| Yo, wake up, wake up, ghetto children
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| Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
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| Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
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| Wake up, wake up, ghetto children
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| Wake up, wake up, Hey, hey
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| You’re a ghetto boy, you’re my life
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| And there’s so much for you to protect and to save
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| And baby boy don’t hit your wife
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| Cause your kids may grow up someday to be this way, yeah
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| You don’t know what you may be
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| To some boy in society
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| There’s a secret to why
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| You must survive
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| So listen to what we say
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| Cause this type of shit happens every day
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| Come for yours cause dreams come true
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| And this is the message that we bring through
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| No matter what teachers say to you
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| Ghetto children are beautiful
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| Baby girl you’re my life
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| It’s important that you smile
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| And never cry,
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| Study math and your sciences
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| Maybe you’ll figure why we subtract and not multiply
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| You don’t know what you may be
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| To some girl in society
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| There’s a secret to why
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| We must survive
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| So listen to what we say
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| Cause this type of shit happens every day
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| Come for yours cause dreams come true
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| And this is the message that we bring through
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| No matter what teachers say to you
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| Ghetto children are beautiful
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| Crack town, ghetto in the city
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| Buildings are abandoned but the girls are still pretty
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| A child looks in the mirror, yeah to see my life clearer
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| All I see is ghetto keys, to this jet black coke gram
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| Nine eleven course, of course 911 don’t mean help
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| The only ones that need help, is them sons without wealth
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| It’s apparent that this nation, they don’t know what they facing
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| Young natural born killers, and these street corner masons
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| You want that type of money, that you see in the mob cliques
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| With your stashes in the drawers, yes with the lumps under my carpet
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| Listen to your heart, why should I listen to you
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| I was here from the start, but you don’t bring no money through
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| Look I only feel capes, and to get it I kill Jakes
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| By the time I’m 20 wanna be the ghetto Bill Gates
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| You a were born to be an angel, that was in my brain too
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| Now the only Star Spangle’s coming out my Kangol
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| Now that I’m out it’s like the whole world flames you
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| Although the ghetto’s nothing like the conclusion I came to
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| Your friends see you playing both sides, now they don’t claim you
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| Ghetto children change the world, don’t let the world change you
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| Come on, word, nerd, word
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| Come for yours cause dreams come true
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| And this is the message that we bring through
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| No matter what teachers say to you
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| Ghetto children are beautiful
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| Say hey now, hey now, now
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| Hey now, hey now
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| Little children wanna seem part of
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| The whole world wants to be apart of
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| A little ghetto things, a little ghetto things
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| Ay yo, ay yo
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| Little children wanna seem part of
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| The whole world wants to be apart of
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| My little ghetto kings, my little ghetto queens |