Lil' Ghetto Boy

Ohh yeaahhh

Whoaaa-ho-ohhhhhhh

I wonder what my life would be if I...

Had that paaaper (Ohhhhhh)

I'm just a ghetto boy

A little ghetto boy (Ohhhhh)

They tell me it's like

The money, power; money and power

How can this world rotate without this money and power?

If I had money, I'd keep my peoples outta poverty

Cause ain't no more starvin' when y'all around me, (Shiiit)

This what it gotta be B, and every playa got paper

Shinin' like a superstar, with matchin' minks and gators

Keepin' our family off this poor table

Cause ain't no food on it

And every crab up in this bucket gotta move on it

I'm just a ghetto boy

Livin' in this ghetto world

Stayin' with' this ghetto chick

Hopin' to have a ghetto girl

And after all, ain't no spaces for that

How can we live up in this world, when ain't no place for the blacks?

Cause every dollar got a dream behind it, we seem to be blinded

Malcom X, he had to dream to remind us

Believe me, havin' money can have this world fucked up

But it can't answer yo' prayers, when you get down on yo' luck

I wonder what my life would be if I...

Had that paaaper

I'm just a ghetto boy (Ohhh yes I am)

A little ghetto boy (Ohhh)

Now if I live on top of the world

Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls (Diamonds and pearls)

Still a ghetto boy (Yeaah)

A little ghetto boy (Mmm)

I done lived my life up in the, ghetto

Mama workin' hours

Tryina feed a, family

Daddy's in and out

Takin' baths with' broken showers

Next-door neighbor gave us the vapors

Callin' cops, cause we known to plot

Break in they home, on some bogus capers

But I never thought that it would affect me later

Until I seen the hustle, when niggas ridin' stretch Navigators

But, more now then later, I should come up

Cause I seen my homie on the block, slangin' rocks

And then his spot get gunned up

I never visioned it'd be homicide

Because they told me he'll live

That's what they said when my homie Boosie died

Could all these millions bring my nigga back?

Could all these millions feed children?

Could all these millions make my spirit fat?

Would all my friends become my enemies?

When my family becomes astonished

Will my strengths becomes an enemy?

Is this "pretend to be? "

A vivid and magically?

A vivid and magically

I wonder, I wonder...

I wonder, whoooooaa-ooohhh-oaahhhhh

I wonder what my life would be if I...

Had that paaaper (Had that paper)

I'm just a ghetto boy (Ohhh, ohhh)

A little ghetto boy (If I liiive)

Now if I live on top of the world (The world)

Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls (Diamonds and peaaarls, yeah)

Still a ghetto boy (Mmm)

A little ghetto boy

Back in the days, when I was poor

I'm not poor anymore

But somedays

I said I wish that I was poor again

Back in the days, when I was poor

I'm not poor anymore (Da-da-da-da)

But somedays

I said I wish that I was poor again (Ohhh)

I remember when I stole deep

When it was cold outside

Sellin' packs and holdin' heat

Run up and I fold in the street

Penitentiary moldin' me

And the city get as cold as, thugs

I wonder will I come up? Get gunned up?

Turned up? Or anotha' sta-tistic

And my mama just goin', ball-istic

Realistic-ally, don't wanna do the caper

But I gotta get the paper, niggas ballin'

Cause the county judge is callin'

And the lawyer keep stallin'

Why my niggas keep fallin', victim

To the same old theory?

Another bad outcome, leavin' mothers just out-done

Then it suddenly just sinked in

That my nigga just died last weekend, tears rollin'

And I'm goin' off the deep end

But I gotta stay stong, for the mothers and the kids

Just standin' there lookin' at the chalk line

In his hand was a cocked nine

Now should I walk a straight line?

Cause "Time After Time"

I just wanna rewind, and talk to you

At the grave site, gave it to 'em every day and night

But it's alright, and I really wanna talk to you

I really wanna talk to you (Just really wanna talk to you)

Wassup junior, I've been waitin' to say this for a long time

I love you nigga, and I miss you (Johnny P: Ohhh, ohhh yea, ohh-oh)

I wonder what my life would be if I... (Whoooaa)

Had that paaaper (Whooaa)

I'm just a ghetto boy (My life would be)

A little ghetto boy (If I liiive)

Now if I live on top of the world

Shinin' like, diamonds and pearls (Diamonds and peaaarls, yeah)

Still a ghetto boy (Mmm)

A little ghetto boy (Ohhh)