Busta Rhymes, Rick James - In The Ghetto (Album Version)

[00:01.35] (Feat. Rick James) [00:01.56] [Busta Rhymes] [00:02.52] Y'know, my homey Treach from Naughty By Nature once said [00:07.15] If you ain't from the ghetto, don't COME to the fuckin ghetto [00:11.53] But I'ma let one of our most immaculate tour guides [00:13.52] Take us ALL through the ghetto - my nigga Rick James! [00:16.64] [Rick James - sampled from "Ghetto Life" + (backup singers)] [00:18.41] When I was a young boy, growin up in the ghetto! [00:21.10] Hangin out on corners, singin with the fellas [00:24.51] Lookin for the cute chicks, tryin to find me big fun [00:29.02] Lookin for some trouble, or anyone who'll give me some [00:33.53] I was young and crazy! (In the ghetto) [00:38.10] Didn't know what my life would be (In the ghetto) [00:42.18] I was dumb and oh so lazy (In the ghetto) [00:46.17] Something had a spell on me (In the ghetto) [00:50.35] You all know what I'm talkin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [00:52.40] (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [00:55.03] You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:03.74] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:08.26] [Busta Rhymes] [01:09.30] (In the ghetto) Sure we be takin them chances [01:12.98] While we search for the answers we be smokin them cancer sticks [01:14.10] Police provokin muh'fuckers we dancin [01:15.49] And we be dodgin them bullets they be poppin off at us, shit [01:17.27] But yet we always romance the street [01:19.14] And fall in love with the hood 'til somebody come blast the heat [01:21.10] Always up to no good, so all of my fam could eat [01:23.19] See in the hood we hungry - hey nigga we playin for keeps [01:25.63] My soldiers on the block get on it [01:27.90] It be good if you flaunt it, we will take if we want it [01:29.96] See niggaz from the ghetto got a different state of mind [01:31.69] With a different kind of hustle and we iller with the grind [01:33.77] And develop our muscle 'til we sicker with the shine [01:35.49] In the struggle, thus our money come quicker doin crime [01:37.74] I see the way we rep the hood, gotta love me [01:40.40] You can take me out the ghetto, but you can't take it from me [01:42.41] Gotta love it [01:44.19] [Chorus: Rick James + (backup singers)] [01:45.71] (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:51.42] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:53.00] You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:54.03] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [01:59.25] [Busta Rhymes] [02:00.00] (In the ghetto) That's where we get into that street shit [02:02.02] Hustle hard, try to get money quick (In the ghetto) [02:03.32] That's where I got my name from [02:06.05] I learned to get money and I got all my game from (In the ghetto) [02:07.32] That's where you eat with a bunch of the wolves [02:10.36] And get to hustlin as hard as you could (In the ghetto) [02:12.30] Until your cake stackin shit'll get good [02:14.09] Throw a block party for the whole hood (In the ghetto) [02:15.85] With them burnout cellys [02:18.58] Talk crazy, sell drugs in front of Pancho Deli [02:20.09] Crackhead chicks still smuggle babies in they belly [02:21.85] And them piss in elevators 'til the lobby all smelly (In the ghetto) [02:24.34] That's where I keep my ratchets [02:26.84] Get my instincts and survival tactics [02:28.84] Ain't nuttin like the hood nigga, I don't care [02:30.54] You survivin in the ghetto you can make it anywhere [02:32.88] Gotta love it [02:34.84] [Chorus: Rick James + (backup singers)] [02:36.01] (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [02:38.87] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [02:40.82] You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [02:42.82] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [02:48.54] [Interlude: Busta Rhymes] [02:49.86] To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto [02:51.67] West coast niggas - rep your ghetto [02:53.89] Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto [02:55.68] Down South niggas - rep your ghetto [02:58.12] To my East coast niggas - rep your ghetto [03:00.12] West coast niggas - rep your ghetto [03:02.38] Midwest niggas - rep your ghetto [03:05.38] To my Dirty South niggas - rep your ghetto [03:06.60] [Busta Rhymes] [03:07.80] (In the ghetto) Even though they act rude [03:09.36] You'll always find a good chick to hold a brick for they dude [03:11.13] Behind the bullshit, me and my click on the move [03:13.36] We honor the code of the street, and live by the rules (In the ghetto) [03:15.62] Is where, all of the hood's at [03:17.85] Find the most crooks and they sell the most drugs at [03:19.35] Where you find beautiful women and Rugrats [03:21.88] And some of the most powerful people, I love that! [03:23.87] C'mon [03:25.16] [Outro: Rick James + (backup singers)] [03:26.17] (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [03:27.86] You all know what I'm talkin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [03:29.42] (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [03:30.91] You all know what I'm singin 'bout (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [03:33.65] Ghetto life (Talkin 'bout ghetto life) [03:35.14] (In the ghetto) [03:42.28] "Never mind who you thought I was, I'm Rick James, bitch" [applause] [03:46.65] "Cocaine is a hell of a drug" [03:53.39]