Artist: Dr. Ama f/ Lady J, Royal Rapper Uncle Breezze Album: Sex, Crime & Audiotape Song: The Ghetto Typed by: Cno Evil [Royal Rapper Uncle Breezze] I was raised in the projects, a nightmare, in living hell With broken elevators, and pissy stairwells You want the facts, you want the truth, about our, young youth We got 12, year old girls, having sex, on the roof And crack fiends, smoke pipes, in the halls, all night And some kids, go to college, and back turn they life We got stick up kids, who bust shots at the cops And pregnant ladies, who get shot on the block No disrespect to the projects, but they raise rough necks These dudes are rude, they bust you with the tech Who rolls around in escalades, and Benz or a Lex With they iced out grills, and jewels and rolex And the end of the story let me tell you what's next Alotta brothers get shot, some live, some die In the ghetto, only the strong will survive I'm from the ghetto [Chorus: Royal Rapper Uncle Breezze w/ Lady J singing] I'm from the ghetto, oh why The single moms raise children on they own, til they grown I'm from the ghetto, oh why There's no peace in the streets, muthafucka police I'm from the ghetto, oh why The slums is where I'm from, where niggas, carry guns I'm from the ghetto, oh why [Dr. Ama] Tonight is the night, yeah, one of my people here Fight fair, make this tight clear, heart don't invite fear You got the platinum hanger with the icey cloths, oh yea We might stare, pull the nine mills, scrape you right here New York, nigga, the ghetto, my apes is hype here Don't give a fuck what you might hear, or how shit might appear But crime, can have a high appetitite here Doing wrong, is right here, simple niggas quick to take Flight here, guns come out, run 'em out his Nike airs In the P's, believe the weed smoke, is in the night air Son, give me a light, yeah, we ignite the blunt here Huh, light ya ass up, if you stunt here I see you hard there, but you come here, S.I. New York Be the frontier, wish a nigga would Try to front here, beef, you can get it nigga, anyway you want here Ghetto dudes, get to the point here [Chorus] [Lady J] We're living in the ghetto We're living in the ghetto We're living in the ghetto We're living in the ghetto [Chorus]