Ghetto Ride-Dirty

[ti:Ghetto Ride] [ar:Dirty] [al:Keep It Pimp & Gangsta] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ghetto Ride - Dirty [00:27.19]Now when I was born I wasn't warned of all the harm that I would [00:29.85]See [00:30.09] [00:30.76]Been harassed by the police seein' my peeps gettin' killed in the streets [00:33.50] [00:34.05]Most don't have no food to eat and most don't have no place to sleep [00:37.56]Is this how it's 'posed to be livin' our life uncomfortably now [00:41.32]Somebody better give me some answers if they don't want no beef to start [00:44.77]Because I'll draw down on your preacher and make him get in contact with god [00:48.12]And ask the man why the times so hard why do my people struggle [00:50.74] [00:51.58]Why do my people suffer and why do we hate each other [00:54.40] [00:54.92]And can't you see how corrupt this land here really is [00:57.24] [00:57.98]Can't you see them ghetto tears my folks been cryin' for years [01:01.70]A lot of ones don' went astray a lot of ones confused to say [01:04.93]But a lot of us pray hopin' that you'll come down here and get us [01:07.48]One day [01:08.35]And get us off this evil place so you can teach us right [01:10.86] [01:11.85]We've been deceived by the beast that's why we been so blind [01:15.26]So lord I take this time to tell you how I feel [01:17.85] [01:18.43]And I hope you hear me come and get your son up out of here [01:21.74] [01:22.70]Let me take you on a ghetto ride [01:26.07] [01:30.39]Through this crooked world [01:32.27] [01:36.23]Wash the pain and tears from the eyes [01:39.51] [01:43.84]Of the boys and girls [01:45.56] [01:47.90]Well I can remember comin' home one day and all our furniture was gone [01:51.09] [01:51.71]My mama cryin' cause all we got is the clothes we had on [01:55.49]My mama was strong she wipe her eyes and picked up the phone [01:58.19]My grandma stayed right down the street so she made that my home [02:01.28] [02:01.79]I love my grandma mms burnet and her first name Louise [02:05.01] [02:05.81]She raised me for some years till my mama got on her feet [02:08.80]It was a house full bout twelve folk everyday tryin' to eat [02:12.07]Can you imagine the youngest two was just me and me g [02:15.34]Hell we stayed fed off instant grits and gravy [02:17.39] [02:18.48]Her whittlings and pig ears was so good they make you want to Bankhead [02:21.54]Now tell me that you think that my life would have been so tainted [02:24.14]If my dad was there because he ain't dead [02:26.31] [02:26.92]It's some I wanna tell but I can't say it [02:28.97]Why cause the radio want play it [02:30.26]At the age of nine I was a dank head [02:32.36]Coc*ine in my hand tryin' to make bread [02:33.67]I gotta nine in my hand so I ain't scared [02:35.23]Hit the block everyday seein' blood shed [02:36.42]But that's the price you gotta pay to keep your folks fed [02:39.32]Woo for real jump in the drop top coupe Deville and just [02:43.15] [02:43.74]Let me take you on a ghetto ride [02:46.93] [02:51.43]Through this crooked world [02:52.88] [02:57.36]Wash the pain and tears from the eyes [03:00.57] [03:05.01]Of the boys and girls [03:06.55] [03:09.49]So many days of so much pain got me thinking 'bout blowin' my brains [03:12.15] [03:12.74]How can I change who will explain [03:14.16]How to maintain while trapped in this game [03:16.20]Stackin' my mailin' off crack sellin' me and my family gotta eat [03:19.53]I knew I was wrong for skeetin' them stops [03:21.28]But it kept the house with light and heat [03:23.18]Kept some shoes up on our feet kept our stomachs off of 'e' [03:26.19]Now who can you judge you can't hold a grudge [03:28.44]I did this more than just for me [03:30.12]I did this more than just for keeps I did this more for those in [03:32.86]The streets [03:33.29]So if you feel my troubles want you come and role with me [03:36.52]OK the ni**a who kill my boy Willie only get fifteen years [03:39.46] [03:40.26]But you know that time get split so he'll do about seven yours [03:43.31]How crooked the system is for good behavior he'll probably do just three [03:46.85]So in actuality this ni**a here don' kill my boy for free [03:50.03]I'm tryin' to understand the plan the lord got for you and me [03:53.08]How the good die aw so young and the bad live long to eat [03:56.89]My body and soul might be so clean but the hood got my ways so [04:00.06]Dirty [04:00.68]I'm up early on my knees beggin' this world not to hurt me [04:03.17]And that's for real [04:04.00] [04:04.75]Let me take you on a ghetto ride [04:08.11] [04:12.48]Through this crooked world [04:14.04] [04:18.31]Wash the pain and tears from the eyes [04:21.84] [04:26.05]Of the boys and girls