The World Is a Ghetto

What we see (what we see) everyday (everyday)

Livin' in the ghetto this is where I stay

(What we do) what we do (to get by) to get by

Live or die, the world is a ghetto

Let's take a journey to the other side

Where many people learn to live with their handicaps, while the others die

Where muthafuckas had no money spots

And if they did then they ass went insane

When all the money stops

I'm from the ghetto so I'm used to that

Look on your muthafuckin map and find Texas, and see where Houston at

It's on the borderline of hard times

And it's seldom that you hear niggas prayin' and givin' God time

That's why your ask my mom pray for me

Because I know that even I gots to die, and he got a day for me

And every morning I wake up I'm kinda glad to be alive

'Cause thousands of my homeboys died

And very few died of old age

In most cases the incident covered up the whole page

From Amsterdam to Amarillo

It ain't no secret

The world is a ghetto

What we see (what we see) everyday (everyday)

Livin' in the ghetto this is where I stay

(What we do) what we do (to get by) to get by

Live or die, the world is a ghetto

Five hundred niggas died in guerilla warfare

In a village in Africa, but didn't nobody care

They just called up the goddamn gravedigger

And said come get these muthafuckin' niggas

Just like they do in the 5th Ward

In the South Park and The Bronx and the Watts

You know they got crooked cops

Working for the system

Makin' po' muthafuckas out of victims

'Cause don't nobody give a fuck about the po'

It's double jeopardy if you're black or latino

They got their muthafuckin' drugs in the slums

Got us killing one another over crumbs

Think I'm lying? Well muthafucka I got proof

Name a section in your city where minorities group

And I'mma show you prostitutes, dope and hard times

And a murder rate that never declines