Ghettos of the Mind-Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth

[00:00.00] 作词 : Penn/Peter Phillips [00:00.51] 作曲 : Penn/Peter Phillips [00:01.02]Ghetto of the Mind... [00:54.60]I catch a body at a party, sort of herbal with the verbal [00:57.29]Look above and see the vultures fly around in a circle [00:59.95]Baggin' while you're lollygaggin', raggin', tow-taggin' [01:02.42]Assassin with the millimeter roars of a dragon [01:04.95]Here stood the black hood, thirsty for the end [01:07.43]And for the love of money, kind of funny, new friends [01:10.14]Public housing, a thousand in a tent [01:12.46]So I'm forced to sell hell just to pay the rent [01:14.98]Killin' my own people, I put 'em out of order [01:17.67]Just like the liquor store scene on every corner [01:20.29]I'm tryin' but the kids keep cryin', and the bullets keep flyin' [01:23.36]Look, a boy, he's on the curb just dyin' [01:25.44]Finally the cops come dumb to the slum [01:28.00]Pull out a gun and arrest the wrong one [01:30.48]Wax all the Puerto Ricans and blacks [01:32.52]So they can never relax [01:33.78]I dwell, might as well learn the facts [01:35.75]Pete Rock and C.L. can radio a shack up [01:38.17]Sparkin' off and have 'em all callin' for backup [01:40.74]"Watch another crime and you're gonna do time" [01:43.12]All this you'll find in the ghettos of the mind [01:46.06]Ain't that somethin'? [02:06.18]Listen to cats and rough rats war under the window [02:08.76]When the ghetto forts flurry, never was a Tom and Jerry [02:11.39]Livin' ain't cheap, my survival is deep [02:13.92]In this part of town where the city never sleep [02:16.39]A Barney Miller roller, you can bet the car's stolen [02:18.92]Or static with your BM, only when you see them [02:21.50]Speakin' on your baby's mom, a best for the drama [02:24.02]Always tryin' to make a movie, little stark-ravin' looney [02:26.65]Stressin' it, but you know the ghetto keep ya busy [02:29.11]A place that when I die it would never even miss me [02:31.79]Crack phials in the aisles as one pimp smiles [02:34.58]Dope piles workin' hookers by the miles [02:36.78]But still my pop's got three jobs to stable [02:39.36]A family household and food on the table [02:41.87]So as we pray for all our souls to keep [02:44.41]Somebody's on the project roof, ready to leap [02:47.04]I want to stop the pain or the bad situation [02:49.57]But backwards wisdom I can't afford to give 'em [02:52.91]Self savior is much braver with the conscious behavior [02:56.19]Designed in the ghettos of the mind [02:58.16]Ain't that somethin'? Yeah, c'mon [03:18.22]It's like that y'all [03:28.60]I could never look forward to an early retirement [03:31.33]But still I maintain in a hostile environment [03:33.97]Hustlin' the concrete jungle for loot [03:36.19]My parents hated blood money so they gave me the boot [03:38.91]Take a risk cause the peer pressure has the edge [03:41.34]It was a blessin' when I saw my life dangle on the ledge [03:43.95]The streets coulda swallowed me whole [03:45.82]But the pain was all gone when I got to see my healthy son born [03:49.06]And now I bring him home to the ghetto [03:51.09]Only to make a stronger fellow [03:52.24]Maybe do some good for the neighborhood [03:54.42]It's hard playing hero livin' less than a zero [03:56.69]Raging Bull like DeNiro, the modern day pharoah [03:59.42]A concentration camp with the Section 8 [04:01.88]Welfare checks given at a monthly rate [04:04.36]Apply for the get high, or just plain lazy [04:07.03]Many steady collect right around the fifth baby [04:09.51]The hawk is out but the niggas never pack it [04:12.05]A hundred dollar sneakers with the skimpy-ass jacket [04:14.66]When people are deaf, dumb, and blind they get left behind [04:17.91]Imagine in the ghettos of the mind