(Intro) Always had big Everybody had big dreams I wanna stay here, I had no intentions And I had no plans (Chorus) my life, Gotta how to survive Just can't these streets will eat you alive, (ghetto burbs) Cause I'm from two worlds, (ghetto burbs) Coming from these burbs. (Verse) Yo yo, ghetto burbs I'm from the ghetto Jerz where the pedal is served Use hand, justice for Pick up the LA, they was ahead of the My gang bang You could get left the curb Yea I was raised here, but I'm tryna Police is yea, the strippers is escorts Like my homey Layla, really I knock her Cause she paper, month ago she was knocked up Baby your dope boy, fresh homey was locked up But he on the same shit, fucked around and got up You mind saying mind, I'm like why he even At the same don't know what he was a part of And Layla over the casket, see this harder The went again, another summon the father Gotta it astride, round here it's the usual But I ain't accustomed, that shit I get used to I'm tryna (Chorus) my life, Gotta know how to Just hide these streets will eat you alive, (ghetto burbs) Cause I'm in two worlds, (ghetto burbs) Coming from ghetto burbs. (Verse) Yo, ghetto burbs I'm from the ghetto with where the ghetto's disturbed, you can be dead and not heard Say you're predaly, and ended better or worse I lost faith but still keep her head up in church is sky high, employment is real low Little kid rap, but will he get a deal? No Cause poverty slow, belief is beyond you 7-9'er every 10 bitches here got the like my lil homey Tania I met her in freak nik, yea The same bitch the niggas be all out in the with Open, in love the service But she got resentment, she see from the surface So like so many women right so she worship Caught aids from rape and thought her whole was worthless Hoe couldn't know how gorgeous her is She fuckin em raw and hope they it on purpose You survive (Chorus) my life, Gotta how to survive can't hide The will eat you alive, (ghetto burbs) Cause I'm from two worlds, (ghetto burbs) Coming from ghetto burbs. (Verse) burbs I'm from the ghetto with Jerz I ain't tryna act like my part of the the worst Niggas is pricks here, they'll buy stilettos for How did I get They act like the men who don't hurt Dude getting high, guess they tryna escape it Won't commit suicide, assuming they take it The streets is cold, still we runnin naked Success is avoid and we replace it hatred That's your homey from way back, from showing the oh The turnin green even that after we're old You kid? No, values to sheer clothes Now you struggle for rent and he got ice in his ear Your man won't even extend a hand, meeting all his goals You need a whole nother plan, career's broke Valuables are more valuable everything, even value the dudes Cause you survive (Chorus x2) my life, Gotta know how to Just hide streets will eat you alive, (ghetto burbs) Cause I'm in two worlds, (ghetto burbs) Coming from ghetto burbs. (Outro) I'm the ghetto burbs Gotta how to survive eat you up Coming from the ghetto Said the streets eat you alive, yea yea yea Coming from the burbs yea