It's out here Yo mama, I'm tryin to keep my head up Mystikal?
I'm just a ghetto trying to make it I'm just a ghetto 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 just a ghetto trying to make it
I like a bird nigga with no wings I'm in this ghetto trying to have a little change My homies up each other 'cause we gotta eat And I tripping 'cause I'm running from the police
I done seen little kids in the projects I seen more hoes messing then Marvin See in the ghetto the sun it shines But so many niggas in and the welfare lines
And all my life I thought Clinton ran the country Until I found out Bill had all the money And the media starting east and west coast I'm from the south, where prejudice on us all
out of the powdered milk and eggs don't fill us up But why the government us drugs and charges to clean us up Gave us three and high interest student loans Four dollar minimum wage and section eight, we it home
This got me crazy Mama, won't you pray for your I'm just a ghetto child to make it Mama, I'm just a ghetto child 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 just a ghetto trying to make it
It's real when you can do you want to do you want to do it Ain't to many niggas out living like that That's why the rest of you niggas ain't never through it
How many niggas in the How niggas in the cemetery don't know why? How many strikes niggas need? How many innocent children in the ghetto got to lose lives?
Why, why you gotta make momma cry? Huh, she you out of the street 'cause that's you gonna die But you won't cause your mind is one track
And your is hard And your getting flipped, and your back Showing your ashy act, ass up off the wall Lemme talk to y'all, don't think too hard to fall But far and all
And sore and all, it's when it started off Now niggas bullets like dodge balls Niggas got me to plant my seeds, fear of high's gonna grow in a messed up time, a messed up court
I'm telling ya, you can't do no more It's than us, it's out of our hands That's why I'm to God Oh heavenly Father, keep my above the water
'Cause it's Your world and we your sons and Your daughters We struggling, trying to get out of the Trying to it to mars!!!
ghetto got me crazy Mama, won't you pray for baby? I'm a ghetto 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 a ghetto child trying to make it
Dear mama, for your son Hoping I can it through this game I can change, I've been through so much Seen so things, couldn't find the words to explain
The only way to avoid is to get high By drinking Hennessey but I but I get too high Cause I gotta keep my eyes on my I've seen harder times, but gonna be some harder days
Penitentiary close, but you what? ain't that far away Before I die I'm trying to make the whole feel Like our people to stand there
The way we express ourself, they think that we all some But look into the eyes of a ghetto child by the street Go to sleep to gunshots, wake up the sirens of the police See now my ain't been the same nigga, life as a thug
If I had to draw a picture of my I to paint my picture in blood homie died, before he die little cousin told me this Get you something cemeteries Packed full of who had dreams to be rich
So your head up, to all my ghetto children it was hard To tell my family one day I was gonna up to make millions I told them, they seemed to laugh 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 realize, God forgive me, I'm just trying to survive
They cut welfare and care, that shit gotta stop I got a note, my auntie having a baby Congratulations, she on
This got me crazy Mama, you pray for your baby? I'm a ghetto child trying to make it Mama, I'm just a ghetto child trying to it
This got me crazy Mama, won't you for your baby? I'm a ghetto child trying to make it Mama, I'm just a ghetto trying to make it