The Ghetto (feat. Nas & will.i.am)

Stay with me, please, don't leave me, baby
 I love you, stay with me, please, baby
 Someone's coming, please, please
 It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
 The, the, the, the
 It be jam-packed in front of the stoops in Siberia
 Same way they are in the middle of Nigeria
 Every part of the whole world, there's an area
 That, if you're poor, another day alive is a miracle
 The blocks in Watts got crooked cops that frame the innocent
 No different from Flint, Michigan
 Living in the D, checking in with the pimps and them
 It's similar to O-Town, in the Southern Peninsula
 Pretty city, skyscrapers will fool you, look through to
 Inner cities the rich won't move to
 The nice parts, they well-protected by a vanguard
 The opposite of how these concentration camps are
 Low-income housing, it dwells murderers
 But children don't qualify for health services
 The bourgeois act like they don't see starvations
 Like they spraying Estée Lauder on sanitation
 It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
 The, the, the, the
 Streetlights come on, cop cars' lights flicker
 They smoke us like cigarettes, need a light, nigga?
 Used to chastise or string us up to spite niggas
 War to fight for the culture, instead we eaten by vultures
 They mix us like mimosas, hang us on wanted posters
 Asked for license and registration with they gun out the holster
 Some of us guilty, some of us not, some of us filthy rich
 Others just watch us niggas drive up the block
 We think we keeping it one hundred coming back to the hood
 They think we flossin' money, so they pull a ratchet: what's good?
 It happens in Compton, happens in Queens, happened to Big L
 Happened to Chinx and 2Pac in that passenger's seat
 Sometimes it's internal, happens to you before you happen to bleed
 What's beef? Cops killing niggas dead in the streets
 So before we look outside, we gotta look within
 Cause, now, we the dinosaurs, I think the world 'bout to end
 It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
 The, the, the, the
 I'm from the project buildings, high stories
 My stories from valence to glory
 Dog-eat-dog world, gory
 In the gutter, brother despise brother
 Throwing threats at each other
 Broken bottles and bar fights with box cutters
 Alcoholics, narcotics, organized
 Families sleep from a gas stove, burned alive
 They bagging up drugs with plastic gloves
 On his way to the top with his cash, he shrugs
 Kidnappers, degenerate thieves and gamblers
 Stealing, panhandlers, wrapping grams up
 Rubber bands on they Grams, what?
 Playing cards and they bored
 Members of gangs, living by and dying by the sword
 Block parties, fools stamp debit cards
 Your hood ain't no different from ours
 We share the same dreams, same money
 Same clothes and cars, instead we get the same jail bars
 The world's a ghetto, the world's a ghetto
 The world's a ghetto (Ghetto)
 The world's a ghetto
 Me and God's son, jumping out of project buildings in black parachutes
 Both classic, both ride through the hood in a pair of coupes
 Flow sick, mix the Henny with the Theraflu
 He told me I was ill at that Houston's, nigga, where was you?
 Hip-hop critics, sit the fuck down, get a chair or two
 I ain't tryna kick knowledge, just a pair of graphic parables
 Grew up, spent the whole middle school in the same pair of shoes
 Me and my brother sharing shoes, my childhood was terrible
 That's why I spend nights on the rooftop, smoking medical
 You got a minute, my nigga? Let me break down the variables
 Adapted to my surroundings, flow better than I used to
 Momma, this for us buyers, for the days I wore FUBU
 Having beaucoup dreams, deuce-deuce in jeans, my nigga
 Now, I'ma end your career in two sixteens, my niggas
 If he the God's son, then I must be the prophet
 And all this "King of L.A." shit, you niggas need to stop it
 (The ghetto)
 It seems like everywhere I go, everybody's in a struggle
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 Oh, the whole world is a ghetto
 The ghetto, the ghetto, the ghetto
 The, the, the, the
 Uh, it's a ghetto
 Uh, it's a ghetto
 It's a ghetto
 (You gonna take that top note or what, man?
 We gonna do this harmony or we gonna do it right
 This motherfucker Chuck gonna come here swinging
 He's gonna come here drunk off that shit
 Come on, now, let's get it right, tighten up, nigga
 Hey, one, two, three, four)
 It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
 It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
 One more time
 It's a ghetto, yeah
 It's a ghetto, it's a ghetto
 Hey, it's a ghetto
 (Alright, alright, alright, that sound good
 But we need to work on this other one, now
 Let's get it tight
 Come on, Lyrica, JC, Pharaoh
 Let's make this shit happen man, come on)
 One, two, three, four
 Oh, oh, oh, took your love away
 I wanna know