Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We it up y'all, bless the mic with the gods (come on) Precious metals round our necks and (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic the gods to ghetto, backyard to yard We tear it up y'all, the mic with the gods (come on) Precious round our necks and arms (yea) We tear it up y'all, bless the mic the gods
(Hook: Hamilton) Whatever in your heart is where you to be My is the ghetto Even you look Its what you see My is the ghetto been down before up is just a reach Cause my is the ghetto Catch a second Then again My is the ghetto
(Verse 1: Common) Black in the hood, its tragic but understood Crack addicts, windows, crack wood Even whats bad good, status becomes stood Upon the pedestal to the ghetto show buildings, pissy hallways filled with children pushing Fiends peeling, shit seems real and What's real is the of mind that we're in The feels great My man peels weight, so he can plates You get love but you still feel hate Through and plates, we communicate Chicago to brooklyn nigga real ones do
(Verse 2: Kweli) If sold then truth be told probably be just as rich and famous as jay-z Truthfully I wanna like common sense best thing I do a record with common sense Cause its the music, its blues, its jazz, its Soul, and roll the hip hop we be producing yea It's the gear, the flare, it's the stare Nowadays they'll shot you where they to shoot the fair Remember the lost soldiers, a beer, shoot the air We got our own elected officials, no matter who the I know you know what I'm talking From New to the South, off your shoes when you walk in the house
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(Verse 3: Kweli) Yo I grew up where 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 prison you see bars a lot I feel the spirit in the dark and hear it in my And always keep my ears to the block I dearly depart Hip hop is the art We have to express the part of that make us to martyr ourselves It ain't harder to tell when you up and put the hammer to you They want them dead presidents Stickman and Mutulu With a gun to your jaw, 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 him say a prayer under his breath, he cursed me Niggaz is thirsty, I heard it's a Up early, serving from their grandmother's Sometime the feels 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 the block keep blocking You try to moves, its like the car just keep stopping We shorties in the court, need yea I tell them why the weed popping, in the you need options No time for watching, me and kwe keep for the ghetto
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