Joe Budden, Emanny - Ghetto Burbs lyrics
[Joe Budden, Emanny - Ghetto Burbs lyrics]
Always had big dreams
Everybody had big dreams though
I ain't never wanna stay here
I had no intentions i never had no plans
Live my life gotta know how to survive
Just can't hide these streets eat you alive
Ghetto burbs
Cause I'm from two different worlds
Ghetto burbs comin' from the ghetto burbs
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
From where the peddlers serve
Use hand gestures for words
Big-up to LA, they was ahead of the curve
My hood we gangbang
You can get left on the curb
Yep, I was raised here
But I'm tryin' to export
Police is crooked, the strippers is escorts
Like my homie Layla
Really I can't knock her
Cause she gettin' paper
Month ago she was knocked up
Baby daddy a dope-boy
Fresh home he was locked up
But he on the same shit
Fucked around and got shot up
In my same mind
I'm like why he even bother?
At the same time
Don't know what he was a part of
Layla over the casket, tears coming harder
The hood wins again
Another son with no father
Gotta take it in stride
'round here that's the usual
But I ain't accustomed
That shit I can't get used to
I'm trying to survive
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
From where the ghetto's disturbed
You can be dead in a hearse
Say a prayer daily and end
It with "better or worse" i lost faith
But grandma still keep her head up in church
Murder rate sky-high, employment is real low
Little kid try to rap
But will he get a deal? No
Cause poverty kills slow
Belief is beyond you
7 out of ever 10 bitches here got the monster
Like my little homie Tanya
I met her at Freaknik freak shit
The same bitch them niggas be all
Out in the street with
Open, in love with the service
But she got resentments you won't
See from the surface
Feel like so many women look great
So she worship caught AIDS from rape
Thought her whole life was worthless
Ho couldn't know how gorgeous her curves is
She fucking 'em raw and hope
To catch it on purpose you better survive
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
I ain't tryin' to act like my
Part of the ghetto's the worst
Niggas is tricks here
They'll buy stilettos for birds
How did I get here? They act
Like the metal don't hurt
You just getting high
Guess they trying to escape it
Or commit suicide assuming they
Couldn't take it the streets is cold
Still we run around naked
Success is a void and we
Replace it with hatred
That's your homie from way back
From so many years old
But friends turn green
Even that acted weird old
You think he cared? No
Y'all used to share clothes
Now you struggle for rent and he
Got ice in his earlobes
Your man won't even extend a hand
Meeting all his career goals
You need a whole 'nother plan
Your career's froze
Valuables are more valuable
Than everything even value to dude
Cause you gotta survive
Coming from this ghetto burb
Coming from the ghetto babe
Gotta know how to survive
Streets eat you alive
Coming from the ghetto burbs
Said the streets eat you alive, alive, yeah
Everybody had big dreams though
I ain't never wanna stay here
I had no intentions i never had no plans
Live my life gotta know how to survive
Just can't hide these streets eat you alive
Ghetto burbs
Cause I'm from two different worlds
Ghetto burbs comin' from the ghetto burbs
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
From where the peddlers serve
Use hand gestures for words
Big-up to LA, they was ahead of the curve
My hood we gangbang
You can get left on the curb
Yep, I was raised here
But I'm tryin' to export
Police is crooked, the strippers is escorts
Like my homie Layla
Really I can't knock her
Cause she gettin' paper
Month ago she was knocked up
Baby daddy a dope-boy
Fresh home he was locked up
But he on the same shit
Fucked around and got shot up
In my same mind
I'm like why he even bother?
At the same time
Don't know what he was a part of
Layla over the casket, tears coming harder
The hood wins again
Another son with no father
Gotta take it in stride
'round here that's the usual
But I ain't accustomed
That shit I can't get used to
I'm trying to survive
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
From where the ghetto's disturbed
You can be dead in a hearse
Say a prayer daily and end
It with "better or worse" i lost faith
But grandma still keep her head up in church
Murder rate sky-high, employment is real low
Little kid try to rap
But will he get a deal? No
Cause poverty kills slow
Belief is beyond you
7 out of ever 10 bitches here got the monster
Like my little homie Tanya
I met her at Freaknik freak shit
The same bitch them niggas be all
Out in the street with
Open, in love with the service
But she got resentments you won't
See from the surface
Feel like so many women look great
So she worship caught AIDS from rape
Thought her whole life was worthless
Ho couldn't know how gorgeous her curves is
She fucking 'em raw and hope
To catch it on purpose you better survive
Ghetto burbs, I'm from the ghetto of Jerz'
I ain't tryin' to act like my
Part of the ghetto's the worst
Niggas is tricks here
They'll buy stilettos for birds
How did I get here? They act
Like the metal don't hurt
You just getting high
Guess they trying to escape it
Or commit suicide assuming they
Couldn't take it the streets is cold
Still we run around naked
Success is a void and we
Replace it with hatred
That's your homie from way back
From so many years old
But friends turn green
Even that acted weird old
You think he cared? No
Y'all used to share clothes
Now you struggle for rent and he
Got ice in his earlobes
Your man won't even extend a hand
Meeting all his career goals
You need a whole 'nother plan
Your career's froze
Valuables are more valuable
Than everything even value to dude
Cause you gotta survive
Coming from this ghetto burb
Coming from the ghetto babe
Gotta know how to survive
Streets eat you alive
Coming from the ghetto burbs
Said the streets eat you alive, alive, yeah