Cham, Alicia Keys - Ghetto Story lyrics

This a survival story, True ghetto story
This is my story, Real ghetto story hey

I remember those days when hell was my home
When mi an Mama bed was a big piece a foam
An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb
When Mama gone a work mi go street go roam
I remember when Danny dem tek mi snow cone
An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome
I remember when wi visit dem
Wid pure big stone an the boy Danny pop out
Something weh full chrome
I remember when wi run Fatta
Get him knee blown
An mi best friend Richie get
Two inna him dome
I remember so di avenue tun inna war zone
An Mikey madda fly him out
Cause she get a loan
But, Mikey gaa to foreign and
Go tun Al Capone
Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own
Now a wi a lock the city and
That is well known
Yesterday Mikey call mi pon mi phone
Mi say Mikey
We get di ting dem dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole
A dem a duck now
We have whole heap a extra clip
Cau we nuh bruke no rahrahrahrah
Wi get di ting dem, so dem haffi rate wi
Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
And now the whole community a live greatly
Rah…Rahrah…Rah

I remember bout ‘80, Jamaica explode
When a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a run road
That a long before Laing dem
And even Bigga Ford
When Adams dem a Corporal nuh
Know the road code
I remember when we rob the
Chiney shop down the road
An rumour have it sey di
Chineyman have a sword but wi did have a one
Pop wey make outta board
So yu know di next day mama pot Overlooaad
I remember when wi skip di poll clerks
An dump di ballot box pon Tivoli outskirts
An hold a plane ticket and
Go chill over Turks
When mi come back a still inna
The hole mi a lurk
I remember those days when informer dirks
Get one inna him face and
Mi nuh get nuh perks
And di bigger heads dem are a couple of jerks
Cause a dem a mek di money
When a wi mash di works
We get di ting dem, dem outta luck now
Mi squeeze seven and the whole
A dem a duck now
We have whole heap a extra clip
Cau we nuh bruk no rahrahrahrah

Jamaica get screw, tru greed an glutton
Politics manipulate and press yutes button
But we rich now, so dem cyaa tell man notin
Cuz a we a mek Mama
A nyaam Fish an Muttonehhhh
Ova deh so mek mi tell unnu some'in
Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill me cousin
An mi here sey TD deh dey
But him sey he wasn't
Anytime mi fly down him
A get bout dozen…Cause