yeeeeah in the ghetto i m living in a ghetto world in the ghetto it s a struggle but i gotta maintain welcome to the ghetto where forever be the same hard times got my people unable to maintain everytime i look around it s somebody doing bad that ll put you in the grave for som ing they never had everyday in the hood it be the same thang poverty running my people so they love pain and i don t know if it s wrong but still i know it ain t right i seen a lot of people die in the street life the other day it hit my heart when i watch the news a lil girl got killed while she was sleep in her room and she ain t deserve to die cause that s a kid dog them niggas took the life that she ain t get to live at all sometimes i wanna help the ghetto but it ain t gon do a thang cause i know that they ignant and that s a god damn shame it s an everyday task trying to live a good life inside of the ghetto where everybody be shife welcome to the south niggas ain t sleep at all ery body out on the block stay ducking them laws a couple niggas on parole hustling by the sto i m telling that ain t the way to go play your role but you don t hear me though this what i m living fo hustle till i get mine grind cause i need mo shots release too late for you to scream peace this how it is in the street leaving is obsolete and still i maintain seeing the same thang sometime i scream my brain just looking for a change but day in and day out i move in and move out keep my bidness discrete i m on a paper route i wasn t broke for nothing still i was learning some ing if you ain t been through nothing then you ain t seen nothing this how it really is around my way where anybody can get it anytime of the day i analyze the block babies are running round with glocks dope in they socks can t skip hot so fuck the cops moving from crumbs to bricks nigga these slums are thick i try to tell my lil niggas but they think they slick these white folks don t play they gon hot your way they try to give you twenty years just for living the wrong way and who s to say now a day right from wrong they ain t living how we live so they can t get in my zone we get chased home for stones and laws wanna break our bones in places in and out a high cell to roam and that s prolly the reason we going crazy pissed at poverty cause the system trying to fade me lately i ve been trying to stay out of trouble but it s hard to stop from copping the sack and flipping the double don t catch the wrong route when you on that metro there s a sign in front of the hood that says welcome to the ghetto  i wonder if heaven got a ghetto but b burning down the b block i put the petal to the medal running with my cousins in texas lil cross and big money my nigga trae and lil joe nigga all action in the ghetto i ve been riding through the hood for years and ain t a damn thang changed mama still shedding tears niggas fresh out the penn some niggas just going in some niggas gon run and stutter turning they self in never seen a black man flying dope on a plane but they lock us up for it shackle us with chains welcome to the ghetto ghetto starts and mob cars with bullet holes in it niggas shot up and scarred but still living driven by the game itself to stay alive in these cold streets mashing for wealth up in this ghetto o g s p s and c s thugs pimps playas hit the 6 4 s or 3 s yeeeah ghetto ghetto life of mii ine li li li life life 