Ghetto to ghetto, backyard to We tear it up y'all, the mic with the gods (come on) metals round our necks and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the (come on) Precious metals round our and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the
(Hook: Hamilton) Whatever in your heart is where you to be My hood is the when you look Its never you see My hood is the I've been down before up is a reach Cause my is the ghetto Catch a wind Then begin My is the ghetto
(Verse 1: Common) Black in the hood, its tragic but understood Crack addicts, crack windows, wood Even bad becomes good, status becomes stood Upon the pedestal to the ghetto show buildings, pissy hallways filled with pushing children Fiends lips peeling, shit seems and What's real is the estate of mind we're in The feels great My man peels weight, so he can plates You might get love but you still feel and chain plates, we communicate Chicago to brooklyn nigga ones do relate
(Verse 2: Kweli) If lyrics then truth be told I'll probably be as rich and famous as jay-z Truthfully I wanna like common sense Next thing I do a record with common sense Cause its the music, its blues, its jazz, its Soul, rock and roll the hip hop we be yea It's the gear, it's the flare, it's the Nowadays shot you where they used to shoot the fair Remember the soldiers, pour a beer, shoot the air We got our own elected officials, no matter who the I know you what I'm talking about From New to the South, take off your shoes when you in the house
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(Verse 3: Kweli) Yo I grew up where they're playing skele in the 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 the spirit in the dark and hear it in my heart And always my ears to the block till I dearly depart Hip hop is the art We to express the part of ourselves that make us want to martyr It harder to tell when somebody stick you up and put the to you They want them dead presidents Stickman and Mutulu With a gun to your jaw, kids don't run anymore Kicks is a or more
(Verse 4: Common) A man in front of the store, begging for money and I told him say a under his breath, he cursed me is thirsty, I heard it's a drought Up early, serving from their house Sometime the ghetto desolate, yo the eyes of the hood yo is by the deficit, times and lessons get hard get by or get god, but but you try to get by It's like the keep blocking You try to moves, its like the car just keep stopping We in the court, need cochran yea I tell them why the weed popping, in the you need options No time for watching, me and kwe keep rocking for the
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