Fool I'm a vet you can bet that I could dance underwater and not get wet (check it) Its rainin' bullets and I'm still there young ghetto nigga in a wheelchair niggas used to come and get me

Harlem once was red line district rated Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David And you wonder why people don't own their homes 'Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin' mortgage a loan Until after the invasion of gentrification Eminent domain

Believe in your dreams Believe you and me, don't let go We're living it up I was born uptown of the ghetto dream But have you made it out Out of the ghetto? We're having a good time baby Now ain't life crazy? Daddy made it out

I don't know what you came to do, girl What you came to do tonight But I came to party Ghetto girls (la, la, la) Suburban girls (la, la, la) International girls, you smell me? (la, la, la, la) You're probably thinking to yourself, what's the occasion?

Ghetto, mi seh the ghetto dem tired of crying Which path mi grow Ghetto, bare mad people mi know Ghetto, wickeder than action show Hungry days wi know Ghetto, pon crackers and water wi grow Ghetto, if a badness wi a pro Long rifle a shrub out Regular

My ghetto gospel Those who wish to follow me I welcome with my hands And the red sun sinks at last Into the hills of gold And peace to this young warrior Without the sound of guns Uh, hit em with a little ghetto gospel If I could recollect before my hood

I'm ghetto, excuse me My life is a movie Yeah, I'm ghetto, excuse me Can't make no excuses Excuse me, excuse me Yeah, I came from the mud Came from the bottom Spot 'em, I got 'em I bought a bandana for 600 dollars

Through the day and night Yeah, day and night It's a vibe, yeah Feeling right, yeah Keep it quiet Got a nigga throwed (yuh, yuh) So much ice, yeah Fantasize, yeah Through the day and night, got a nigga so

Not tear gas nor baton charge That stops you taking the city Ghetto defendant It is heroin pity Starved in metropolis Hooked on necropolis Addict of metropolis Do the worm on the accropolis Slamdance the cosmopolis

I go to the grave before I be a bitch nigga Better behave: you dealin' with some rich niggas Started in the ghetto, now we worldwide Multiplying and I pray to God we never die This is for the soldiers that see the sun at midnight, ya dig Let me slow down