[00:00.01]Ghetto Ghetto
[00:00.12]will.i.am
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[00:01.76]Ghetto, ghetto,
[00:07.13]I've been praying for you
[00:15.90]Hallelujah.
[00:22.60]It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
[00:25.24]I wanna be what's on TV,
[00:28.08]And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,
[00:30.86]Cause where I live we have nothing
[00:33.66]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
[00:38.75]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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[00:45.53]Little kids growing up without no education,
[00:48.37]Mom's on drugs, cause that's her only medication.
[00:51.27]Nobody's home, but they ain't on a vacation,
[00:53.99]But they left the kids alone watching the TV station.
[00:56.65]What's wrong with the picture, please, someone give me the answers
[00:59.60]They be wondering why the girls grow up to be dancers
[01:02.41]Then we wonder why the boys grow up to be dealers
[01:05.13]And they be angry at the whole world ready to kill us.
[01:07.93]After we start to resolve the whole problems
[01:10.73]How we let our little children destroying the goblin
[01:13.63]Why we got them all killing and stealing and robbing
[01:16.41]We need to plan a little seed to prevent the mobbing
[01:19.22]Why don't we teach them that science to reach for the stars?
[01:22.10]Cause they can beat the fire with the future worst than odds
[01:24.89]Don't want them looking in the past and covering scars
[01:27.67]They need a path out the ghetto, hello.
[01:30.45]It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
[01:33.09]I wanna be what's on TV,
[01:35.66]And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,
[01:38.59]Cause where I live we have nothing
[01:41.37]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
[01:47.03]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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[01:53.42]Little boy had a dream of being a ball player
[01:55.87]Cause little homie wanna grow to be a rhyme slayer,
[01:58.63]Little missy wanna grow to be a model
[02:01.81]While the momma at home just drinking out the bottle.
[02:04.07]How come little one to grow and be a councilman?
[02:07.01]Sitting in a governer, a mayor politicianman.
[02:09.77]Probably cause the politicians keep tricking 'em
[02:12.63]Promise that they fixing it but they ain't really fixing it.
[02:15.45]That's why they want to be like me
[02:17.90]Like giga like B and Nicky and Ree
[02:20.75]Every day in the ghetto is an emergency
[02:23.61]But the power that be don't emerge in see.
[02:26.40]That's why you see killing, that's why you see crimes,
[02:29.47]That's why you see homies in the prison doing time
[02:32.13]That's why you see crack, that's why you see blackstrap
[02:34.97]But no access out the ghetto, ghetto.
[02:38.13]It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
[02:40.92]I wanna be what's on TV,
[02:43.52]And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,
[02:46.43]Cause where I live we have nothing
[02:49.14]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
[02:54.69]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
[02:59.27]
[03:01.26]It is easy as 1, 2, 3,
[03:03.99]I wanna be what's on TV,
[03:06.55]And if that's wrong, please don't blame me,
[03:09.59]Cause where I live we have nothing
[03:12.36]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
[03:18.30]In the ghetto, ghetto, ghetto.
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[03:25.35]Ghetto, ghetto,
[03:30.58]I've been praying for you
[03:39.35]Hallelujah.
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