A young hog in the hood playin' chase, on his face Havin' fun 'cuz it ain't nothin' this place and you don't wanna race Fool I got the new on And we can run from the corner to the Newman's
And that we goin' go raid the plum tree And stick ball where those bos be got the door open bumpin' Marvin Gaye Let's get it on all day
At night I pray, Lord, let me make it And if I die before I Then my soul, you it fake it
My older brother taught me And sometimes let the young soldier hang As a loc, my only duty was to And pass it on to my comrade and closest All I knew about it as a child I proud have you ever seen a ghetto smile?
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why the homies smile for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto there's a roamin' through the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey
I'm at the junior actin' bad at the dance The slow jam got me with a woody in my And baby with me, her Momma used to me And then she was just plain old pretty
But nowadays it seems like she done Jeans fitting and her perm gotta hella Would I be wrong if I and take her down And maybe play house sitter with her the Pound
It's goin' down about now in the Bay The OG's put it and make they pay Flip a 68 'stang the blew out braids The only homey in the hood on thangs
And as I it thangs have got a little deeper And and their Momma done bought a beeper And then they post on the lake gettin' and wild You know the it's the ghetto smile
In the ghetto a smile roamin' through the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto a smile roamin' through the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey
At 18 I and now I'm grown About time for the dog to get his own I left got a condo out on Quail ridge And like a king is how young playa live
Swimmin' parties in the pool with my dope to trippin' off nathin' we was all folks Hillside in the and we gettin' perved Freestylin' gettin' on my nerves
I the hood so everyday I'm back to visit And swoop the young so that can come through and kick it And peep the game as I did as a kid And watch the get his cabbage and place his bid
And though we fight we still remain game tight Handle business and open for forgiveness It ain't nothin' like a homey you ain't seen in So when you him greet him with that ghetto smile
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto In the ghetto a smile, oh All the smiles for me, ghetto
a ghetto in the sky, ghetto in the sky But all the smile for me, ghetto The smile, the ghetto smile Homies for me And the smile for me