Ghetto Burbs (feat. Emanny)

Always had big dreams
 Everybody had big dreams though
 I ain't never wanna stay here, I had no intentions
 I never had no plans
 Live my life
 Gotta know how to survive
 Just can't hide
 These streets eat you alive
 Ghetto burbs
 Cause I'm from two different worlds
 Ghetto burbs
 Comin' from the ghetto burbs
 Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
 From where the pedal was served, use hand gestures for words
 Big-up to LA, they was ahead of the curve
 My hood we gangbang, you could get left on the curb
 Yep, I was raised here, but I'm tryin' to export
 Police is crooked, the strippers is escorts
 Like my homie Layla, really I can't knock her
 She gettin' paper, month ago she was knocked up
 Baby-daddy a dope-boy,? was locked up
 But he on the same shift, fucked around and got shot up
 In my same mind, I'm like why he even bother?
 At the same time don't know what he was a part of
 Layla over the casket, tears comin' harder
 The hood wins again, another son with no father
 Gotta take it in stride, 'round here it's the usual
 But I ain't accustomed, that shit I can't get used to
 I'm tryin' to survive
 Live my life
 Gotta know how to survive
 Just can't hide
 These streets eat you alive
 Ghetto burbs
 Cause I'm from two different worlds
 Ghetto burbs
 Comin' from the ghetto burbs
 Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
 From where the ghetto's disturbed, you could be dead in a herse
 Say a prayer daily and end it with better or worse
 I lost faith, but grandma still keep her head up in church
 Murder is sky-high, employment is real low
 Little kid try to rap, but will he get a deal? No
 Poverty kills slow, believe is beyond you
 7 out of ever 10 bitches here got the monster
 Like my little homie Tanya, I met her at Freaknik's
 Freak shit, the same bitch them niggas be all out in the streets with
 Open, in love with the service
 But she got resentments you won't see from the surface
 Feel like so many women look right so she worship
 Caught AIDSs from rape, thought her whole life was worthless
 Ho couldn't know how gorgeous her curves is
 Fuckin' 'em raw and hope to catch it on purpose
 Better survive
 Live my life
 Gotta know how to survive
 Just can't hide
 These streets eat you alive
 Ghetto burbs
 Cause I'm from two different worlds
 Ghetto burbs
 Comin' from the ghetto burbs
 Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
 I ain't tryin' to act like my part of the ghetto's the worst
 Niggas is tricks here, they'll buy stilettos for birds
 How did I get here? Act like the metal don't hurt
 You just gettin' high, guess they tryin' to escape it
 Or commit suicide assumin' they couldn't take it
 The streets is cold, still we run around naked
 Success is a void and we replace it with hatred
 That's your homie from way back, from so many years old
 But friends turn green, even?
 You think he cared? No, y'all used to share clothes
 Now you struggle for rent and he got ice in his earlobes
 Your man won't even extend a hand even though his career gold
 You need a whole 'nother plan, your career's froze
 Valuables are more valuable than everything even valued to dude
 But you gotta survive
 Live my life
 Gotta know how to survive
 Just can't hide
 These streets eat you alive
 Ghetto burbs
 Cause I'm from two different worlds
 Ghetto burbs
 Comin' from the ghetto burbs
 Comin' from this ghetto burb
 Comin' from the ghetto babe
 Gotta know how to survive, streets eat you alive
 Comin' from the ghetto burbs
 Said the streets eat you alive, alive, yeah