| The ghetto is a struggle but we’ve gots to change our lives
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| We’ve got to change our lives, Oh-oh
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| The ghetto is a struggle but we’ve gots to change our lives
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| We’ve got to change our lives, Oh-oh
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| I’ve done seen it all in the bricks
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| Somebody said he would never change
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| The homies killin' up each other
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| Shit, I guess that is the dope game
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| And if you look like a thug, then that mean trouble
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| See my next door neighbor knockin' on the window
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| She wanna ???
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| And my water don’t get hot, I got bleach in my holey socks
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| And my mom started stressin' us why I started sellin' rocks
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| And this street got my crazy
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| Momma said I can’t lose my baby (Damn)
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| But see these niggas so shady (Ha Bro?)
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| Fuck the world if they take me
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| The ghetto is a struggle to me
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| Who can I be?
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| Will it bring trouble to me?
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| Before I rest in peace I ask my auntie to look up in the sky and thank
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| Before she turn another trigger, take another drink
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| I know it’s hard
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| Tryin' to survive and not die and stay alive
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| But who you really foolin'?
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| Cause we all live a lie
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| It ain’t the same wishin' ya didn’t have any
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| Didn’t want it and take it
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| But if the situation right then It’s your pockets I’m breakin'
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| I lost my conscious when I lost my big brother
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| Ask my mother, I’m never changin' my ways
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| Not even for The Source cover
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| I puts it down like that on this track
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| To give back to the hood
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| It’s a struggle (It's a struggle)
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| It’s all good (It's all good)
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| The ghetto is a struggle, so I gots to make a change
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| You know it’s hard on the streets, but I’ve gots to maintain
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| Mom pullin' up on my sleeve tellin' me don’t leave
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| I’m like, «I gots to do what I gots to do
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| Because if I don’t, I don’t eat»
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| Grew up with the rats and the roaches
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| Tryin' to stay focused (Stay focused)
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| Tryin' to survive in this world but it’s like I stay hopeless
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| The world is a ghetto and I can’t escape that (Can't escape that)
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| Every time I try to prove 'em wrong y’all just prove 'em right
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| Shit and, I hate that
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| I know I’ve made some mistakes black
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| Deep in the ghetto tryin' to find the queen
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| Tryin' to avoid the hoodrat
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| We’ve go to make a change
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| And in fact, we should
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| Just because we in the ghetto
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| We should still dream see past the hood |