcerated
 Yeah! Just to be as patistic, it's sadistic
 Too realistic, we doin' this QUIK!
 The other night kids got bad, got 'em kids build intend
 They caught a law's news spread(?)
 Last week they was blazin' on the corner, bullets ricochet
 It's somebody's baby, had they kid maybe dead
 They sold it from the ???, they say delease
 Livin' in the ghetto...rest in peace

 Hates where I'm from, the good tie up
 The sky is grey, we never see sun
 The ghetto-life is: 'live and let live'
 All the day to day

 [Sticky Fingaz]
 It all began when Shorty rocked, took the law in his own hand
 Sick of seein' his mom's gettin' beat up by his old man
 So he did what any kid would've done
 Went into the closet, got his pop's gun
 Who need enemy when you got family?
 It's hard to get a job when you look like me (WORD UP!)
 See people don't just rob cuz they all unemployment
 Some do it for the pure satisfaction enjoyment
 Brrrr, it's cold, this world is freezin'
 Folks get murdered over no-pair raisin'(NO!)
 Packin' they backs, talkin' 'bout they leavin'
 But where ya gonna go? You can't escape THE GHETTO!
 You see more when you HIGH, even less when you LOW
 You can't run from your own ??? home

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