Ghetto Life Lyrics - Master P

Don't say nothin', just listen 

[Incomprehensible] all the bloodshed 

And all the tears and all the homies I done lost 

Ain't nothing like the ghetto if I had to do it all again 

I probably wouldn't change a thing 

I live my life, homie but not for greed 

Picture young sisters and brothers planting ghetto seeds 

Ain't nothing promised in this ghetto but we lost 'cause we black 

Picture 5 kids in the project in a one room shack 

I had big dreams of making it big 

I caught nightmares of fools splittin' my wig 

I couldn't change for the guppies that tried to hate 

Picture me a ghetto child with a house by the lake 

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Ain't nothing promised but we're not to blame 

Sinning, to make some change 

I wish the society feel my pain 

Empty me underneath, we all the same 

High construction on penitentiary bars 

They main focus is blacks with fancy cars 

And they beat us on high interest loans 

Repossess our property 'cause we don't think to own 

This ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

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Now, I was known for walking on the wrong side of the tracks 

Slanging, smoking and drinking yack, reminiscing and thinking back 

A lot of facts have been changed, we take the innocent and guilty 

I played the cards that they dealed me 

Went through changes that dealed me 

Into a better man but most often I'm misunderstood 

Call me a gangsta 'cause I relay consciousness from the hood 

But a lot of good comes from what you call negativity 

We working with no leverage or incentive G 

'Cause their nothing you ever give to me 

On television or them history books 

Got young black kids thinking, they put on this earth just to be crooks 

See, all these mystery looks that's on the face of the boss man 

When he can see a young black brother's no longer lost man 

He try to break your spirit before you figure out the game 

By the time you do, you lost your fame, reputation and your name 

But baby, we can do it, take your time do it right 

You don't wanna be a superstar overnight, trying to live that ghetto life 

This ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I live my life for my son so he can have something 

Blessed just to see a new day so I'm trying to grab something 

I been on top of the world and at the bottom too 

When you up, you got lots of friends and when you down it's few 

The way we grew up was wrong, I'm the first to admit 

I know God and just drop me here to be going through this 

I lost D-Ray last year and it's just not the same 

Just at the time in his life when he was trying to change 

He told me, "Pimp, I need help, I want up out the game" 

I made a promise, I lied 'cause the next night he died 

I guess our childhood is over 'cause, man, ain't nothing funny 

And everything that I love revolve around sex and money 

I wanna have some more kids but in the 90's that's crazy 

The woman's polluted so it ain't safe to make babies 

And it's a shame 'cause Uncle Sam ain't got no job to pay me 

But pay the mightiest 40 G's for every year they enslave me, it's crazy 

This ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

This ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin' 

I said, this ghetto life got us hustlin' and scufflin' 

I said, penitentiary chances keep us thuggin' and muggin'