Welcome to the ghetto radio
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Where the people be living kinda low
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So you better not slow
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Or ya might catch the B-O
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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These are the people in my hood
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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And most of them are up to no good
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Let’s take a walk through my hood
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Where that phrase «it's all good»
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Don’t apply, although I wish it could
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In thickness the shit is real
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Come and get a feel of the raw deals
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See that nigga running with the steel?
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His name is KK and back in the day
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He was a star running-back
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Plus he ran track
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He could’ve been the next Walter Payton
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But wait an' watch him go and stick that lady up and start skatin'
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And see that sister with the weave down her back?
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That’s Priscilla, she be drinkin' Miller by the pack
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Her brother’s name is June but he caught a slug in his spine right here
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Now he rolls a wheelchair
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And there’s Mrs Robinson («aight, you?»)
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That’s my man mom, she make the slam beef stew
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And there go Joe Slim who wears a green brim
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And drives a green Cadillac with a spare on the back
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And that there’s Zak, who’s the crack maniac
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He’ll put a gun to your head just to get his habits fed
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And there’s Betty-May, who come out every day
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In Houser shoes and Golas
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Pushing her babies in the strollers
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There go Petey who be all in the books
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A’s in every class, never had a piece o' ass
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Then we got the twins who drive the same Benz
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And got the same 10s and 20s in their pockets and their skins
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Be sweatin' em, 'cause they know they got the double mint
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And not the kind you chew, but I think you kinda knew
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That’s Tina Parker, much darker than her sis
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That’s because her moms is a fuckin' snake, hiss
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Nobody in the family is dark except she
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And the UPS man with the long delivery
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And Jesse, he’s the neighbourhood Cinderella
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And when the fella be walkin' you can tell a
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Whole lotta sugar’s in his core
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Feed the soft, he be hittin' off
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He heads fresh home from up North
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Gee, that’s Mr Johnson, and that’s Ms Thompson
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Both of them are married, but not to each other
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Watch how they smother each other
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With kisses, hugs, feels, and squeezes
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Oh my sweet Jesus!
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These are the people from the Get Ready-o
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In other words the Ghetto
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Crema muletto
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It’s much worse than it looks and so is my hood
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When 'nuff folks is up to no good
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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These are the people in my hood
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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And most of them are up to no good
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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These are the people in my hood
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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And most of them are up to no good
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Just lookin' outta the window, I’m spyin'
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Wit' my eye an' the odds’re see niggas dyin'
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Like Jimmy Jones when they get two chocolate cones
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But all shorty got was a few broken bones
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'Cause he wanted to eat too quick
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And stepped out in the street too quick
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And got hit by this chick named Anna Cruz
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Who drinks so many brews
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She couldn’t walk straight or talk straight and made the news
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Like Tamitha Smith, who used to like The Smiths
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And getting mad loaded 'til her fuckin' heart exploded
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Damn, a cardiac arrest at 16
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But let me speak a bit about some more shit I seen
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They found a little girl in building number four
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Who had her panties to her ankles and her blood on the floor
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Maybe it’s because I’m nosey but I sho' see
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A whole lotta shit takin' place in my face
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That’s Mr Jackson who grabbed his axe an'
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Gave chase to a basehead who broke into his shed
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And when they caught 'im, he taught 'im
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A very valuable education
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Split his wig no hesitation
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Ten thousand bullets, five thousand guns
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Five thousand triggers, one thousand sons
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Eight hundred mothers, ten million tears
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Twelve hundred caskets, four million beers
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Poured on the ground for the individuals that didn’t make it
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I don’t think that I can take it
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'Cause nowadays folks be livin' like the dreads on Medusa
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It’s kinda hard to get used ta
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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These are the people in my hood
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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And most of them are up to no good
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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These are the people in my hood
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These are the people in my neighbourhood
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And most of them are up to no good |