Master P, UGK - Ghetto Life lyrics

Uhhh, shhhh don't say nothin' just listen
(For all y'all ghetto people out there)
Through like all the bloodshed
And all the tears and all
The homies I done lost (Calliope Projects)
Ain't nothing like the ghetto
If I had to do it all again
I probably wouldn't change a thing

I live my life homie, but not for greed
Picture young sistes and brothers
Planting their ghetto seeds
Ain't nothing promised in this ghetto but
We lost cause we black
Picture 5 kids in the project
In a one room shack
I had big dreams of making it big
I caught nightmares of fools splittin' my wig
I couldn't change for the guppies
That tried to hate
Picture me a ghetto child with
A house by the lake
Ain't nothing promised but we not to blame
Sinning, uhh to make some change
I wish the society feel my pain
Empty me underneath we all the same
High construction on penatentiary bars
They main focus is blacks with fancy cars
And they beat us on high interest loans
Repossess our property cause we
Don't think to own

This ghetto live got us
Hustlin' and scufflin'
I said penatentiary chances keep
Us thuggin' and muggin'

Now I was known for walking on
The wrong side of the tracks
Slanging, smoking and drinking yack
Reminiscing and thinking back
A lot of facts have been changed
We take the innocent and guilty
I played the cards that they dealed me
Went through changes that dealed me
Into a better man but
Most often I'm misunderstood
Call me a gangsta 'cause I
Relay consciousness from the hood
But alot of good comes from
What you call negativity
We working with no leverage or incentive g
'Cause their nothing you ever give to me
On television or them history books
Got black kids thinking they only out
On this earth to be crooks
See all these mystery looks
That's on the face of the boss man
When he can see a young black
Brother no longer lost man
They try to break your spirit
Before you figure out the game
By the time you do you lost your fame
Reputation and your name
But baby we can do it take
Your time do it right
You don't wanna be a superstar overnight
Trying to live that ghetto life

I live my life for my son
So he can have something
Blessed just to see a new day
So I'm trying to grab something
I been on top of the world
And at the bottom too
When you up you got lots of friends
And when you down it's few
The way we grew up was wrong
I'm the first to admit
I know God and just drop me
Here to be going through this
I lost D-Ray last year and
It's just not the same
Just at the time in his life
When he was trying to change
He told me, Pimp I need help
I want up out the game i made a promise
I lied cause the next night he died
I guess our childhood is over
'cause man ain't nothing funny
And everything that I love revolve
Around sex and money
I wanna have some more kids but
In the 90's that's crazy
The woman's polluted so it ain't
Safe to make babies
And it's a shame cause Uncle Sam ain't
Got no job to pay me
But pay the mightiest 40 g's for
Every year they enslave me it's crazy