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Featuring Bishop Lamont, MK Asante and Talib Kweli (Verse) I throw my 2 cents in We'll make it 5 percent then If black man is God then the ghetto must be heaven Under fire holy war against the races of the devil Lord deny believe in atheist that prestrict us to this level Yard where there's gods or street level Where's there's no cross guards So the children get crossed Get lost get struck by vehicles With no car facts These type of rides can't buy at a car max Self hatred from hatred The process is ancient, ignorance , violence Innocence they take it She once was a higher priestess in a temple so sacred And now anyone can enter, desecrate it We went from pyramids to cribs From Amon-Ra to niggas that be rah rah Grown men continuing the curse A curious case of Benajmin Button Living life in reverse (Hook) SongtexteLil' ghetto boy Playing in the ghetto streets What'cha gonna do when you grow up And have to face responsibility? (Verse) Transforming from O-Dog to mo godz *MK Asante* with a flow job Create a Mecca in the ghetto what is your Hajj Pilgramage instilling kids with some no large Mathematics and knowledge what is your problem Making you dumber than a fucking door knob Avalanche they brains with white shit that's a snow job Discover by little shorties while stealing forties Fuck you talking about, she move west late fifties Black migration from the south Advance to Lousiana With my grandpa and grandma Granny 7 sisters, 3 brothers Dream of less discrimination, *better* education We cali natives, first generation Watts Towers, wilted flowers Alot of us don't make it to adults subcoming to white power Tattoo on their face, what a young nigga do What about when you're 28 on a job interview My brothers and sisters, followers instead of leaders Rich chicks with a bad attitude , it's called a diva But a broke chick with a bad attitude, just called a stupid bitch I'll preach if you insist Consequnces and reprecusions, When the boys turn to men and the self destruction (Hook) Lil' ghetto boy Playing in the ghetto streets (Verse) Gods in the hood, trapped in facades in the hood Always getting even 'cause what's the odds in the hood So we mob so misunderstood we overstand City of applause clapping like it's Pakistan Rosewood to Rosecrans, young boys on their Conan Freedom or death, not a slogan Like the Nature of a Threat ain't a slow jam My Eloheems off that wet through the badlands Black cinematics so visual And if it's gods in the ghetto this the ritual Children of the night candlelight the vigil Smoke a L with Ellison now we visible Something out of nothing maximize the minimal Prison Indust turning Gods to criminals Forcing us to revise these spirituals For your mental reviving our pinnacle (Hook) Lil' ghetto boy Playing in the ghetto streets What'cha gonna do when you grow up And have to face responsibility? (Verse) This the song for those who finish singing People's perception is their lethal weapon You can lead the rebel to the revolution But you can't make him do the shooting I'm schooled in the ways 'cause the teacher's a cursed at me Indulge in the perks of the job like nurse Jackie Self medicated I'm writing my own prescription Self preservation I diagnose is my condition Conflicted by these visions of lethal my addiction Convicted by religion this planet is heaven's prison This my resurrection invested my breath as eleven risen When you survive and not living You ain't making the best decisions Hardly a role model, I'm quick to stick chicks That's thicker than Coke bottles get with it with no problems So shallow with my feelings , I'm feeling my soul hollow Said my voices been wanting the people to chose to follow Never gasp I don't feel I'm so special I'm no Mavado Green as avocado These light weighted rappers get faded off of Moscatto Mix it with mavado I'm legendary Apollo (Hook) Lil' ghetto boy Playing in the ghetto streets What'cha gonna do when you grow up And have to face responsibility? Aus Songtexte Mania