Little Ghetto Boy (prelude) Lyrics - Wake Up! - John Legend & The Roots

[** feat. Malik Yusef:] 

[Malik Yusef:] 

You know you ghetto boy, when you got a face, with a scar 

And yo' highest aspirations is a place, and a car 

Shorties pull out and bussssst, like a money shot 

Now he on the run, he hot 

And he hurtin' his Granny and she the only one he got 

The hood so shady 

You give up hope, of ever even tryin' to find a sunny, spot- 

-light, they caught him at the stop- 

-light, but if he would'a run that yellow 

Then he could'a, run the globe 

But instead, with speed 

They put one in the middle of his frontal, lobe 

Like a unicorn 

I'm just tryin' to keep you, informed 

To my little ghetto soldiers in they, gold 

Green, red, and blue uni-forms - chuuch! 

But I'm feeling like the loneliest monk 

So I pull me a Thelonius Monk and blew, the horn 

And we don the monikers of goons and gangsters 

And are trained to conduct ourselves true, to form 

So we add a Shorty, a Money, a Mack 

A Lil', a Eazy, or a Young to our name 

So all the big ballers grab rims and hung, in the game 

And there's a degree, of difficul-ty 

To make it from the ghetto boy into the man-hood 

Especially when you know that yo' fresh greens 

Will help eliminated a canned, good 

Can, good, and bad co-exisssst? 

In a place with plenty of off ramps but no ex-its 

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