In the Ghetto - Trouble, Big Bank Black

She’s only fourteen years old, never had a father

Her mama on the blow, she only going under, so I guess she’s all alone

Wanting something to eat, cause ain’t nothing in her home

If that’s what you call it, two bedrooms, these people ain’t got no heat niether

Stressin tryna know why her pops don’t want to keep her

People keep tellin her fuck 'm, you’ll be aight

But how so, when the coat is the only thing keepin her warm at night

So one night, she decided to go swallo her pride

Cause her friends been recommending she go for a ride

Now hot box to a hot spot, get a lil cash

But they didn’t tell her to get the cash, she gotta get out fast

She goin step in the spot, house jumpin

Feelin kinda nervous, heart pumpin

No young dudes around, they grown men

Who all blowin weed, sippin on Jin

Time goes, they start to disappear

One here, one here, till it’s down to her and the nigga with the Benz

He took her upstairs, gave it to her bad, she won’t refuse it

She realised the man was too strong, she’s only losing

Plus she’s being held down by another brother

Blood on the sheets and covers, oh brother

Wake up in the morning, take herself to get tested

Found out she was ades infected

See, you wouldn’t understand if you wasn’t in these streets

Bout life in the ghetto

Life in the ghetto

I know you don’t know what it feels like to not eat or sleep

When you live in the ghetto

When you come from the ghetto

Young and thuggin, 17, he got a Glock

Tryna get the cream, he survin feends

Scream when confronted by the big dogs, but he gotta get his own

Take shifts and take trips when it’s time to move

Cool, no school for him

Fuck a principal, no rules for him

He not really gettin it, there’s still rules in the streets

Listen to the OGs, or be done and get found

His money been gettin lardger, he been grindin harder

Got some beef with some niggas catchin the marder

Thought they was only talkin shit, then they said who wanna hit

See, you wouldn’t understand if you wasn’t in these streets

Bout life in the ghetto

Life in the ghetto

I know you don’t know what it feels like to not eat or sleep

When you live in the ghetto

When you come from the ghetto