It's out here Yo mama, I'm tryin to keep my strong up Mystikal?
I'm just a child trying to make it I'm just a child trying to make it
This ghetto got me Mama, won't you pray for baby? I'm just a child trying to make it Mama, I'm a ghetto child trying to make it
I feel a bird nigga with no wings I'm stuck in this ghetto trying to a little change My homies up each other 'cause we gotta eat And I ain't tripping 'cause I'm running from the
I done seen little kids in the projects I done seen hoes messing then Marvin See in the the sun it barely shines But so many niggas in jail and the welfare
And all my life I Bill Clinton ran the country Until I found out Gates had all the money And the media starting east and west wars I'm from the south, where prejudice on us all
Come out of the powdered milk and eggs don't us up But why the government sold us drugs and to clean us up Gave us three halves and interest student loans dollar minimum wage and section eight, we call it home
This ghetto got me Mama, won't you pray for your I'm just a child trying to make it Mama, I'm a ghetto child trying to make it
This ghetto got me Mama, won't you pray for your I'm a ghetto child trying to make it Mama, I'm just a child trying to make it
It's real when you can do whatever you to do you want to do it Ain't to many niggas out there living that That's why the rest of you ain't never gone through it
How niggas in the pen? How many niggas in the cemetery know why? How many strikes niggas need? How many innocent in the ghetto got to lose their lives?
Why, why you gotta make your momma Huh, she take you out of the 'cause where you gonna die But you won't cause your mind is one track
And your head is And your flipped, and your talking back Showing your ashy act, ass straight up off the talk to y'all, don't think it's too hard to fall But far and all
And sore and all, cool when it started off Now niggas ducking bullets like dodge Niggas got me scared to plant my seeds, of high's gonna grow in a messed up time, a messed up court
I'm telling ya, you do shit no more It's bigger us, it's out of our hands why I'm praying to God Oh Father, keep my head above the water
'Cause it's Your and we your children Your and Your daughters We struggling, trying to get out of the to make it to mars!!!
This got me crazy Mama, won't you pray for your I'm just a ghetto child trying to it Mama, I'm just a ghetto child to make it
ghetto got me crazy Mama, won't you pray for your I'm just a child trying to make it Mama, I'm just a child trying to make it
Dear mama, for your son Hoping I can make it this game I can change, I've been through so much Seen so many things, couldn't the words to explain
The way to avoid stress is to get high By Hennessey but I but I can't get too high Cause I gotta my eyes on my enemies I've seen harder times, but there gonna be harder days
Penitentiary close, but you know Cemetery's ain't far away I die I'm trying to make the whole world feel Like our people scared to there
The way we express ourself, think that we all some killers But look into the eyes of a ghetto child influenced by the Go to to gunshots, wake up from the sirens of the police See now my life ain't been the same nigga, as a thug
If I had to a picture of my life I have to my picture in blood homie died, before he die little cousin told me this Get you something 'cause Packed of niggas who had dreams to be rich
So keep your head up, to all my children it was hard To my family one day I was gonna grow up to make millions When I told them, they seemed to at my so called dream I like to scream I came home from jail
When I was told friend turned into a fiend I ain't gonna lie, my conscience ain't clear, when I close my Of course you gotta realize, God forgive me, I'm trying to survive
They cut welfare and health care, that gotta stop I got a positive note, my having a baby Congratulations, she on
This got me crazy Mama, won't you for your baby? I'm just a child trying to make it Mama, I'm a ghetto child trying to make it
This got me crazy Mama, you pray for your baby? I'm just a ghetto child trying to it Mama, I'm just a ghetto trying to make it