Uhhh  shhhh
 Don't say nothin' just listen (For all y'all ghetto people out there)
 Through like all the bloodshed
 And all the tears and all the homies I done lost (Calliope Projects)
 Ain't nothing like the ghetto
 If I had to do it all again
 I probably wouldn't change a thing
 Master P:
 I live my life homie  but not for greed
 Picture young sistes and brothers planting their ghetto seeds
 Ain't nothing promised in this ghetto but we lost cause we black
 Picture 5 kids in the project in a one room shack
 I had big dreams of making it big
 I caught nightmares of fools splittin' my wig
 I couldn't change for the guppies that tried to hate
 Picture me a ghetto child with a house by the lake
 Ain't nothing promised but we not to blame
 Sinning, uhh to make some change
 I wish the society feel my pain
 Empty me underneath we all the same
 High construction on penatentiary bars
 They main focus is blacks with fancy cars
 And they beat us on high interest loans
 Repossess our property cause we don't think to own
 Chorus (4x):
 This ghetto live got us hustlin' and scufflin'
 I said penatentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'
 Bun-B:
 Now I was known for walking on the wrong side of the tracks
 Slanging, smoking and drinking yack, reminiscing and thinking back
 A lot of facts have been changed we take the innocent and guilty
 I played the cards that they dealed me
 Went through changes that dealed me
 Into a better man but most often I'm misunderstood
 Call me a gangsta 'cause I relay consciousness from the hood
 But alot of good comes from what you call negativity
 We working with no leverage or incentive g
 'Cause their nothing you ever give to me
 On television or them history books
 Got black kids thinking they only out on this earth to be crooks
 See all these mystery looks, that's on the face of the boss man
 When he can see a young black brother no longer lost man
 They try to break your spirit, before you figure out the game
 By the time you do you lost your fame, reputation and your name
 But baby we can do it take your time do it right
 You don't wanna be a superstar overnight
 Trying to live that ghetto life
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 Pimp C:
 I live my life for my son so he can have something
 Blessed just to see a new day so I'm trying to grab something
 I been on top of the world and at the bottom too
 When you up you got lots of friends and when you down it's few
 The way we grew up was wrong, I'm the first to admit
 I know God and just drop me here to be going through this
 I lost D-Ray last year and it's just not the same
 Just at the time in his life when he was trying to change
 He told me, Pimp I need help, I want up out the game
 I made a promise, I lied cause the next night he died
 I guess our childhood is over 'cause man ain't nothing funny
 And everythign that I love revolve around sex and money
 I wanna have some more kids but in the 90's that's crazy
 The woman's polluted so it ain't safe to make babies
 And it's a shame cause Uncle Sam ain't got no job to pay me
 But pay the mightiest 40 g's for every year they enslave me
 It's crazy
 Chorus (Repeat 'til Fades