Ghetto Children Lyrics - Ruff Ryders

We, we are the champions, we can't stop 

'Cause you just can't keep them 

Ruff Ryders down, down, down 

By any means necessary, I'mma hold down tradition 

White tee, blue jeans, yeah, I fit the description 

Know what's richer for the drugs in our waist 

We dark so they put the flashlight in our face 

Racial profiling send me straight to the island 

Hit me with the night stick, the captain start smiling 

The foul smell of the ghetto will burn your nose hair 

It's forbidden, so no one goes there 

The struggle never stops 'til we wake up to spoiled milk 

And roaches crawling out our cereal box 

They feed us lies, blind our eyes 

If you're hand's the same color as mine's, black man rise 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning 

My people's been in the cage for criminal ways 

For the fact that we couldn't take minimum wage 

We had stacks in the back of the building 

Brothers is crooks but we still read books to the children 

Now I keep my mind in the movement 

Time in the movement 'cause the ghetto need a lot of improvement 

Now we gotta plan for the future and watch for the man 

'Cause they don't cuff you no more, they just shoot ya 

Time for a new beginning, revolution is coming 

See the bullets out the ruger spinning 

And we ain't gon' stand down, we gon' stand up 

Black man, black power, put your black hands up 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning 

I used to wear bow ties and listen to Farrakhan 

Now I'm on the block like the strip is a marathon 

The hood ain't been the same since Malcolm and King gone 

Tales from the hood is what I sing on a rap song 

Everybody petrified ever since 9/11 

The hood was under attack before 9/11 

Tell me how we got crack and automatic weapons? 

My worst nightmare is Bush getting re-elected 

The jails is packed, everybody stressed out 

Gimme the key and I'm letting all the lifers out 

So they could rebuild and work for a dollar bill 

Take the shackles off ya mind, we running outta time 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning 

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings 

Ghetto children this is how we living 

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison 

Don't worry it's a totally new beginning