when you live in the ghetto you still laugh
you still cry
you still run and play somehow you might get some skates
you might even get used to playing eat the peg
it's a ghetto game
and yes you still have to go to school
and you still have to get good grades
we went to church alot
so you learn a lot about God
and in the ghetto faith is your greatest currency especially when the lights get cut off
and you have to wash up at the sink in cold water. Baking Soda is the deodorant and the toothpaste.
Sometimes you don't have covers so you sleep under all your clothes
while sleeping in your clothes.
But even in those conditions you learn how to love each other and everyone.
Yeah it's easy to love when you are poor but many don't know that like they don't know about
syrup sandwiches and sugar water.
When this becomes your everyday you remember what grandma or big mama said
my daddy told me
he said
"Son what ever you be.
Be the best!"
"Son what ever you be.
Be the best"
Sometimes we make it out
Sometimes we leave
but end up right back.
The bad thing
is a lot of us die there.
a lot of us die there!
Died there
It's not that we aren't talented
or smart or not gifted.
We are policed like Runaway slaves.
You know in the hood
they plant drugs there
and even bring guns
and just leave them
so we could get them.
They put cameras in the light post to watch you try to survive.
Then they round you up in the paddy wagon
and take young boys to youth detention centers and boot camps.
A lot of them are now adults in private owned prisons becoming slaves again.
A lot of them are now adults in private owned prisons becoming slaves again.
It's like the ghetto is a extension of the plantation
and it all came from Willie lynching.
It's really a scientific test they've done on rats.
So if you've never lived that life
Don't look down on those who have
it is not easy to live in a world where everyone hates you because of the color of your skin.
Tilla Sonrise peace
it is not easy to live in a world where everyone hates you because of the color of your skin.
it is not easy to live in a world where everyone hates you because of the color of your skin.
It's like the ghetto is a extension of the plantation
We are policed like Runaway slaves.
A lot of them are now adults in private owned prisons becoming slaves again.
it is not easy to live in a world where everyone hates you because of the color of your skin.
Tilla Sonrise Peace
Shot out to
Dixville Georgia and
Hitch Village in the Seaport
Tilla Sonrise peace
The Voice of a Nation
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