The Ghetto (feat. Nas & will.i.am) - The Game/will.i.am.mp3

[00:00.56]Stay with me, please, don't leave me, baby
[00:02.54]I love you, stay with me, please, baby
[00:06.65]Someone's coming, please, please
[00:22.37]It seems like everywhere I go, everybody‘s in a struggle
[00:27.25]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[00:29.99]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[00:32.95]The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
[00:40.74]The, the, the, the
[00:43.42]It be jam-packed in front of the stoops in Siberia
[00:46.39]Same way they are in the middle of Nigeria
[00:49.09]Every part of the whole world, there's an area
[00:51.47]That, if you're poor, another day alive is a miracle
[00:54.51]The blocks in Watts got crooked cops that frame the innocent
[00:57.59]No different from Flint, Michigan
[00:59.97]Living in the D, checking in with the pimps and them
[01:02.21]It's similar to O-Town, in the Southern Peninsula
[01:05.33]Pretty city, skyscrapers will fool you, look through to
[01:08.27]Inner cities the rich won't move to
[01:10.24]The nice parts, they well-protected by a vanguard
[01:13.20]The opposite of how these concentration camps are
[01:15.86]Low-income housing, it dwells murderers
[01:18.54]But children don't qualify for health services
[01:20.84]The bourgeois act like they don't see starvations
[01:23.22]Like they spraying Este Lauder on sanitation
[01:26.24]It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
[01:31.21]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[01:33.90]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[01:36.84]The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
[01:44.58]The, the, the, the
[01:47.62]Streetlights come on, cop cars' lights flicker
[01:50.25]They smoke us like cigarettes, need a light, bitch?
[01:52.66]Used to chastise or string us up to spite ******
[01:55.45]War to fight for the culture, instead we eaten by vultures
[01:58.26]They mix us like mimosas, hang us on wanted posters
[02:00.58]Asked for license and registration with they gun out the holster
[02:03.44]Some of us guilty, some of us not, some of us filthy rich
[02:06.60]Others just watch us niggas drive up the block
[02:08.62]We think we keeping it one hundred coming back to the hood
[02:11.22]They think we flossin' money, so they pull a ratchet: what's good?
[02:14.02]It happens in Compton, happens in Queens, happened to Big L
[02:16.92]Happened to Chinx and 2Pac in that passenger's seat
[02:19.40]Sometimes it's internal, happens to you before you happen to bleed
[02:22.10]What's beef? Cops killing niggas dead in the streets
[02:24.80]So before we look outside, we gotta look within
[02:27.34]Cause, now, we the dinosaurs, I think the world 'bout to end
[02:30.32]It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
[02:35.28]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[02:37.91]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[02:40.84]The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
[02:48.66]The, the, the, the
[02:51.33]I'm from the project buildings, high stories
[02:53.30]My stories from valence to glory
[02:54.93]Dog-eat-dog world, gory
[02:57.06]In the gutter, brother despise brother
[02:59.40]Throwing threats at each other
[03:00.57]Broken bottles and bar fights with box cutters
[03:03.17]Alcoholics, narcotics, organized
[03:05.39]Families sleep from a gas stove, burned alive
[03:07.93]They bagging up drugs with plastic gloves
[03:10.01]On his way to the top with his cash, he shrugs
[03:12.91]Kidnappers, degenerate thieves and gamblers
[03:15.41]Stealing, panhandlers, wrapping grams up
[03:17.57]Rubber bands on they Grams, what?
[03:19.36]Playing cards and they bored
[03:20.91]Members of gangs, living by and dying by the sword
[03:23.71]Block parties, fools stamp debit cards
[03:26.16]Your hood ain't no different from ours
[03:28.38]We share the same dreams, same money
[03:29.99]Same clothes and cars, instead we get the same jail bars
[03:33.51]The world's a ghetto, the world's a ghetto
[03:38.85]The world's a ghetto (Ghetto)
[03:41.69]The world's a ghetto
[03:49.59]Me and God's son, jumping out of project buildings in black parachutes
[03:53.09]Both classic, both ride through the hood in a pair of coupes
[03:55.89]Flow sick, mix the Henny with the Theraflu
[03:58.46]He told me I was ill at that Houston's, bitch, where was you?
[04:01.07]Hip-hop critics, sit the **** down, get a chair or two
[04:03.87]I ain't tryna kick knowledge, just a pair of graphic parables
[04:06.35]Grew up, spent the whole middle school in the same pair of shoes
[04:08.99]Me and my brother sharing shoes, my childhood was terrible
[04:11.69]That's why I spend nights on the rooftop, smoking medical
[04:14.33]You got a minute, my bitch? Let me break down the variables
[04:17.01]Adapted to my surroundings, flow better than I used to
[04:19.57]Momma, this for us buyers, for the days I wore FUBU
[04:22.23]Having beaucoup dreams, deuce-deuce in jeans, my bitch
[04:24.84]Now, I'ma end your career in two sixteens, my nigga
[04:27.55]If he the God's son, then I must be the prophet
[04:30.15]The Ghetto by The Game, Nas, will.i.am from the album The Documentary 2.5, And all this "King of L.A." shit, you niggers need to stop i
[04:35.60](The ghetto)
[04:43.54]It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
[04:48.63]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[04:51.35]Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
[04:54.20]The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
[05:02.11]The, the, the, the
[05:04.44]Uh, it's a ghetto
[05:06.70]Uh, it's a ghetto
[05:09.67]It's a ghetto
[05:11.11](You gonna take that top note or what, man?
[05:12.30]We gonna do this harmony or we gonna do it right
[05:13.73]This mother****er Chuck gonna come here swinging
[05:16.53]He's gonna come here drunk off that shit
[05:18.28]Come on, now, let's get it right, tighten up, bitch
[05:20.08]Hey, one, two, three, four)
[05:23.33]It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
[05:28.26]It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
[05:32.44]One more time
[05:33.35]It's a ghetto, yeah
[05:35.56]It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
[05:40.13]Hey, it's a ghetto
[05:42.29](Alright, alright, alright, that sound good
[05:43.48]But we need to work on this other one, now
[05:44.75]Let's get it tight
[05:45.88]Come on, Erica, JC, Pharaoh
[05:47.56]Let's make this shit happen man, come on)
[05:49.18]One, two, three, four
[05:51.10]Oh, oh, oh, took your love away
[06:00.38]I wanna know