Chords for Busta Rhymes - In The Ghetto ft. Rick James

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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.
[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.
[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] .
[Gm] [Ab] life.
You wanna know what I'm [Gm] singing about?.
[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.
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[Gm] [Ab].
You wanna know what I'm [Gm] singing about?.
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[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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