[ti:Welcome To The Ghetto] [ar:Spice 1] [al:Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Welcome To the Ghetto (Explicit) - Spice 1 [00:09.88]Livin day by day in my hood on the spot [00:12.44]See the same old things:same d**e fiends cops [00:13.81]Just an average day in the streets of California [00:16.43]5 0 find a young girl dead around the corner [00:18.93]Mommies on her knees she had tears in her eyes [00:21.18]And nobody knew why the young girl had to die [00:23.55]People look ashamed it's been life this fo years [00:25.92]Bloody sheets on her body face wet from her mama's tears [00:28.91]She couldn'ta been over 4-5 [00:30.60]And if mommy wasn't based she would still be alive [00:33.10]But now the street is a place you could be swallowed by death [00:35.84]Brothas takin each other's lives [00:36.96]And goin to REST IN PEACE [00:38.40]I wonder if heaven got a ghetto [00:40.21]My cousin died last year [00:41.46]And I still can't let go [00:42.77]I walk the streets of my city of my neighborhood [00:45.08]Seein d**e fiends livin off can goods [00:48.01]15 niggaz on the corner [00:49.76]And niggaz die young in California [00:52.56]5-0 'll get a d**e case and flaunt it [00:55.62]Have your a** on"America's Most Wanted" [00:57.06]But I don't slang or either gang-bang [00:59.30]And though my old school homies do the same thang [01:02.11]I still got love cause you gotta live [01:04.42]So you can give [01:06.29]And raise a family G [01:08.29]But you gotta do your best slangin D-O-P-E [01:11.16]So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow [01:13.53]And welcome to the ghetto [01:17.69](welcome hard up with it to my life) [01:20.63]And welcome to the ghetto [01:22.37](welcome hard up with it to my life) [01:25.43]And welcome to the ghetto [01:27.05](welcome hard up with it to my life) [01:29.74]And welcome to the ghetto [01:31.55](welcome hard up with it to my life) [01:35.68]From across the seas comes coc*ine [01:37.61]But you never seen a black man fly the plane [01:40.29]Look at the news:a young black death [01:41.85]Was it ** related take a guess [01:44.41]I flash when I look in the mirror black [01:46.97]Cause my reflection is a 9 millimeter Gat [01:49.53]I think about genocide [01:51.27]And have thoughts of my homies who died [01:54.27]Everybody backstabbin [01:55.89]But I ain't the one to talk I'm into gafflin [01:59.45]Death gives a sh*t about your color [02:01.38]But yet I see mo dead young brothas [02:03.75]I'm goin crazy out here [02:05.50]Seein 24 brothas die by the end of the year [02:08.56]And I still gotta deal with the 5-0 [02:10.81]And I stopped sellin d**e in 9-0 [02:13.18]But if I came to it [02:14.49]I probably still do it [02:15.67]Put a Nine in my draws get straight to it [02:18.23]I hope that I never see the day [02:20.35]That I get 20 years for a cake [02:22.72]B-K-A as a key [02:24.10]So open up the door for the mo money [02:26.28]But I ain't gotta do that G [02:29.46]Cause I'm down with the F-A to the C to the U to the L-T-Y [02:33.58]G-nut X-tra Large and S-P-I-C-E make niggas feel like jello [02:39.01]And welcome to the ghetto [02:42.13](Welcome hard up with it to my life) [02:46.67]And welcome to the ghetto [02:47.92](welcome hard up with it to my life) [02:50.79]And welcome to the ghetto [02:52.23](welcome hard up with it to my life) [02:54.97]And welcome to the ghetto [02:56.91](welcome hard up with it to my life) [03:00.52]Welcome to the ghetto [03:04.70]Welcome to the ghetto [03:09.13]Welcome to the ghetto [03:23.73]Welcome to the ghetto [03:28.73]Welcome to the ghetto [03:42.64]Welcome to the ghetto [03:52.19]Welcome to the ghetto