Ghetto to ghetto, backyard to We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the (come on) metals round our necks and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic with the 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 the gods
(Hook: Hamilton) Whatever in your heart is you want to be My hood is the Even when you Its what you see My hood is the I've been before up is just a reach my hood is the ghetto Catch a wind Then again My is the ghetto
(Verse 1: Common) Black magic in the hood, its tragic but Crack addicts, crack windows, crack Even whats bad becomes good, becomes stood Upon the pedestal to the ghetto show Federal buildings, hallways filled with pushing children lips peeling, shit seems real and What's is the estate of mind that we're in The situation great 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 do relate
(Verse 2: Kweli) If lyrics sold then be told I'll be just as rich and famous as jay-z Truthfully I wanna like common sense Next best thing I do a record with 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 they'll shot you they used to shoot the fair Remember the lost soldiers, pour a beer, the air We got our own elected officials, no who the mayor I know you know what I'm talking New York to the South, take off your shoes when you walk in the
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(Verse 3: Kweli) Yo I up where they're playing skele in the parking lot And sell of Aaliyah, BIG and Pac up in the barbershop Buildings too big so you don't really see the 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 express the of ourselves make us want to martyr ourselves It ain't harder to when somebody you up and put the hammer to you They want them dead presidents like 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 money and I told him say a prayer under his breath, he me Niggaz is thirsty, I it's a drought Up early, serving from grandmother's house Sometime the ghetto desolate, yo the of the hood yo is desperate Effected by the deficit, times and lessons get get by or get god, but but you try to get by It's like the block keep You try to make moves, its like the car keep stopping We in the court, need cochran yea I tell them why the seeds popping, in the game you options No time for watching, me and kwe keep rocking for the
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