You know how the we do it It's shit wit' me? C'mon,
Hey... Once a time in the ghetto you're stuck In the ghetto you're Ah - press your I once upon a time in the ghetto through Once upon a in the ghetto It's you
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(verse 1) My life has been gun blast every night Stop the car, searched down a flashlight "where's the gun? where's the " The drive-by last week they try to pin, there's no Wishin' I wasn't the victim, better yet the to run a warrant check "what set you from? side of town? Nigga like you must be to get down" Hold up now, cause I to speak my mind I question the place of the ride and what "speak mind one more time, you're through" They found a bullet that I in my shoe Fuck, now they gon' up the car Try to me in a cell that's as tight as a jar But that's the way it's down, the gang story's told Tomorrow might be the same
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Once a time n' the ghetto you're through Once upon a n' the ghetto I'm like you upon a time n' the ghetto you're stuck In the ghetto fucked Ah - press your I said...
(verse 2) Y'all can me, see how gangstas walk Real spit the strap and don't talk Set trip, murder at night, we Yellow tape, bodies outlined in the I keeps my enemies Last seen a life straight turn to ghost My position is to roll round-the-clock Keeps watch on the one times down the You hear the click with the bang-bang, you stop Try to run, but the chest makes you drop My comrads and criminals through time I for y'all niggas, pop goes my nine I do the crime, the point is around the clockwork, it ain't hard to find Any block, ward or burrough, you know I speak Your clients all the street if yo' product is weak
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(verse 3) fools come up short on the work and try to cheat us Cold niggas, cold-ass world, catch the Burn you bitch-ass niggas, you can't us life lost, you never will defeat us Gun smoke's the outcome I Locked down, never that, nickel Try to cheat a for dollars, "holla holla" Is the sound that you for cuttin' off the cake niggas, I hate yo' face, niggas Seal your fate, no on the triggers Ditches for the I dump I dig bigger mo' dick to ya than dirk diggler Static cling, bust straps, you ears day, the sad songs to sing Nigga shoulda by now it's mines Step now or will swing
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Hoo-bangin' one time, it out two times, check it out Compton one time, two times, bitch