Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We it up y'all, bless the mic with the gods (come on) Precious metals round our and arms (yea) We it up y'all, bless the mic with the gods Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the (come on) Precious metals our necks and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic the gods
(Hook: Hamilton) in your heart is where you want to be My hood is the Even when you Its what you see My is the ghetto I've been down before up is a reach my hood is the ghetto Catch a second Then again My is the ghetto
(Verse 1: Common) Black magic in the hood, its but understood addicts, crack windows, crack wood Even whats bad becomes good, becomes stood Upon the pedestal welcome to the ghetto Federal buildings, pissy hallways children pushing children Fiends lips peeling, shit seems and real is the estate of mind that we're in The situation feels My man weight, so he can fill plates You might get love but you still feel and chain plates, we communicate Chicago to brooklyn nigga real ones do
(Verse 2: Kweli) If lyrics sold then truth be I'll probably be just as and famous as jay-z Truthfully I rhyme like common sense Next best thing I do a with common sense its the music, its blues, its jazz, its acoustics Soul, rock and the hip hop we be producing yea It's the gear, the flare, it's the stare Nowadays shot you where they used to shoot the fair the lost soldiers, pour a beer, shoot the air We got our own elected officials, no who the mayor I know you know I'm talking about New York to the South, take off shoes when you walk in the house
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(Verse 3: Kweli) Yo I grew up where they're skele in the parking lot And sell of Aaliyah, BIG and Pac up in the barbershop Buildings too big so you really see the stars a lot But rapping, drinking, and to you see them bars a lot I feel the spirit in the and hear it in my heart And keep my ears to the block till I dearly depart Hip hop is the art We have to the part of ourselves that make us want to ourselves It ain't harder to tell somebody stick you up and put the to you They want them dead presidents Stickman and Mutulu With a gun to jaw, these kids don't run anymore Kicks is a hundred or
(Verse 4: Common) A man in front of the store, begging for and mercy I told him say a prayer under his breath, he me Niggaz is thirsty, I heard a drought Up early, from their grandmother's house the ghetto feels desolate, yo the of the hood yo is desperate Effected by the deficit, times and get hard get by or get god, but but you try to get by It's like the block keep You try to moves, its like the car just keep stopping We shorties in the court, need yea I tell why the weed seeds popping, in the game you options No for feet watching, me and kwe rocking for the ghetto
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