Spice 1 - Welcome To the Ghetto lyrics

Welcome to the ghetto

Livin day by day in my hood on the spot
See the same old things: same dope
Fiends cops just an average day in
The streets of California
5-0 find a young girl dead around the corner
Mommies on her knees she had
Tears in her eyes
And nobody knew why the young girl had to die
People look ashamed it's been
Like this fo years
Bloody sheets on her body face
Wet from her mama's tears
She couldn'ta been over 4-5
And if mommy wasn't based she
Would still be alive
But now the street is a place
You could be swallowed by death
Brothas takin each other's lives
And goin to rest in peace
I wonder if heaven got a ghetto
My cousin died last year
And I still can't let go
I walk the streets of my
City of my neighborhood
Seein dope fiends livin off can goods
15 niggas on the corner
And niggas die young in California
5-0 'll get a dope case and flaunt it
Have your ass on "America's Most Wanted"
But I don't slang or even gang bang
And though my old school homies
Do the same thang
I still got love cause you gotta live
So you can give and raise a family G
But you gotta do your best slangin D-O-P-E
So keep a grip on yourself and stay mellow
And welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)

Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)

From across the seas comes cocaine
But you never seen a black man fly the plane
Look at the news: a young black death
Was it drug related, take a guess
I flash when I look in the mirror black
Cause my reflection is a 9 millimeter Gat
I think about genocide
And have thoughts of my homies who died
Everybody backstabbin
But I ain't the one to talk I'm into gafflin
Death gives a shit about your color
But yet I see mo dead young brothas
I'm goin crazy out here
Seein 24 brothas die by the end of the year
And I still gotta deal with the 5-0
And I stopped sellin dope in 9-0
But if I came to it i probably still do it
Put a Nine in my draws get straight to it
I hope that I never see the day
That I get 20 years for a cake
B-K-A as a key so open up the door for the
Mo' money but I ain't gotta do that G
Cause I'm down with the F-A to the C
To the U to the L T-Y g-nut X tra Large
And S-P-IC-E make niggas feel like jello
And welcome to the ghetto

(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto
(Make me want to holler
The way they do my life)
Welcome to the ghetto welcome to the ghetto
Welcome to the ghetto welcome to the ghetto
Welcome to the ghetto welcome to the ghetto
Welcome to the ghetto

Ain't no justice it's just us
And any nigga with the guts loves to bust
At the police niggas can't get peace
Sendin' troops to the ghetto
Like the middle east
My homie on the block got beat down
And he never sold an ouce, a key, a pound
Suicide was a notion
Sometimes I wanna run and dive in the ocean
But killin' myself ain't the
Answer cause the problems
Of the world need a cure like cancer
And everybody see the problem but
The president and he
Ain't livin' in the ghetto so that's evident
I quit pullin' over, fuck the police
Cause they beat Rodney King
Like a savage beast
Now motherfuckers on my block
Think it's Glock time
Open up season on cop time
So welcome to the ghetto
Where niggas try to play yo ass like a cello
The mayor got the projects boarded up
And the white and the blacks all sorted up
My people livin' in poverty
And everytime i wanna' max I'm
On a motherfuckers property
Make me wanna' get the gat to and peel a
Cap to i gives a fuck about the tattoo
Tears, spendin' years in the P-E-N
Cop dead gone with the wind
Fuck love in the ghetto see 187 THOUSAND G!