Born In The Ghetto歌词

[00:00.000] 作词 : Cartagena, Floyd, Lyons ...
[00:02.56]Yeah it's time baby
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[00:06.35]It's time to speak the truth maturity
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[00:10.16]Huh ****** gotta evolve to let ****** know the real
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[00:13.70]Ya call yourself real
[00:14.82]Ya gotta start speakin about the real
[00:16.64]This is Joe Crack The Don
[00:18.35]And this is what I'm bringin to you
[00:20.20]Uh yo nowadays I'm flirtin with uncertain death
[00:24.37]Lord I gotta be dyin cause after all this cryin
[00:26.95]How much more hurtin's left
[00:28.31]When will the pain stop
[00:29.75]This depression and anxiety
[00:30.89]Is gonna make me show another side of me
[00:33.78]My ****** ride with me cause I'm the truth
[00:36.13]There's benefits to rollin with this clique
[00:38.09]Don't nobody **** with you
[00:39.47]Still they label me a tyrant and a backstabber
[00:42.19]But study the facts of crack
[00:43.81]The **** don't add up
[00:45.10]I'm bringin opportunity to my community
[00:47.55]Probably the only rapper that cares
[00:49.14]But still you out to ruin me
[00:50.91]Who you foolin B I'm for unity
[00:53.13]Latins and blacks
[00:53.92]Could you fathom the strength
[00:55.32]We have of the two it attach
[00:57.00]Born together voted alike
[00:58.81]These uncle charm politicians ain't holdin us right
[01:01.67]How could the same ***** be 20 years in office
[01:04.29]When it's clear the only thing
[01:05.57]That's risin is unemployment
[01:07.21]Abortion little kids havin kids
[01:09.61]The school system is failing us
[01:11.07]Now ain't that some ****
[01:12.48]While the rich keep gettin richer
[01:14.06]The poor keep dyin young
[01:15.38]I can't hide no more the time has come
[01:18.23]I was born in the ghetto
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[01:24.52]Tremblin tryin' a stay alive
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[01:29.75]Cause when you're born in the ghetto
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[01:35.34]No one seems to hear your cry
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[01:40.34]Brown skin
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[01:42.18]You know I love my bra-ha-own skin
[01:44.79]Everyday I'm confronted with racism
[01:47.33]These ************ coppers
[01:48.81]Wanna bag us and have us shackled up in state prisons
[01:51.65]After all the taxes I pay
[01:53.65]You would think when they stop us
[01:55.51]They would have something nicer to say
[01:57.16]Than "get the **** out the car where the drugs at
[01:59.83]All the jewelry you wearin where the ****** guns at
[02:02.79]Once they search the car clean and find nothin
[02:05.17]The same crooked cops try to act
[02:07.06]Like they know us or somethin
[02:08.38]Laughin tellin jokes by the thousands
[02:10.74]Two seconds ago they tried to
[02:12.27]Send us to the mountains
[02:13.80]Leave my son without a father
[02:15.44]My wife without a husband
[02:16.82]The more I think about it
[02:18.30]Man it's just disgusting
[02:19.53]Still we live amongst 'em
[02:20.81]Everybody wants out
[02:21.83]That's why we rap like we got
[02:23.37]Silver spoons in our mouths
[02:25.10]Like we ain't grow up on welfare
[02:27.21]***** don't even go there
[02:28.79]You probably wore Pro Players
[02:30.36]We need to educate the youth
[02:32.08]Tell our seeds the truth
[02:33.13]Too much to share
[02:34.15]The bare minimum will exceed the proof
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[02:36.45]I was born in the ghetto
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[02:41.90]Tremblin tryin' a stay alive
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[02:46.79]Cause when you're born in the ghetto
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[02:52.95]No one seems to hear your cry
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[03:00.28]Oh yeah so much pain
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[03:07.98]Tryin hard to stay alive stay alive
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[03:14.32]Out in these streets oooh harmonizing
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[03:23.52]Man sometimes in can get so tough
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[03:28.25]Oh yeah yes it can
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[03:33.77]Yes it can yeah
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[03:39.71]It can get so hard so hard so hard