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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Freeway
Vocals
Rell
Vocals
The Spinners
Sampled Artist
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Leslie Pridgen
Lyrics
R. Harrell
Composer
Yvette Davis
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bink
Producer
Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton
Recording Engineer
Doug Wilson
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I was born in west but migrated to north
Remember cold nights grinding AK in a Taurus
Four-door for the stick up boys if they want war
Fiends coming all night, all I heard was four more
Rocks in the cap
When it was jumping me and Rell hit dances
You could pick me out the crowd rocking the cap
But things change
'Cause my man Rell fighting a body
On state row where it's so cold
Rocking his blues
I roll with the ROC
Still tryna rock at a show
Shit ain't like '98, **** pockets is low
Which way do I go?
Indictments blew over
Man whipped a few shoulders
Shovel nick boulders, getting it slow
Me, I'm in the studio switching the flow
Changing the styles
My son and daughter need pampers
'Cause they just shitting them up
And changing the size
My man just quipped the jags
See the change in his eyes
[Verse 2]
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
[Verse 3]
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my neighborhood
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my area
[Verse 4]
My man blingin' platinum wheels, platinum gat
Took a trip down south came back with platinum caps
I'm still tryna write platinum raps
But made a slight change from verse one
Started juggling packs
It's like I'm traveling backwards
Rewinding the time
Putting four on nine
Must be outta my mind
Uh nine, get it outta my palm
Just grab four and a half, get it outta my trunk
Free, we need you at the studio
Out to lunch, out on the block
These **** just pulled out on my man
And the only rock I worry bout is right on my face
We bout to go shake, rattle his block with no plans
Shots fired, cops came
But I'm a grown man
I stick around till my clip is empty
Cops threw me on the ground
When my clip got empty
Now bars is all I see, a thug is all I'll ever be
[Verse 5]
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
[Verse 6]
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my neighborhood
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my area
[Verse 7]
I got eleven in, I was facing a dub, got nine left
My clique show love, they write back
My cousin M's son, little Di he's so grown
Said he hold chrome, run blocks, and write raps
Wrote him right back
Told him I control the bones
Try to play the phone
We could rhyme and hold wax
Leave that drug shit alone
Don't forget you grown
It'll put you places where your mind can't get you back from
Little **** ain't write me back since
Still supply the jail
L. Pridgon, you got mail
It's probably all the letters you wrote him
What you mean?
All the fucked up shit you told him
This shit from my cousin Emily I'm quoting (Uh huh)
Right out her letter
Little Di, got popped in the head
Tryna steal a **** leather
That's what the cops said, but the streets could tell you better
[Verse 8]
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
And I eat, sleep, buy, sell drugs
'Cause I'm just another victim of the ghetto
When I rob, steal, lie to get money, bust slugs
'Cause I'm just another product of the ghetto
[Verse 9]
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my neighborhood
This is how it goes down in these ghetto streets
This is how it goes down in my area
Written by: Leslie Pridgen, Roosevelt Harrell, Y. Davis