A young hog in the hood playin' chase, on his face Havin' fun 'cuz it ain't nothin' like this place and you wanna race I got the new ones on And we can run from the to the Newman's home
And after that we goin' go raid the tree And stick ball where those bos be Mom's got the door open Marvin Gaye get it on all day everyday
At night I pray, Lord, just let me it And if I die before I Then my soul, you it Never it
My older taught me game And sometimes even let the young hang As a loc, my only duty was to And it on to my comrade and closest folks All I knew about it as a child I stood proud have you ever a ghetto smile?
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto there's a roamin' through the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto, hey
I'm at the junior actin' bad at the dance The slow jam got me a woody in my pants And baby with me, her Momma to babysit me And back then she was plain old pretty
But nowadays it seems like she done Jeans fitting and her perm gotta long Would I be wrong if I whisper and her down And maybe play house sitter with her like the
It's goin' about now in the Northern Bay The put it down and make they pay a 68 'stang with the blew out braids The homey in the hood ridin' on thangs
And as I it thangs have got a little deeper And and their Momma done bought a beeper And they post on the lake gettin' loose and wild You know the scene the ghetto smile
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto there's a roamin' through the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto, hey
At 18 I graduated and now I'm time for the dog to get his own bone I left got a condo out on Quail ridge And like a king is how this playa live
Swimmin' parties in the pool with my dope to Wasn't trippin' off we was all folks in the house and we gettin' perved Freestylin' gettin' on my neighbor's
I love the hood so everyday I'm to visit And the young so that they can come through and kick it And peep the just as I did as a kid And the savage get his cabbage and place his bid
And even though we fight we remain game tight Handle and always open for forgiveness It ain't like a homey you ain't seen in awhile So when you meet him greet him with that ghetto
In the ghetto there's a roamin' through the streets Why the homies smile for me? Ghetto In the there's a smile, oh All the smiles for me, ghetto
There's a ghetto in the sky, in the sky But all the smile for me, ghetto The ghetto smile, the ghetto smile for me And the smile for me