A young hog in the hood playin' chase, on his face Havin' fun 'cuz it nothin' like this place and you don't wanna race I got the new ones on And we can run from the to the Newman's home
And after that we go raid the plum tree And stick ball down where bos be Mom's got the open bumpin' Marvin Gaye get it on all day everyday
At night I pray, Lord, just let me it And if I die I wake Then my soul, you it Never it
My older taught me game And even let the young soldier hang As a loc, my only was to soak And pass it on to my and closest folks All I knew about it as a child I stood proud have you ever seen a smile?
In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' the streets Why don't the homies smile for me? Ghetto, hey, In the ghetto there's a smile roamin' through the Why don't the smile for me? Ghetto, hey
I'm at the high actin' bad at the dance The slow jam got me with a in my pants And baby with me, her Momma used to me And back she was just plain old pretty
But nowadays it seems like she done Jeans fitting and her perm gotta long I be wrong if I whisper and take her down And maybe play house sitter with her the Pound
goin' down about now in the Northern Bay The OG's put it down and make pay Flip a 68 with the blew out braids The only homey in the hood on thangs
And as I peep it thangs have got a deeper And everybody and Momma done bought a beeper And they post on the lake gettin' loose and wild You know the it's the ghetto smile
In the ghetto there's a smile through the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto, hey, yeah In the ghetto there's a smile through the streets Why the homies smile for me? Ghetto, hey
At 18 I and now I'm grown time for the dog to get his own bone I home got a condo out on Quail ridge And like a king is how this young playa
Swimmin' parties in the with my dope to roll Wasn't trippin' off nathin' we was all Hillside in the and we gettin' perved Freestylin' gettin' on my nerves
I love the hood so everyday I'm back to And swoop the young so that they can 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 still remain tight Handle business and always open for It ain't nothin' like a homey you ain't seen in So when you meet him him with that ghetto smile
In the ghetto there's a roamin' through the streets Why don't the homies for me? Ghetto In the there's a smile, oh All the homies smiles for me,
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