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Rick James
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Why know, my homey Treach from Naughty by Nature once said
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"If you ain't from the ghetto, don't come to the fuckin' ghetto"
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But I'mma let one of our most immaculate tour guides take us all through the ghetto,
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My nigga' Rick James
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When I was a young boy, growin' up in the ghetto
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Hanging out on corners, singin' with the fellas
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Lookin' for the cute chicks, tryin' to find me
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Lookin' for some trouble, or anyone who'll give me some
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I was young and crazy (in the ghetto)
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Didn't know what my life would be (in the ghetto)
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I was dumb and oh so lazy (In the ghetto)
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Something had a spell on me (in the ghetto)
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You all know what I'm talkin' bout (talkin' bout ghetto life, talkin' bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (talkin' bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (talkin' 'bout ghetoo life)
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(In the ghetto) Sure we be takin' them chances
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While we search for the answers we be smokin' them cancer sticks
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Police provokin' motherfuckers, we dancin'
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And we be dodgin' them bullets they be poppin' off at us, shit
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But yet we always romance the street
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And fall in love with the hood 'til somebody come blast the heat
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Always up to no good, so all of my fam could eat
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See in the hood we hungry, hey nigga we playin' for keeps
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My soldiers on the block get on it
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It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it
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See nigggas from the ghetto got a different state of mind
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With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind
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And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine
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In the struggle, thus our money come quicker doin' crime
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I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me
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You can take me out the ghetto, but you can't take it from me
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Gotta love it
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[Chorus]
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (talkin' bout ghetto life)
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Ghetto life (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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(In the ghetto) that's where we get into that street shit
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Hustle hard, try to get money quick (in the ghetto)
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That's where I got my name from
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I learned to get money and I all got my name from (in the ghetto)
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That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves
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And get to hustlin' as hard as you could (in the ghetto)
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Until your cake stackin' shit'll get good
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Throw a block party for the whole hood (in the ghetto)
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With them burn out cellys
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Talk crazy, sell drugs in front of Pancho Deli
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Crackhead chicks still smuggle babies in they belly
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And they pis sin elevators 'til the lobby all smelly (in the ghetto)
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That's where I keep my ratchets
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Get my instincts and survival tactics
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Ain't nothin' like a hood nigga, I don't care
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You survivin' in the ghetto, you can make it anywhere
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Gotta love it
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[Chorus]
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To my east coast niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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West coast niggas', rep yo ghetto
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Midwest niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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Down south niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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To my east coast niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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West coast niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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Midwest niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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Down south niggas', rep yo' ghetto
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(In the ghetto) even though they act rude
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You'll always find a good hick to hold a brick for they dude
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Behind the bullshit, me and my clique on the move
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We honor the code of the street and live by the rules (in the ghetto)
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Is where, all of the hood's at
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Find the most crooks and they sell the most drugs at
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Where you find beautiful women and rugrats and some of the most powerful people, I love that
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C'mon
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm talkin' 'bout (talkin' bout ghetto life)
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(Talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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You all know what I'm singin' 'bout (talkin' 'bout ghetto life"
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Ghetto life (talkin' 'bout ghetto life)
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(In the ghetto)
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"Never mind who you thought I was, I'm Rick James, bitch!"
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