Song The Ghetto | |
Artist(s): | Too Short |
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Game: | GTA: San Andreas |
Radio Station: | Radio Los Santos |
Year: | 1990 |
Genre: | West Coast Hip Hop |
The Ghetto is a song performed by Too Short featured on the radio station Radio Los Santos in GTA: San Andreas.
Lyrics[]
- Talking bout the ghetto...funky funky ghetto
- Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
- [Chorus:]
- The ghetto
- The ghetto
- (Talking bout the ghetto)
- The ghetto
- The ghetto
- (Funk funky ghetto)
- Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
- Dope fiends die with a pipe in their mouths
- Old school buddies not doing it right
- Every day it's the same
- And it's the same every night
- I wouldn't shoot you bro but I'd shoot that fool
- If he played me close and tried to test my cool
- Every day I wonder just how I'll die
- Only thing I know is how to survive
- There's only one rule in the real world
- And that's to take care of you, only you and yours
- Keep dealing with the hard times day after day
- Might deal me some dope but then crime don't pay
- Black man tried to break into my house again
- Thought he got off dope doing time in the pen
- Even though my brothers do me just like that
- I get a lot of love so I'm giving it back to the...
- [Chorus]
- So just peep the game and don't call it crap
- Cause to me, life is one hard rap
- Even though my sister smoked crack cocaine
- She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
- 600 million on a football team
- And her baby dies just like a dope fiend
- The story I tell is so incomplete
- Five kids in the house and no food to eat
- Don't look at me and don't ask me why
- Mama's next door getting high
- Even though she's got five mouths to feed
- She's rather spend her money on a H-I-T
- I always tell the truth about things like this
- I wonder if the mayor overlooked that list
- Instead of adding to the task force send some help
- Waiting on him I'd better help myself
- Housing Authority and the O.P.D
- All these guns just to handle me in the...
- [Chorus]
- Even though they put us down and call us animals
- We make real big banks and buy brand new clothes
- Drive fancy cars, make love to stars
- Never really saying just who we are
- We use alias names like TOO $HORT
- Sell you stuff you might kill for
- Young kids grow up and that's all they know
- Didn't teach him in school now he's slangin dope
- Only thing he knows is how to survive
- But will he kill another brother before he dies?
- In the ghetto, you keep one eye open
- All day long, just hoping and hoping
- You can pay your bills and not drink too much
- Then the problems of life you'll be throwing up
- Like me, but you don't see
- Ten years from now, where will you be?
- [Chorus]
- So much game in a Too $hort rap
- Blacks can't be white and whites can't be black
- Why you wanna act like someone else?
- All you gotta do is just be yourself
- We're all the same color underneath
- Short Dog's in the house you'd better listen to me
- Never be ashamed of what you are
- Proud to be black stand tall at heart
- Even though some people give you no respect
- Be intelligent, when you put em in check
- Cause when you're ignorant, you get treated that way
- And when they throw you in jail you got nothing to say
- So if you don't listen it's not my fault
- I'll be getting paid while you'll be paying the cost
- Sitting in the jailhouse running your mouth
- While me and my peoples try to get out
- [Chorus]