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

[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