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J.PERIOD - In the Ghetto (Wake Up) (feat. Black Thought, Rakim & John Legend) (Dirty)
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[Verse 1]
Yo, if you're coming here to keep you a gat close
Ain't a lot of tolerance for people that lactose
You can get your back broke, stumped out, choked
Or slashed throat or poked in a cloud of black smoke
Old heads tell you 'bout the trouble with black folk
Coke heads tell you 'bout the difference in crack smoke
Chicken heads doing the back stroke, lot of sleep **** that act woke
People cashed in on their last hope, in the city of brotherly thuggery
Stitches in hospital recovery, they get at you suddenly
That love don't exist, when gloves on your fist
Brothers be literally shit with snuffs on they hip
With a package out of their strip and dubs on their whip
It's madness, you say is it bad? Yes
You see a whole lot of death threats and bad checks
You the place, your money or your life, or bad best sonny, you're in the
[Verse 2]
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto
[Verse 3]
Yeah, welcome to the concrete city, everybody carry metal when
It's impossible to settle in, you can hear the seven sins
Blowing through the ghetto wind, my eyes seen the evil
That'll make the devil grin, paying in misery's heroin
It gets depressing when the bad news never end
Pops shot and killed, robbing the bodega, I was eleven and
Moms was a shot of booze away from shooting heroine
Too true, my element, my future's irrelevant, it's evident
Then I'ma either end up dead or in the pen
Drug using and selling it, thug shooting and killing it
Embezzling, trying to bring dineros in
Crime free, I ain't losing, better bet again
I'm trying to find Heaven in this Hell I'm in
I'm more clever then I've ever been
I'm too thorough when the attitude is better win, when you living in a
[Verse 4]
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling, nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling, nobody smiling)
Ghetto (Nobody smiling, nobody smiling)
[Verse 5]
Talk about the ghetto, ay, ay, ay
The ghetto
The ghetto, talk about the ghetto
The ghetto (Nobody smiling, nobody smiling)
The ghetto, yeah
Talkin' 'bout the ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Yeah, the ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Talkin' 'bout the ghetto (Nobody smiling)
Written by: J.PERIOD

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