Ghetto Story Chapter 2 (Live)

[Intro: Alicia Keys & John Legend]

Here's my ghetto story (Ooh, c'mon, c'mon, I remember this)

Been in Hell, through the fire

Gonna take it higher

Here's my survival story (Big up to Baby Cham)

So many reasons to sing this

Now we got the keys to the kingdom

[Verse 1: Cham]

I remember those days when Hell was my home

When me and mama bed was a big piece of foam

An mi never like bathe and mi hair never comb

When mama gone a work, me go street, go roam

I remember whеn Danny dem get me snow conе

And make him likkle bredda dem, kick up Jerome

I remember when we visit them wid pure big stone

An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome

I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown

And mi best friend Richie get two inna him dome

I remember saw the avenue turn inna war zone

And Mikey mother fly him out 'cause she get a loan

But Mikey go too far and him go turn Al Capone

Make whole heap a money and say mi, "Now I want"

Now a we can lock the city and that is well known

Yesterday, Mikey call me pon mi phone, mi say, Mikey

We got da ting dem, dem outta luck now

Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now

Mi have whole heap of extra **** 'cause we no bruk now

Rah, rah, rah, rah

[Outro: Alicia Keys & John Legend]

We got the kingdom so you got to make way

We take it from the bottom to the top, baby

And now the whole community can live greatly

Rah, rah, rah, rah

I remember those days when we was dead broke (Uh)

And I could barely find a dollar for a token (Uh, uh)

[Interlude: John Legend & Alicia Keys]

Haha (Ayy)

"Ghetto Story", that's my first vibe

So, let's talk about records that

We were so proud to be a part of that people might not even know we were even on

Ooh, that's a good one

And I gotta take you back to 1998 (Word)

I was a student in college

And I had a friend who was

Who went to high school with Lauryn Hill

And she said, um

"I'm goin' to the studio, Lauryn's workin' on her first solo album

And I just want you to come meet her" (Seriously?)

And, uh (That was crazy)

I, I'm still a student, I'm still goin' to college like a regular kid

And then I go to the studio, and, um, my friend's like

"You know, why don't you play a couple songs for Lauryn?"

I played one of my original songs

Then I played a Stevie Wonder song, uh, "Love's In Need"

You know that song, I'm sure (Yeah, that's the joint)

And Lauryn was workin' on this song with, uh

Vada Nobles and some other folks in there

And, uh, they asked me to play piano on it

So when you're listening to track thirteen on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (That's him)

Here's John Legend (That's him right)