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Ab _ _ You know,
Gm my homies Tretch from Naughty by Nature once said, if you ain't from the ghetto,.
don't come to the
Ab ghetto.
But I'm gonna let one of our most
Gm imaginative tall guys take us all through the ghetto.
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Ab James.
Gm When I was a young boy, growing up
Ab in the ghetto,
G.
hanging
Gm out on corners,
Cm singing with.
the fellas,
Gm looking for the cute chicks.
Trying to
Ab find me big fun,
Gm.
looking for some trouble, anyone who'd give me some.
I was young and crazy, _
Ab in the ghetto.
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Gm.
Didn't know what my life would be,
Ab in the ghetto.
Gm I was dumb and oh so lazy,
Ab in the ghetto.
Something
Gm had a spell on me,
Ab in the ghetto.
You
Gm wanna know what I'm talking about.
Talking about ghetto
Cm _ _ .
life.
Gm Talking about ghetto
Ab _ life.
You wanna know what I'm
Gm singing about.
Talking about ghetto
Ab life.
Ghetto
Gm life.
Talking about ghetto
Ab life.
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Gm In the ghetto.
So we be taking them chances while we search for the answers.
We be smoking them cancer sticks.
Police
Eb provoke them.
We dancing and we be dodging them bullets.
They be popping off
Gm at us.
But yet we always romance the
Cm street and fall in love with the hood till
Gm somebody come.
They always up to
Eb no good.
So all of my fam could eat.
In the hood
Gm we hungry.
Hey, we playing for keys.
My soldiers on the block, get on
Ab it.
If we get it, we
Gm throw it, we will take it if we want it.
See, from the
Ab ghetto got a different state of mind.
With a different kind of
Gm hustle and we in it with the grind.
And develop our
Ab muscle till we sick of with the shine.
And if no bustle money come, sick of doing
Gm crime.
See the way we rep the hood, gotta
Ab love me.
You can take me out the ghetto but you can't take it
Gm from me.
Gotta love me.
Talking about ghetto
Ab _ _ _ .
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Gm _ _ _ _
Ab _ life.
You wanna know what I'm
Gm singing about.
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Cm My ghetto _ _ .
Ab _
Gm _ _ _ _
Ab _ is
Gm in the ghetto.
Ab That's where we getting in that street.
Hustle hard, try to get money quick.
Gm In the ghetto.
Ab That's where I got my name from.
I love to get
Gm money and I got all my game from.
In the ghetto.
That's where you eat with a
Ab bunch of the wolves and get to
Gm hustling as hard as you could.
In the ghetto.
Until your cake stacking,
Ab to get good, throw a block party
Gm for the whole hood.
In the ghetto.
Ab With them burnouts, sell these torquay, sell drugs in front
Gm of Poncho Deli.
Crackhead chicks
Ab still smoke with babies in they belly.
In the prison elevator, still
Gm the lobby all swelling.
In the ghetto.
That's where I keep my
Ab ratchets, get my instincts and survival
Gm tactics.
Ain't nothing like the hood.
I don't
Ab care.
You survive it in the ghetto, you can make it
Gm anywhere.
Gotta love me.
Talking about ghetto.
Ab _ _ _ .
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Gm _ _ _ _ _ _
Ab.
You wanna know what I'm
Gm singing about.
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Ab _ _ _ .
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Gm _ _ _ _ _
Ab _ _ .
Gm To my east coast, clap your
Cm ghetto.
West coast, clap your ghetto.
G Midwest, clap your ghetto.
South,
Gm.
clap your ghetto.
To my east coast,
G clap your ghetto.
Cm West coast, clap your ghetto.
G Midwest, clap your ghetto.
To my really south,
Gm clap your ghetto.
Even
Ab if they act rude, you'll always find a good
Gm chick to hold up for they dudes.
Behind them, me and my chick on the
Ab move.
We out in the cold
Gm of the street and live by the rules.
In the ghetto.
It's where all of
Ab the hoods at.
I'm one of those crooks and
Gm they sell the most shits at.
Where
Ab you find beautiful women and rug rats.
Some of
Gm the most powerful people, I love that.
Talking about
Cm ghetto.
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Ab You wanna know what
Gm I'm talking about.
Talking about
Ab ghetto.
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You wanna know what I'm
Gm singing about.
Talking about
Ab ghetto.
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Gm _ _ _ _ _
Ab _ _ .
In the ghetto.
Never mind who you thought I was.
I'm Rick James.
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