[00:00.01]Ghetto Ghetto [00:00.12]will.i.am [00:00.25] [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. [00:43.79] [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. [01:51.42] [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. [03:22.34] [03:25.35]Ghetto, ghetto, [03:30.58]I've been praying for you [03:39.35]Hallelujah. [03:43.62]