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Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)

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Little Ghetto Boy (Prelude)

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[Malik Yusef]You know you ghetto boy, when you got a face, with a scarAnd yo' highest aspirations is a place, and a carShorties pull out and bussssst, like a money shotNow he on the run, he hotAnd he hurtin his Granny and she the only one he gotThe hood so shadyYou give up hope, of ever even tryin to find a sunny, spot--light, they caught him at the stop--light, but if he woulda run that yellowThen he coulda, run the globeBut insteed, with speedThey put one in the middle of his frontal, lobelike a unicornI'm just tryin to keep you, informedTo my little ghetto soldiers in they, goldgreen, red, and blue uni-forms - chuuch!But I'm feeling like the loneliest monkSo I pull me a Thelonius Monk and blew, the hornAnd we don the monikers of goons and gangstersAnd are trained to conduct ourselves true, to formSo we add a Shorty, a Money, a MackA Lil', a Eazy, or a Young to our nameSo all the big ballers grab rims and hung, in the gameAnd there's a degree, of difficul-tyto make it from the ghetto boy into the man-hoodEspecially when you know that yo' fresh greenswill help eliminated a canned, goodCan, good, and bad co-exisssst?In a place with plenty of off ramps but no ex-its
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