Welcome To The Ghetto Lyrics - Spice 1

Welcome to the ghetto 

Livin' day by day in my hood on the spot 

See the same old things:same dope fiends cops 

Just an average day in the streets of California 

5-0 find a young girl dead around the corner 

Mommies on her knees she had tears in her eyes 

And nobody knew why the young girl had to die 

People look ashamed it's been life this fo' years 

Bloody sheets on her body face wet from her mama's tears 

She couldn'ta been over 4-5 

And if mommy wasn't based she would still be alive 

But now the street is a place you could be swallowed by death 

Brothas takin' each other's lives 

And goin' to REST IN PEACE 

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto 

My cousin died last year 

And I still can't let go 

I walk the streets of my city of my neighborhood 

Seein' dope fiends livin' off can goods 

15 niggas on the corner 

And niggas die young in California 

5-0 'll get a dope case and flaunt it 

Have your ass on "America's Most Wanted" 

But I don't slang or either gang-bang 

And though my old school homies do the same thang 

I still got love 'cause you gotta live 

So you can give 

And raise a family G 

But you gotta do your best slangin D-O-P-E 

So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow 

And welcome to the ghetto 

(welcome hard up with it to my life) ?? 

[Chorus: x4] 

Welcome to the ghetto 

(welcome hard up with it to my life) 

From across the seas comes cocaine 

But you never seen a black man fly the plane 

Look at the news:a young black death 

Was it drug related,take a guess 

I flash when I look in the mirror black 

Cause my reflection is a 9 millimeter Gat 

I think about genocide 

And have thoughts of my homies who died 

Everybody back stabbin 

But I ain't the one to talk I'm into gafflin' 

Death gives a shit about your color 

But yet I see mo dead young brothas 

I'm goin' crazy out here 

Seein' 24 brothas die by the end of the year 

And I still gotta deal with the 5-0 

And I stopped sellin' dope in 9-0 

But if I came to it 

I probably still do it 

Put a Nine in my draws get straight to it 

I hope that I never see the day 

That I get 20 years for a cake 

B-K-A as a key 

So open up the door for the mo money 

But I ain't gotta do that G 

Cause I'm down with the F-A to the see to the you to the L-T-why 

G-nut X-tra Large and S-P-I-see-E make niggas feel like jello 

And welcome to the ghetto 

(Welcome hard up with it to my life) 

[Chorus: x4] 

[Repeat: x7] 

Welcome to the ghetto