Life In The Ghetto - Baby Gas, E-40

That’s life in the ghetto

Everybody rob for a feat

Fiends keep their eye on the streets

Every day another homicide in the streets

That’s life in the ghetto

You learn to survive in the streets

Or get ate alive in the streets

If your poor, it’s mandatory overtime in the streets

That’s life in the ghetto

They say life out here is what a nigga make it

I guess everybody story little different ain’t it?

If you ask about my own‚ I never hesitated

Had a vision with a bag‚ real picture-painted

Grew up on the block with a cold dream

At the spot‚ gettin' drops by the dope fiends

Was the youngest little vato that your seen

Mama we’ll make it out, at night we’re back to the old scheme

Quickly I’ll take it back to the old me, I’ll never settle

You survive in my streets‚ make it in any ghetto

Die in this war, no twenty-one guns, no gold medal

Choppa for the fake love‚ shells drop like rose petals

No one can ever rewind this life back

Though we paid dues and unfortunately couldn’t price that

It ain’t got a price tag, every day I spend on it

Never knew the cost, just knew I had my hands on it

That’s life in the ghetto

Everybody rob for a feat

Fiends keep their eye on the streets

Every day another homicide in the streets

That’s life in the ghetto

You learn to survive in the streets

Or get ate alive in the streets

If your poor, it’s mandatory overtime in the streets

That’s life in the ghetto

Bullet shells and white chalk

Shhh, if you see it don’t talk

Turn a blind eye and a deaf ear

Certain things are forbidden, listen here

Poverty and chaos

Dudes that come with their best shooters like the playoffs

Get their mans, fuck how much it costs

If they want him outta here, they can get him offed

Beastie

Obesestity

Asthma inhaler

Heart failure

They say that meat builds up mucous in our intestines

Might start eatin' plant-based, get rid of intergestion

The Bible speaks of jealousy

A lot of times the jealousy be comin' from your family

Bruh, you ain’t even got to have a paper penny

They could have hella bread and still have envy

Hood rich one day (Hood rich one day)

The next day you broke (The next day you broke)

You could have a fist fight with your friend (Fist fight with your friend)

And the next day, y’all folks (Uhhh)

That’s life in the ghetto

Everybody rob for a feat

Fiends keep their eye on the streets

Every day another homicide in the street

That’s life in the ghetto

You learn to survive in the streets

Or get ate alive in the streets

If your poor, it’s mandatory overtime in the streets

That’s life in the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto