Verse1:
As I cruise BMore streets I wonder where the time went
When time spent was playing ball hoppin’ a forbidden fence
At the game’s end, me and Mike used to scheme
Get a lil green, hit video game machines
Couldn’t tell us we was virgins in the alley rubbin’ jeans with girls
Get ‘em frozen cups after the scene.
If you’d a said that Mike - Mike would never make it through his teens
We’d look in disbelief and then you’d probably get double teamed
Troublesome couple of brothers, mothers used any means just to make it
I met reality half naked and couldn’t face but I had to
Livin’ in a world that’s mad cruel, worrying about who pack tools
I’m dissin’ these whack crews miseducatin’ the young from the suburbs to slums
I’m teachin from the tip of the tongue, treasure my people and the culture
But we’ve been hit by the vultures so many times it’s a wonder how we keep from goin under
Cookin out in the summer before there was number runners we was dealin’ with hunger
Hook:
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still love my ghetto
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still
Verse 2:
I’m 26 and life aint easy as it used to be
The loss of Mike and other lives constantly bruisin’ me
I walk a road filled with rats, cracks, snakes, pistols and snares
No crystal stair, I found it rather unfair brothers like Tyree gotta struggle for theirs
These suburbans take life for granted aint got a care
Recalls of catchin’ flat tires not affording a spare
Made me cut off all my dreads when they meant more than just hair
My mama told “son the world aint yours but go get ya share”
Took that advice and made moves for when my seeds get here
Succeed this year, is what my conscience keep in my ear
More to life than weed, cigarettes, liquor and beer
Even though that’s all they feed in my community
God came, blessed me with an immunity from all that the devil can do to me
You and me brutally, see I’m soon to be a success story son of the slums but it don’t matter what I gain I wont forget where I’m from
Hook:
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still love my ghetto
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still
Verse 3:
Baltimore, Beat ‘em More, Harm City, Murderland
Take pride in what’s evil and eager to hurt a man
Watch shots rip through a innocent victim an easy target but the predator missed him
Without God’s spirit nothin’ there to convict him
I’m sick of sin smell of death so sickening.
I’m quick to click the pen and put the truth to the paper but who gon’ listen
Every night Satan send you on a new born mission it’s so real, I put the past behind me
I’m afraid Baltimore’ll catch the next Tsunami cause God’s not playing with you look at your life
Murderers thieves, back biters and liars alike
I know it’s hard to envision but listen
I don went from my worst place to a road headed back to my birthplace
Worst case, you could meet a early demise, unsure of where you lifting your eyes but still I rise where they
Hook:
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still love my ghetto
Chillin’ in front of dilapidated buildings
Graffiti on walls and snotty nosed children
Neighborhoods where they constantly kill men
But I still love my Ghetto, I still love my ghetto
