A young hog in the hood playin' chase, smile on his fun 'cuz it ain't nothin' like this place and you don't wanna race Fool I got the new on And we can run from the corner to the home
And after we goin' go raid the plum tree And stick ball down 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 my soul, you take it Never it
My older taught me game And sometimes even let the soldier hang As a loc, my duty was to soak And it on to my comrade and closest folks All friends I knew about it as a I stood proud have you ever seen a ghetto
In the ghetto a smile roamin' through the streets Why don't the homies smile for me? Ghetto, hey, In the ghetto a smile roamin' through the streets Why the homies smile for me? Ghetto, hey
I'm at the junior high bad at the dance The jam got me with a woody in my pants And baby with me, her Momma to babysit me And back she was just plain old pretty
But nowadays it like she done grown Jeans fitting and her perm gotta hella Would I be wrong if I and take her down And play house sitter with her like the Pound
It's goin' about now in the Northern Bay The OG's put it and make they pay Flip a 68 with the blew out braids The only in the hood ridin' on thangs
And as I it thangs have got a little deeper And everybody and their Momma bought a beeper And they post on the lake gettin' loose and wild You know the scene it's the smile
In the ghetto there's a smile through the streets Why the homies 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 graduated and now I'm About time for the dog to get his own I left got a condo out on Quail ridge And like a king is how this playa live
Swimmin' parties in the pool my dope to roll Wasn't trippin' off nathin' we was all Hillside in the house and we perved Freestylin' gettin' on my neighbor's
I the hood so everyday I'm back to visit And swoop the young so that they can come and kick it And peep the just as I did as a kid And watch the get his cabbage and place his bid
And even though we fight we still remain tight Handle business and always for forgiveness It ain't nothin' a homey you ain't seen in awhile So when you meet him greet him with that ghetto
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why the homies smile for me? Ghetto In the ghetto a smile, oh All the homies 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