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[onyx - all talking]<br>Official nast'! word is bond<br>Yeah - yeah yeah - you know the real deal boy<br>Word up, official, official, official, official<br>Word up, check me, I'm the official, nastee<br>It's like that, yeah it's like this<br>Son hold up, what up what up<br>We gonna rhyme right now, word is bond<br>Give it all we got, c'mon yo, c'mon..<br><br>[fredro starr]<br>A lot of things have changed since I grown up<br>Half my brothers got locked, half got blown up!<br>From playin two hand touch and the games in the street<br>But the games ain't the same, now we playin with heat<br>See there's danger, in my buildin, they rollin dice there<br>Ain't nuttin nice there, who dare with ice-stare? !<br>My hallway is like rahway, to the thugs in the doorway<br>Peace, kid I'm out, no doubt!<br>We just hangin on the corner, puffin trees just<br>Tryin to stay warm, sippin ? easy? jesus!<br>Problems after problem, it keeps revolvin<br>They got us starvin, that's why we out robbin (knahmsayin? )<br>There's days I can't remember like the 6th of december<br>I think it was september nah, maybe it was november (what? !)<br>This kid got rocked, just for steppin on some sneakers<br>Heard from tamika, he's gettin buried in a speaker<br>Cause his mom's was on that *inhaling*, gettin laced<br>She not smokin it! she took one bad hit<br><br>Chorus: repeat 2x<br><br>Aiyyo (yo!) can't escape the ghetto<br>Hell no, it's everywhere you go!<br>Aiyyo (yo!) can't escape the ghetto<br>Hell no, it's everywhere you go!<br><br>[sonsee]<br>I'm not your role model, I'll drink the whole bottle<br>Don't follow, nobody cause you never know tomorrow<br>Just look around, everywhere, it's despair<br>It ain't no care here, and good times is rare<br>Or seldom last long, they always fadin<br>When my fam is dyin over money and gettin incarcerated (yeah)<br>Just to be a statistic, it's sadistic<br>Too realistic, we goin this quick!<br>The other night kids got bad (word, t-n-t ran out? )<br>Got them kids bill and ted, they called the law news spread<br>Last week they was blazin on the corner, bullets ricochet<br>Hit somebody's baby, and they kid may be dead<br>Resultin from the ill {shit}, to say the least<br>Livin in the ghetto... rest in peace!<br><br>[onyx]<br>Yo.. hey!<br>Cause where I'm from, the good die young<br>The sky is grey, we never see the sun<br>The ghetto life, is live and let live<br>On the day to day..<br><br>[sticky fingaz]<br>It all began when shorty rock took the law in his own hand<br>Sick of seein his moms gettin beat up by his old man<br>So he did what any kid woulda done<br>Went into the closet, got his pop's gun<br>Who need enemy when you got family? <br>It's hard to get a job when you look like me (word up!)<br>See people don't just rob cause they on unemployment<br>Some do it for the pure satisfaction enjoyment<br>Brrrr, it's cold, this world is freezin<br>Folks gettin murdered over no apparent reason (no!)<br>Packin they bags, talkin bout they leavin<br>But where you gonna go? you can't escape the ghetto!<br>You see more when you high, even less when you low<br>You can't run from your own shadow<br><br>Chorus<br><br>{*scratches my little man, shorty doo wop*}<br><br>[onyx] in every ghetto, we packin heavy metal (repeat 4x)<br><br>{*ad libs and official nast'! to fade*}