Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We it up y'all, bless the mic with the gods (come on) Precious metals our necks and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, the mic with the gods Ghetto to ghetto, backyard to We tear it up y'all, the mic with the gods (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 you want to be My is the ghetto Even you look Its never you see My is the ghetto I've been down before up is a reach Cause my hood is the Catch a wind begin again My hood is the
(Verse 1: Common) Black magic in the hood, its but understood addicts, crack windows, crack wood Even bad becomes good, status becomes stood Upon the pedestal welcome to the show Federal buildings, pissy filled with pushing children Fiends lips peeling, seems real and What's real is the of mind that we're in The situation feels My man weight, so he can fill plates You might get but you still feel hate Through and plates, we communicate Chicago to brooklyn nigga real ones do
(Verse 2: Kweli) If lyrics sold then be told I'll probably be just as rich and famous as Truthfully I wanna rhyme like sense Next best thing I do a record with sense Cause its the music, its blues, its jazz, its Soul, rock and the hip hop we be producing yea It's the gear, it's the flare, the stare Nowadays they'll shot you where they used to the fair the lost soldiers, pour a beer, shoot the air We got our own elected officials, no matter who the I know you know what I'm talking New York 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 skele in the parking lot And sell of Aaliyah, BIG and Pac up in the barbershop too big so you don't really see the stars a lot But rapping, drinking, and to you see them bars a lot I feel the spirit in the dark and it in my heart And always keep my ears to the block till I dearly Hip hop is the art We have to express the of ourselves that make us want to martyr It ain't to tell when somebody you up and put the hammer to you They want them dead like Stickman and Mutulu With a gun to your jaw, these kids don't run Kicks is a or more
(Verse 4: Common) A man in front of the store, for money and mercy I him say a prayer under his breath, he cursed me is thirsty, I heard it's a drought Up early, from their grandmother's house the ghetto feels desolate, yo the eyes of the hood yo is Effected by the deficit, 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 make moves, its like the car just keep We shorties in the court, need yea I them why the weed seeds popping, in the you need options No for feet watching, me and kwe rocking for the ghetto
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