Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
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Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Talking bout the ghetto)
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Funk funky ghetto)
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Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
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Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
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Old school buddies not doing it right
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Every day it's the same
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And it's the same every night
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I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
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If he played me close and tried to test my cool
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Every day I wonder just how I'll die
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Only thing I know is how to survive
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There's only one rule in the real world
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And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
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Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
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Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
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Black man tried to break into my house again
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Thought he got off early doing time in the pen
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Even though my brothers do me just like that
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I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Talking bout the ghetto)
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Funk funky ghetto)
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So just peep the game and don't call it crap
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'Cause to me, life is one hard rap
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Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
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She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
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600 Million on a football team
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And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
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The story I tell is so incomplete
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Five kids in the house and no food to eat
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Don't look at me and don't ask me why
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Mama's next door getting high
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Even though she's got five mouths to feed
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She's rather spend her money on a h-i-t
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I always tell the truth about things like this
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I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
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Instead of adding to the task force send some help
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Waiting on him I'd better help myself
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Housing authority and the O.P.D
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All these guns just to handle me in the
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Talking bout the ghetto)
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Funk funky ghetto)
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Even though they put us down and call us animals
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We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
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Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
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Never really saying just who we are
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We use alias names like too $hort
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Sell you stuff you might kill for
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Young kids grow up and that's all they know
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Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
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Only thing he knows is how to survive
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But will he kill another brother before he dies?
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In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
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All day long, just hoping and hoping
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You can pay your bills and not drink too much
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Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
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Like me, but you don't see
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Ten years from now, where will you be?
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Talking bout the ghetto)
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Funk funky ghetto)
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So much game in a too $hort rap
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Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
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Why you wanna act like someone else?
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All you gotta do is just be yourself
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We're all the same color underneath
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Short dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
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Never be ashamed of what you are
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Proud to be black stand tall at heart
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Even though some people give you no respect
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Be intelligent, when you put em in check
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Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
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And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
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So if you don't listen it's not my fault
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I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
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Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
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While me and my peoples try to get out
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Talking bout the ghetto)
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The ghetto
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The ghetto
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(Funk funky ghetto)
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The Ghetto
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| George Benson |
