[ti:Lil Ghetto Boy]
[ar:Dr. Dre]
[al:Death Row Dayz]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Lil' Ghetto Boy - Dr. Dre
[00:38.85]Wake up jumped out my bed
[00:40.87]I'm in a 2 man cell with my homie lil 12 dead
[00:44.65]Murder was the case that they gave me
[00:46.95]Dear God I wonder can you save me
[00:49.81]I'm only 18 so I'm a young buck
[00:52.13]It's a riot if I don't scrap I'm getting stuck
[00:54.54]But that's the life of a G I guess
[00:56.66]Ese's way deep shanked two in the chest
[00:59.33]Best run 'cause brothers is dropping quicker
[01:02.44]Too late d**n down goes another n***a
[01:05.51]Bouncing off the walls throwing them dogs
[01:07.75]Getting that rep as a young hog
[01:10.24]It ain't nothing like the street life
[01:12.14]You better be strapped with your shank 'cause ain't no fist fight
[01:15.48]So I guess I gots to handle mine
[01:17.51]Since I did the crime I gots to do my time
[01:20.00]Them say me grow up to be nothing
[01:21.31]Look at me now and tell me what you see
[01:22.95]I am what I am it's only me
[01:25.27]Little ghetto boy
[01:30.16]Playing in the ghetto street
[01:35.98]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[01:39.63]And have to face responsibility
[01:45.31]Now I'm holding a dub sitting on swoll
[01:48.35]27 years old up for parole stroll
[01:52.09]I'm back up on my feet with my mind on the money
[01:54.53]That I'll be making soon as I touch the streets
[01:57.48]Things done changed on this side
[01:59.33]Remember they used to thump but now they blast right
[02:02.31]But it ain't no thing to me
[02:04.32]'Cause now I'm what they call a loced-assed OG
[02:07.47]The little homies from the hood with grip
[02:09.48]Are the ones I get with 'cause I'm down to set trip
[02:12.78]N***a I'm bigger than you so what you wanna do
[02:15.72]Didn't know he had a 22
[02:17.95]Straight sitting behind his back
[02:20.25]I grabbed his pockets and then I heard six caps
[02:23.36]I fell to the ground with blood on my hands
[02:26.66]I didn't understand
[02:28.37]How a n***a so young could bust a cap
[02:31.16]I used to be the same way back
[02:33.81]I guess that's what I get for what
[02:35.71]For trying to jack them little homies for they grip
[02:38.31]Me learn many things from what me see from the street
[02:40.95]The outcome of what I've come to be
[02:43.32]Little ghetto boy
[02:48.23]Playing in the ghetto street
[02:54.08]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[02:57.62]And have to face responsibility
[03:04.58]Something for the real OGs to get with
[03:06.89]Some facts made our made now you wanna run and play
[03:09.38]Like every single day really doe
[03:11.53]You know me I'm the smooth macadamien gaming them for my homie
[03:15.54]No needing being calm if you pack right
[03:18.03]And learning just enough to keep your sack right
[03:20.45]Late nights I wonder what they getting for
[03:23.03]Early morning on the corners what they hitting for
[03:25.85]Seven young G's put they serve down
[03:28.27]In a G ride east side's where they swerve now
[03:30.90]Not thinking about what's really going on
[03:32.80]Got crept on stepped on now they gone
[03:34.98]I spent 4 years in the
[03:36.34]County with nothing but convicts around me
[03:39.03]But now I'm back at the Pound
[03:40.42]And we expose ways for the youth to survive
[03:43.46]Some think it's wrong but we tend to think it's right
[03:46.41]So make all them ends you can make
[03:48.90]'Cause when you're broke you break check it out
[03:51.46]So ain't no need for your mama to trip
[03:53.39]'Cause you's a hustling-ass youngsta clocking your grip
[03:56.11]And now me finally grown as
[03:57.19]You can see you can see still an OG
[03:58.82]For life and always remain to be
[04:01.40]Little ghetto boy boy
[04:06.35]Playing in the ghetto street
[04:12.09]What'cha gonna do when you grow up
[04:15.74]And have to face responsibility