[ti:Ghetto Rich(Remix)] [ar:Rich Boy ft. John Legend, Nas & Lil' Wayne] [al:] [00:01.84]Rich Boy ft. John Legend, Nas & Lil' Wayne - Ghetto Rich(Remix) [00:05.48](rich Boy) [00:12.48]Let me take ya through my hood where I was born and raised [00:14.98]Where niggas tote semi-automatics, busting them K's [00:17.50]Heavy guns and dope boys harassed by the police [00:20.40]Still getting pulled over and asked by the police [00:23.22]Bama wasn't made for a nigga to win [00:25.58]See the color of ya skin get ya put in the pen [00:28.19]It's real life, over dice, Dwayne dead and gone [00:30.78]Sending niggas to the pen or the funeral home [00:33.53]I be feeling like the Lord will never answer me back [00:36.22]So I'm holding on my gat just in case they attack [00:38.99]Bullet holes in ya house it'll make it hard to sleep [00:41.58]Ya see the fiends on the street want the hard for cheap [00:44.27]Lotta niggas doing life from undercovers and fake friends [00:47.16]It's real how them penitentiary bars'll break men [00:49.94]Niggas doing life from undercovers and fake friends [00:52.43]It's real how them penitentiary bars'll break men [00:54.58](chorus) John Legend [00:55.24]It's where ya live, it's where ya play [00:57.80]It's where ya learn, ya favorite slang [01:00.51]Your world is, ghetto [01:05.67]It's where I live; it's where I'm from [01:08.55]It's where ya had, to tote your gun [01:11.25]Your world is, ghetto [01:13.98](Lil Wayne) [01:16.49]I could never win an Oscar 'cause I don't know how to act [01:18.99]So on my first million dollars and I ain't know how to act [01:21.69]Then the second million came, then more came after that [01:24.35]Then more came after that, Hurricane after that [01:26.97]DAMN!!, and y'all saw the aftermath [01:29.78]And in my hood we don't front, so I do give back [01:32.51]When you see a hood nigga you gotta tilt your hat [01:35.04]And since I'm a hood nigga I do just that [01:37.77]OGs used to tell me you just rap [01:40.47]Lil nigga all you need to do is rap [01:43.05]And just when I thought I was gonna do just that [01:45.71]Poppa was a Rolling Stone and them stone was crack [01:48.40]Fuck being like Mike I wanna be like pop [01:51.00]Then I picked up a mic I wanna be like 'Pac [01:53.68]Please put down the pipe you don't need that rock [01:56.45]Please put up a fight for the kids that watch [01:59.07]Us in the spotlight and then they mock [02:01.76]But caskets get closed and then they drop [02:04.45]And cases get closed and they are dropped [02:07.10]'Cause no one knows and nobody got [02:09.47]Any out nor N-O, 'cause they better not [02:12.25]Three words to a witness they get shot [02:14.91]Let me tell you what this is, this is the block [02:17.49]Always talk to God, never listen to cops [02:20.22](chorus) John Legend [02:20.51]It's where ya live, it's where ya play [02:23.28]It's where ya learn, ya favorite slang [02:25.95]Your world is, ghetto [02:31.15]It's where I live; it's where I'm from [02:33.78]It's where ya had, to tote your gun [02:36.56]Your world is, ghetto [02:39.65](Nas) [02:42.15]It's cool to love to win but it's better to hate to lose [02:44.85]There's only one Nas by the hundred thousand you's [02:47.30]You lose money chasing women, never lose women chasing money [02:50.49]Niggas is broke plus the Wolves is hungry [02:52.72]Morgues full of dead niggas who was taking money [02:55.07]Morgues full of niggas who the last shit they ate in stomach [02:57.95]Spending stake, GORE-TEX boot, Prince still on his face [03:01.23]His still on his face when we revisit his wake [03:03.52]Whatever's undone I'd do it, fight against a whole army [03:06.84]One gun I'll use it, some son two shit [03:09.35]Creeping on ya like walking pneumonia [03:11.54]You're far from opponents; we could spar for the moments [03:14.49]I stay in deceitful conversations with creep with foul natures [03:18.11]Attempted murders trials, the basics [03:19.94]Threatening the witnesses and relatives of dead victims [03:23.63]It's the shit we live, uh, Queensbridge thug matrimony, clap a phony [03:28.00]Bullets even hit a crack-head in his Abercrombie [03:30.73]Psycho analyst was asking me what happened to me? [03:33.45]See the yacht got to me, then the gat got to me [03:36.00]Then the homies on the block with the stacks of money [03:38.74]Then these beautiful bitches was bending backs for me [03:41.32]Then lames put the rap game in a casket slowly [03:44.29]Man I don't give a fuck, this is rap to me