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- Composers:
- Grimes
- Timothy Wadell / Phillips
- Scott D.
 
- Tags:
- heard on pandora
- hip hoprap
 
- See also:
Poor Righteous Teachers - Ghetto We Love lyrics
Roots!
 Praise for the days when I couldn't get paid
 In the fix on the mix in the damn projects
 Cracks for the blacks but I couldn't sell that
 Even though blacks couldn't get jobs and shit
 Hit after hit from the Sugarhill Gang
 Hear a Pow Wow, hear a Big Bank Hank
 It was strange, I was broke but I still got the record
 Even though I was poor and about butt naked
 Rats in my front room, roaches in the back
 Junkies in the alley running styles for the crack
 It was I'll on the real, I be still bugging off it
 In the ways I will walk it so today I can talk it
 It's a shame how the games in the ghetto get played
 On the cracks they paid for the tricks they laid
 I'm afraid for the youth in this time we're living in
 Just about 13 on the scene scrambling
 Gambling small-time, apologize nice
 I'm about to roll 10 7's for the crap I rolled twice
 Rough business, it's a rich mon time
 When you ain't got the loot, you resort to the crime
 From the cess house, the youth house, the jail house, the Cult house
 Where I perfected these skills I be doggin
 Love to teach the facts but the brothers in the back
 Can't see what I'm saying cause the blunt smoke is foggin
 Still I proceed with degrees of the wisdom
 Cause this shit's thick, it kicks and I know it
 Lickle do you know there's a God and so
 Born just like Christ in a damn ghetto
 From ghetto to ghetto, from project to project
 Bookbag of lessons but I ain't have dough yet
 From knowledge to wisdom, from wisdom to see
 And understand me if you don't dance, G
 It's a god in the house, it's a god in the house
 And I'm godding it out, and I'm godding it out
 I've come a long way, the strong way, the wrong way, I lived it
 The right way, you might say, I got it, I'll give it
 But praise for the days when I used to be tramp
 And had to freeload of my Earth's food stamps
 Til I stopped, paused, start the pop's storesPoor Righteous Teachers - Ghetto We Love - http://motolyrics.com/poor-righteous-teachers/ghetto-we-love-lyrics.html
 It was I'll on the real, but who's to die for us?
 Say that I rock my own community
 Ain't a damn thing owned by the you or the me
 It's Koreans I be seeing on the neighborhood corners
 With the guns and the stores and love the ??? owners
 So beg my parton, peace Natasha Harton
 See I won't forget, I know for shit's starting
 From my way to LA, from JA to UK
 I am who I am, I say what I say
 I gots no time to love a slave trader
 Cause according to the constitution, they'll always hate us
 Play this, say this, and say it like I said it
 Cause a magazine edit can get your ass beheaded
 I'm thorough breaded, black slave dreaded
 The shit that y'all doing, I already did it!
 But lickle do you know there's a God and so
 Born just like Christ in a damn ghetto
 Praise for the days when I used to be trife
 With a lack of understanding anything about life
 So thanks to Malcom, Martin, Wylee Ferartin
 Father Allah talk the talk that I'm starting
 Peace to Elijah, we can't forget about ya
 Teaching us how ta, get up out the
 Project complex caves
 Another damn rave for the damn ex-slave
 My ghetto noise ringing from a project hallway
 Don't want to hear my mom say "Blacks have come a long way"
 How can she see that when we haven't eaten all day
 Haven't had a job since the ending of the slave trade
 Then they give us church, attempt to try and ease this
 But I check it out, had to learn about Jesus
 Told em he was black and they called me a hater
 Then he's on the church wall, yeah like a slave trader
 Something real funny's going on boy I'll tell ya
 Send you up sell ya, free ya try to kill ya
 Martin taught me much when he simply tried to love em
 Brother all about peace but the devils had to snuff him, but
 Lickle do you know there's a God and so
 Born just like Christ in a damn ghetto
 Lickle do you know there's a God and so
 Born just like Christ in a damn ghetto









