Said thys is my True ghetto Said thys is my Real ghetto Hey
See, I was born poor like many men who didn't notin' Came to America trying to make sometin' sometin' See we we love huntin' Found my way up to da top like it nothing
And up wit some Puerto Ricans up in Jersey We use to be laa baw and pot see Had a lot after sometin', after union In a couple of in NYC
I remember those days hell was my home When me and mama bed was a big piece a An mi never like and my hair never comb When mama gone a work me go street go
I remember when dem tek me snow cone An mek him likkle dem kick up Jerome I remember when we dem wid pure big stone An the boy Danny pop out something weh chrome
But dats no than to play around me And knew I kept the AK displayed me And I moved out to da eight to find more And I found out Cars more dan weed
I when we run, Fatta get him knee blown An mi friend Richie get, two inna him dome I remember so the avenue tun warzone An, Mickey fly him out, cau she get a loan
(What?) But, go to foreign and go tun Al Capone Mek whole a money and sen in our own Now a we a lock the and, that is well known Yesterday call me pan mi phone Mi say
Wi get di ting dem, dem luck now Mi seven and the whole a dem a duck now (This a story) Wi have whole heap a extra cau we nuh bruk now (True story) Rah, rah, rah, rah
(Said my story) Wi get di ting dem, so dem rate wi (Akon Story) Cau we a tek it to them wicked of (This is my story) And now the whole a live greatly (Real story) Rah, rah, rah, rah Hey
I remember bout '80, explode a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a run road That a long before Laing dem and even Bigga Adams dem a Corporal nuh know the road code
I remember when we rob the shop down the road An rumour it sey the chiney man have a sword But we did have a one pop wey outta board So you the next day mama pot overload
How could be? Shop, shops in the city call me the Never of flee Some hotter po po styll up wit me But then I got up
while I was boxed out Broke us some locked out, they let me out but Two later my brother skrew got shot up And got the whole royal like now wat Rah
Jamaica get screw, tru greed an Politics manipulate and press yutes But we rich now ,so dem caan man notin Cuz a we a mek a nyaam fish an' mutton, ehh
Ova dehso mek mi unnu some'in Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy me cousin An mi here sey TD deh dey but him sey he mi fly down him a get bout dozen 'cause
Wi get di ting dem, dem luck now Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a now (This a story) Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh now (True story) Rah, rah, rah, rah
(Said my story) Wi get di ting dem, so dem rate wi (Akon Story) Cau we a tek it to them wicked of (This is my story)
And now the whole community a greatly (Real story) Rah, rah, rah, rah Hey
I remember those days when was my home When me and mama bed was a big piece a An mi never bathe and my hair never comb When mama a work me go street go roam
I when Danny dem tek me snow cone An mek him bredda dem kick up Jerome I remember when we visit dem wid pure big An the boy Danny pop out something weh full
I when we run, Fatta get him knee blown An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him I remember so the avenue tun inna An' madda fly him out, cau she get a loan
But, go to foreign and go tun Al Capone Mek whole a money and sen in our own Now a we a the city and, that is well known Yesterday Mickey me pan mi phone Mi say