Lil’ Ghetto Boy (Remix)

[Intro: sample]

"The ghetto..." "The ghetto..."

"The ghetto..." "The ghetto..."

"The ghetto..." "The ghetto..."

"The ghetto..." "The ghetto..."

[Verse 1: Snoop Dogg]

Wake up, jumped out my bed

I'm in a two man cell with my homie Lil' 1/2 Dead

Murder was the case that they gave me

Dear God, I wonder, can you save me?

I'm only eighteen, so I'm a young buck

It's a riot, if I don't scrap, I'm gettin' stuck

But that's the life of a G, I guess

Esés way deep, shanked two in the chest

Best run, 'cause brothers is droppin' quicker – uh...

Too late, damn, down goes another nigga

Bouncin' off the walls, throwin' them dogs

Gettin' that rep, as a young hog

It ain't nothin' like the street life

You better be strapped with your shank, 'cause ain't no fist fight

So I guess I gots to handle mine

Since I did the crime, I gots to do my time

[Chorus: O-Genius aka Nino Brown, Daz, (Donny Hathaway sample)]

We run game in the ghetto

We gets high in the ghetto

You'd get shot in the ghetto

You might get stuck in the ghetto

Them say me grow up to be nothin'

Look at me now and tell me what you see

I am what I am, it's only me

("Lil' ghetto boy...")

[Verse 2: Dr. Dre]

Now I'm holdin' a dub, sittin' on swoll'

Twenty-seven years old, up for parole

Stroll – I'm back up on my feet

With my mind on the money that I'll be makin' soon as I touch the streets

Things done changed on this side

Remember they used to thump, but now they blast, right?

But it ain't no thang to me

'Cause now I'm what they call a loc'ed-assed O.G. 

The lil' homies from the hood with grip

Are the ones I get with, 'cause I'm down to set trip

"Nigga, I'm bigger than you, so what you wanna do?"

Didn't know he had a twenty-two

Straight sittin' behind his back

I grabbed his pockets and then I heard six caps

I fell to the ground, with blood on my hands

I didn't understand

How a nigga so young could bust a cap

I used to be the same way back

I guess that's what I get (For what?)

For tryin' to jack the lil' homies for they grip

[Chorus: O-Genius aka Nino Brown, Daz, (Donny Hathaway sample)]

We run game in the ghetto

We gets high in the ghetto

You'd get shot in the ghetto

You might get stuck in the ghetto

Them say me grow up to be nothin'

Look at me now and tell me what you see

I am what I am, it's only me

("Lil' ghetto boy...")

[Verse 3: Snoop Dogg]

Somethin' for the real O.G.'s to get with

Some facts, made our made, now you runnin', but I'm played

Like every single day – really, though

You know me, I'm the smooth mack-a-damien, gamin' them for my homie

No need in bein' calm if you pack right

And learnin' just enough to keep your sack right

Late nights, I wonder what they gettin' for?

Early mornin' on the corners, what they hittin' for?

Seven young G's put they serve down

In a G ride, East Side's where they swerve now

Not thinkin' about what's really goin' on

Got crept on, stepped on, now they gone

I spent four years in the county

With nothin' but convicts around me

But now I'm back at the Pound

And we expose ways for the youth to survive

Some think it's wrong, but we tend to think it's right

So make all them ends you can make

'Cause when you're broke, you break – check it out

So ain't no need for your mama to trip

'Cause you's a hustlin'-ass youngster, clockin' your grip

[Chorus: O-Genius aka Nino Brown, Daz, (Donny Hathaway sample)]

We run game in the ghetto

We gets high in the ghetto

You'd get shot in the ghetto

You might get stuck in the ghetto

Them say me grow up to be nothin'

Look at me now and tell me what you see

I am what I am, it's only me

("Lil' ghetto boy...")

Them say me grow up to be nothin'

Look at me now and tell me what you see

I am what I am, it's only me

("Lil' ghetto boy...")

[Outro: Snoop Dogg, (sample)]

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G (Of a G... of a G...)

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G (Of a G... of a G...)

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G ("The ghetto...")

That's the life of a G, I guess ("The ghetto...")