(feat. Rick James)
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[Busta Rhymes]
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Y'know, my homey Treach from Naughty By Nature once said
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If you ain't from the ghetto, don't COME to the fucking ghetto
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But I'm gonna let one of our most immaculate tour guides
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take us ALL through the ghetto - my nigga Rick James!
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[Rick James - sampled from "Ghetto Life" + (backup singers)]
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When I was a young boy, growing up in the ghetto!
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Hangin out on corners, singin with the fellas
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Lookin for the cute chicks, trying to find me big fun
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Lookin for some trouble, or anyone who'll give me some
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I was young and crazy! (In the ghetto)
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Didn't know what my life would be (In the ghetto)
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I was dumb and oh so lazy (In the ghetto)
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Something had a spell on me (In the ghetto)
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You all know what I'm talking 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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(Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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[Busta Rhymes]
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(In the ghetto) Sure we be Taking them chances
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While we search for the answers we be smoking them cancer sticks
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Police provoking motherfuckers we dancing
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And we be dodging them bullets they be poppin off at us, shit
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But yet we always romance the street
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And fall in love with the hood 'til somebody come blast the heat
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Always up to no good, so all of my fam could eat
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See in the hood we hungry - hey nigga we playing for keeps
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My soldiers on the block get on it
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It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it
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See niggas from the ghetto got a different state of mind
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With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind
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And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine
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In the struggle, thus our money come quicker doing crime
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I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me
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You can take me out the ghetto, but you can't take it from me
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Gotta love it
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[Chorus: Rick James + (backup singers)]
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(Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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[Busta Rhymes]
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(In the ghetto) That's where we get into that street shit
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Hustle hard, try to get money quick (In the ghetto)
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That's where I got my name from
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I learned to get money and I got all my game from (In the ghetto)
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That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves
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And get to hustling as hard as you could (In the ghetto)
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Until your cake stacking shit'll get good
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Throw a block party for the whole hood (In the ghetto)
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With them burnout cellys
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Talk crazy, sell drugs in front of Pancho Deli
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Crackhead chicks still smoke with babies in they belly
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And them piss in elevators 'til the lobby all smelly (In the ghetto)
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That's where I keep my ratchets
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Get my instincts and survival tactics
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Ain't nuttin like the hood nigga, I don't care
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You surviving in the ghetto you can make it anywhere
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Gotta love it
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[Chorus]
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[Interlude: Busta Rhymes]
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To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto
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West coast niggas - rep your ghetto
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Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto
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Down South niggas - rep your ghetto
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To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto
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West coast niggas - rep your ghetto
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Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto
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To my Dirty South niggas - rep your ghetto
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[Busta Rhymes]
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(In the ghetto) Even though they act rude
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You'll always find a good chick to hold a brick for they dude
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Behind the bullshit, me and my clique on the move
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We honor the code of the street, and live by the rules (In the ghetto)
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Is where, all of the hood's at
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Find the most crooks and they sell the most drugs at
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Where you find beautiful women and rugrats
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And some of the most powerful people, I love that!
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C'mon
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[Outro: Rick James + (backup singers)]
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(Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm talking 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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(Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (Talking 'bout ghetto life)
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(In the ghetto)
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"Never mind who you thought I was, I'm Rick James BITCH!" [applause]
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"Cocaine is a hell of a drug"
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