A young hog in the hood playin' chase, on his face Havin' fun 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 to the Newman's home
And after we goin' go raid the plum tree And stick ball down those bos be Mom's got the open bumpin' Marvin Gaye Let's get it on all day
At night I pray, Lord, let me make it And if I die I wake my soul, you take it Never it
My older brother me game And sometimes even let the young soldier As a loc, my duty was to soak And pass it on to my comrade and folks All friends I knew it as a child I stood proud you ever seen a ghetto smile?
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' through the Why don't the homies 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 with a woody in my And baby with me, her Momma used to me And back then she was plain old pretty
But nowadays it seems like she done fitting and her perm gotta hella long Would I be wrong if I whisper and her down And maybe play house sitter her like the Pound
goin' down about now in the Northern Bay The OG's put it down and make pay Flip a 68 'stang with the blew out The homey in the hood ridin' on thangs
And as I peep it thangs have got a little And everybody and Momma done bought a beeper And then they post on the lake gettin' loose and You know the scene it's the ghetto
In the ghetto there's a smile through the streets Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto, hey
At 18 I graduated and now I'm About time for the dog to get his own I home got a condo out on Quail ridge And like a king is how this playa live
Swimmin' in the pool with my dope to roll trippin' off nathin' we was all folks Hillside in the house and we perved Freestylin' on my neighbor's nerves
I the hood so everyday I'm back to visit And swoop the young so that they can come through and it And peep the just as I did as a kid And watch the savage get his cabbage and his bid
And even we fight we still remain game tight Handle business and always open for It ain't nothin' like a homey you ain't in awhile So when you meet him greet him that ghetto smile
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' through the Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto In the there's 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