Welcome To The Ghetto (Radio Edit)

[Intro] Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 1] Livin' day by day in my hood on the spot See the same old things, same dope fiends, cops Just an average day in the streets of California 5-0 found a young girl dead around the corner Mommy's on her knees, she had tears in her eyes And nobody knew why the young girl had to die People look ashamed, it's been life this for years Bloody sheets on her body, face wet from her mama's tears She couldn'ta been over four or five And if mommy wasn't based, she would still be alive But now thе street is a place you could be swallowed by dеath Brothas taking each other's lives and going to rest in peace I wonder if heaven got a ghetto My cousin died last year and I still can't let it go I walk the streets of my city of my neighborhood Seeing dope fiends livin' off canned goods Fifteen brothas on the corner And brothas die young in California 5-0'll get a dope case and flaunt it Have you on America's Most Wanted But I don't slang or even gangbang And though my old school homies do the same thang I still got love 'cause you gotta live, so you can give And raise a family, G But you gotta do your best slangin' D-O-P-E So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow And welcome to the ghetto [Chorus] Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 2] From across the seas comes cocaine But you never seen a Black man fly the plane Look at the news, a young Black death Was it drug related? Take a guess I flash when I look in the mirror, black 'Cause my reflection is a 9 millimeter gat I think about genocide And have thoughts of my homies who died Everybody backstabbin' But I ain't the one to talk, I'm into gafflin' Death don't care about your color But yet I see more dead young brothas I'm going crazy out here Seeing twenty-four brothas die by the end of the year And I still gotta deal with the 5-0 And I stopped sellin' dope in '9-0 But if I came to it, I'd probably still do it Put a 9 in my drawers, get straight to it I hope that I never see the day That I get twenty years for a cake BKA as a ki To open up the door for the mo' money But I ain't gotta do that, G 'Cause I'm down with the F-A to the C To the U to the L-T-Y G-Nut, Xtra Large and S-P-I- C-E in the house, my fellow And welcome to the ghetto [Chorus] Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto [Verse 3] Ain't no justice, it's just us And every brother with the guts lust to bust At the police 'cause we can't get peace Sending troops to the ghetto like the Middle East My homie on the block got beat down And he never sold an ounce, a ki, a pound Suicide was the notion Sometimes I wanna run and dive in the ocean But killing myself ain't the answer 'Cause the problems of the world need a cure like cancer And everybody sees the problem but the president But he ain't living in the ghetto so it's evident I quit pulling over for the police 'Cause they beat Rodney King like a savage beast Now my brothers on the block think it's Glock time Open up season on cop time So welcome to the ghetto Where you could straight get played out like a cello The mayor got the projects boarded up And the whites and the Blacks all sorted up My people living in poverty And every time I wanna max, I'm on somebody property Make me wanna get the gat, too, and peel a cap, too But I ain't down for the tattoo Tears, spending years in the P-E-N And I'm just another brother in the wind No love in the ghetto, see 1-87 thousand, G [Chorus] Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto Make me wanna holler the way they do my life, yeah Welcome to the ghetto [Outro] Welcome to the ghetto