Ghetto

Know that I put my heart in it, and I kept it real
For those of you who know me personally, you know that I might not always be
right
But I’m always poetic
You know that
They say that «count your blessings»
Where I come from, uce, you can count on stressin' (if you can count,
if you can count)
Who gon' win the election?
Don’t matter, 'cause the kids still starvin' my section (snowed out)
When I speak, I own the pressure
They say I hate white folks because of my aggression
If I’m mad, the mic, add up to an absent father
At a system that don’t give a damn about a brown man (brown, brown)
Should I elaborate? Should I invite your white mind to Poly saturate?
(brown, brown)
Could you appreciate that I’m just tryna teach all my people to educate (uh)
Teachin' the truth, that we all somebody
And we came from somethin', though we livin' at the bottom
The day makin' believe and they sells
'Cause if we can do that, then they might put the halos away
Push the bottles away, ain’t nobody gonna die over colours today
Polys, Black and eses, we all the same (straight up)
I’m tryna reach all y’all one at a time
But they don’t want the truth exposed, nope
They rather see us locked up one at a time (at a time)
If it was back in the day, they would’ve had us shot down one at a time
It’s time to change the world
Everybody stand together now, one at a time
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So beneath that my highs with ghetto
'Cause that’s how it is, just where I’m from, ho-ooh-ooh
I remember five mouths to feed
One can of elegi was the recipe
One blood, right next to me
It’s better for the deuce, try step to me
Had it sold out, fatalities
Livin' fast in the ghetto with the savagery, uh
Four strings on the gat, I see
Hella smoke in the buds, shack past the green
Vital Status, homie, that’s the team
SIx-eighty-five to the world, baby, that’s the dream
And we was hard-timin' like we the seas
But still we down for each other like family
Learnt some hard lessons, had me stressin' when I recollect on past events
Those still deemed heaven-sent, bruh
I wouldn’t change shit, dishonour after death, man
Y’all usos my heart, that’s why I’m blessin'
I miss y’all, shed tears when I’m on my own
Sometimes I wish I could come back home
But life is like a diaper, it gives you shit
And it just keeps changin', changin', changin'
Still, I keep patient, 'cause even in the ghetto maze life could be amazin'
But in my mind, sell blocks, my relations got life that they facin'
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So beneath that my highs with ghetto
'Cause that’s how it is, just where I’m from, ho-ooh-ooh
Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh (I used to wish on them stars)
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh (I used to wish on them stars)
Oh-uh-uh-uh-oh-oh
I used to wish on them stars in the ghetto
Used to wish when we starved in the ghetto
So beneath that my highs with ghetto
'Cause that’s how it is, just where I’m from, ho-ooh-ooh