The Ghetto, Pt. 1 (Edited)

歌词
Talking bout the ghetto funky funky ghetto
Trying to survive, trying to stay alive
The ghetto
{Talking bout the ghetto}
The ghetto
The ghetto
The ghetto
{Funk funky ghetto}
Even though the streets are bumpy, lights burned out
**** 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 **** but then crime don't pay
Black man tried to break into my house again
Thought he got off early 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
The ghetto
The ghetto
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 *******
She was nine months pregnant, ain't nothing changed
600 million on a footbal team
And her baby dies just like a **** 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
The ghetto
The ghetto
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 TOOSHORT
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 ****
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?
The ghetto
The ghetto
So much game in a Too 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
The ghetto
The ghetto
End
专辑信息
1.Voice Inside (Everything Is Everything)
2.Je Vous Aime (I Love You)
3.I Believe To My Soul
4.Misty
5.Sugar Lee
6.Tryin' Times
7.Thank You Master (For My Soul)
8.The Ghetto, Pt. 1 (Edited)
9.To Be Young, Gifted And Black
10.Giving Up (2007 Remastered Version)
11.A Song For You (2007 Remastered Version)
12.Little Girl
13.He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother
14.Magnificent Sanctuary Band (Remastered Version)
15.She Is My Lady
16.I Believe In Music
17.Take A Love Song
18.Put Your Hand In The Hand
19.I Love The Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts I & II)
20.Someday We'll All Be Free
21.Flying Easy
22.Valdez In The Country
23.I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know
24.Come Little Children
25.Love, Love, Love
26.The Slums
27.Magdelena
28.I Know It's You
29.Jealous Guy [Studio Version]
30.No Other One But You [1974 Demo]
31.The Essence Of Destiny [1974 Demo]
32.Going Down [1974 Demo]
33.Make It On Your Own [1978 Demo]
34.This Christmas
35.Little Ghetto Boy
36.A Dream
37.Be There
38.Lord Help Me
39.You Were Meant For Me
40.What A Woman Really Means
41.What's Going On
42.The Ghetto
43.Hey Girl
44.You've Got A Friend
45.Little Ghetto Boy
46.We're Still Friends
47.Jealous Guy
48.Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything)
49.To Be Young, Gifted And Black (Live @ The Troubador, Los Angeles, CA)
50.A Song For You (Live @ The Troubador, Los Angeles, CA)
51.I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know (Live @ the Bitter End, NYC)
52.We Need You Right Now (Live @ The Troubador, Los Angeles, CA)
53.Sack Full Of Dreams (Live @ The Troubador, Los Angeles, CA)
54.He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (Previously Unissued)
55.Yesterday (Previously Unissued)
56.Superwoman (Previously Unissued)
57.Flying Easy (Previously Unissued)
58.Valdez In The Country (Previously Unissued)
59.Someday We'll All Be Free (Previously Unissued)
60.Nu-Po [Live at Newport 1973]
61.Love Love Love [Live at Newport 1973]