[ti:Mother Ghetto] [ar:Papoose] [al:The Nacirema Dream] [offset:0] [00:00.92]Papoose - Mother Ghetto [00:01.98]Brooklyn, rise to the occasion [00:04.11]Papoose, PK [00:05.48]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [00:07.86]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [00:10.54]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [00:13.23]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [00:15.99]All the thorough bread borough heads, where yall from? [00:18.54]All the hundred dollar billers villains, where yall from? [00:21.54]All the low key OG's, where yall from? [00:24.04]Got a gat, cock it back, let me hear yall gun [00:26.99]Come and take a walk through my horde, I'll guide yo vision [00:29.74]When niggas who ain't ready to die get shot for livin [00:32.23]Stepped out the building another day, my time was tickin [00:35.73]But had to make a U turn, damn forgot the biskey [00:37.55]I stashed it on the side of the sink, behind the dishes [00:40.29]On Sundays I praise gun plays, that's my religion [00:42.67]Walking down the block with a boppin rhythm, [00:44.23]Had to take a leak behind the green garbage can, [00:47.48]Who needs a pot to piss in? [00:48.74]That's when I bumped heads with my man, he out of prison [00:50.99]Wuddup son? Noticed his grin looked kinds different [00:53.48]He had a long scar on his face, somebody jigged him [00:56.12]I got away when he got knocked, wish I was with him [00:59.42]They put the green light out, know how the game go [01:01.80]Niggas die for they colors, gotta respect the rainbow [01:04.74]Take John through the slums just to get a coliday come [01:08.24]Hoodlems through they guns in the sewers and swallow they jums [01:10.17]Snitches stopping the funs, when they hear the drama they run [01:13.36]So we throw the slugs to their tumors and silence they tongues [01:15.05]Raw ball heist, hand to hand is far more trife [01:17.93]Customers be bangin on the spot doors all night [01:19.49]I told the last customer your next time not like [01:23.43]He knock hard so I copped and took his heart not life [01:25.99]The mother ghetto went in first up, want the crook bone [01:28.55]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [01:31.74]Yall outsiders better come right, don't look wrong [01:34.37]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [01:37.17]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [01:39.43]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [01:42.05]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [01:44.92]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [01:47.49]Home of the time of hoax with money missin and drama talks [01:50.49]And you can tell a nigga from Brooklyn just how he walks [01:53.30]Them Brownsville dudes carry gas in they draws [01:55.61]Come through rockin a Rollie, better have it ensured [01:58.24]This New Yorkers will stab a millionaire til he bleed riches [02:00.99]Cop work from uptown niggas, fuck Queens bitches [02:03.93]4 green killas run up in yo living room quick [02:06.55]Them boys at canal, see you lay yo clique on the strip [02:09.24]Nobody politics in best up, who cares for that political shit? [02:12.37]We're robbin dog for his kibles and bits [02:14.55]Bushwick got beat cops, they actin like they own the streets [02:17.24]That's why we drop em like a verse and lay em on the beat [02:19.62]Celebrate easter by goin to Cony Island when heap [02:22.62]Just to have a slash out and bang it out on the beach [02:25.24]In Crown Heights they be workin them 2's, run hoop hoolups [02:28.43]Come around yo way or put yo turf on the news [02:30.86]Down town in Pican Ave got the flyest niggas [02:33.43]Youngins takin over the trains, cursin over the loud speakers [02:36.36]Flatbush they be totin, lean yo top smoking [02:39.05]Since the trains had tokes them boys kept it locan [02:41.74]From LG to Albany we was born to be thorough [02:44.31]Cypress Hill's the kings but now we the king borough [02:47.14]I'm from Bang Bridge, we broke the law for the fun [02:49.58]The cats at Marcy will make you cough up a lung [02:52.45]Wherever you from, represent the hood you live [02:55.07]Well keep it that way, don't come across the Brooklyn Bridge [02:57.82]The mother ghetto went in first up, want the crook bone [03:00.38]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [03:03.20]Yall outsiders better come right, don't look wrong [03:06.01]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [03:08.51]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [03:11.07]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [03:13.83]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [03:16.51]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [03:19.13]In the heaven of Bob, my hood, them pearly gates is locked [03:22.26]We the reason that cops traded 38's for Glocks [03:24.89]We the reason them cabs drive by, never trust you [03:27.64]We the reason you couldn't rock shines in the tunnel [03:30.33]Niggas be starin and walkin, lookin back [03:32.26]But I rob a nigga blind and ask him what the fuck he lookin at? [03:35.58]Patrol cars just wanna get essential book in pack [03:38.20]Don't get caught in alleys with Brooklyn cats [03:40.26]Face the fact that what you worship [03:41.83]So I pray with my backs towards the serpent [03:43.63]Hit the underground and changed all the rappers to the circus [03:46.32]Celebrated Ike after he was murdered [03:48.38]Due tradition we had him cremated [03:50.26]Put his ashes in the shone and I wish I could've did magic when they burned him [03:54.07]Cuz the depths of this devilish fire within these matches don't deserve him [03:57.20]It's when life stay on the abs of the earth and where the staff givin summers [04:00.45]Knowledge beneath the records of a target [04:02.63]Security stay harassin and lurkin [04:04.39]When a Brooklyn thug walk in the club, bounce his ass or skin they search us [04:08.26]Why pattin by my burners? You actin like you nervous [04:10.64]Make a mistake and get shot by accident on purpose [04:13.33]7 were made, when they sever yall faggots must've heard us [04:16.01]I area code have the same factors of a murder [04:18.70]Wherever you from, represent the hood you live [04:21.26]Well keep it that way, don't come across the Brooklyn Bridge [04:23.95]The mother ghetto went in first up, want the crook bone [04:26.46]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [04:29.51]Yall outsiders better come right, don't look wrong [04:32.14]My bud will light the tunnel crash, Brook no [04:34.89]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [04:37.33]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [04:40.07]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at? [04:42.71]Where Brooklyn at? Where Brooklyn at?