Ghetto to ghetto, backyard to 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, the mic with the gods Ghetto to ghetto, to yard We tear it up y'all, the mic with the gods (come on) metals round our necks and arms (yea) We it up y'all, bless the mic with the gods
(Hook: Hamilton) Whatever in your is where you want to be My hood is the Even you look Its never you see My is the ghetto I've been down before up is a reach my hood is the ghetto Catch a wind Then again My hood is the
(Verse 1: Common) magic in the hood, its tragic but understood Crack addicts, crack windows, wood Even whats bad becomes good, becomes stood Upon the welcome to the ghetto show buildings, pissy hallways filled with children pushing Fiends lips peeling, seems real and What's is the estate of mind that we're in The situation feels My man weight, so he can fill plates You get love but you still feel hate and chain 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 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, it's the flare, it's the Nowadays they'll you where they used to shoot the fair Remember the lost soldiers, pour a beer, the air We got our own officials, no matter who the mayor I know you what I'm talking about From New 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 playing in the parking lot And sell paintings of Aaliyah, BIG and Pac up in the 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 keep my to the block till 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 somebody stick you up and put the to you They want them dead presidents like Stickman and With a gun to your jaw, these kids 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 under his breath, he cursed me is thirsty, I heard it's a drought Up early, serving from grandmother's house the ghetto feels desolate, yo the eyes of the yo is desperate 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 make moves, its like the car keep stopping We shorties in the court, cochran yea I them why the weed seeds popping, in the game you need No for feet watching, me and kwe keep rocking for the
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