Born In The Ghetto (edited album version)-Fat Joe

[ti:Born In The Ghetto (explicit album version)] [ar:Fat Joe] [al:Loyalty] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.69]Born In The Ghetto - Fat Joe [00:02.56]Yeah it's time baby [00:05.30] [00:06.35]It's time to speak the truth maturity [00:08.26] [00:10.16]Huh niggas gotta evolve to let niggas know the real [00:12.82] [00:13.70]Ya call yourself real [00:14.82]Ya gotta start speakin about the real [00:16.64]This is Joe Crack The Don [00:18.35]And this is what I'm bringin to you [00:20.20]Uh yo nowadays I'm flirtin with uncertain death [00:24.37]Lord I gotta be dyin cause after all this cryin [00:26.95]How much more hurtin's left [00:28.31]When will the pain stop [00:29.75]This depression and anxiety [00:30.89]Is gonna make me show another side of me [00:33.78]My niggas ride with me cause I'm the truth [00:36.13]There's benefits to rollin with this clique [00:38.09]Don't nobody f**k with you [00:39.47]Still they label me a tyrant and a backstabber [00:42.19]But study the facts of crack [00:43.81]The sh*t don't add up [00:45.10]I'm bringin opportunity to my community [00:47.55]Probably the only rapper that cares [00:49.14]But still you out to ruin me [00:50.91]Who you foolin B I'm for unity [00:53.13]Latins and blacks [00:53.92]Could you fathom the strength [00:55.32]We have of the two it attach [00:57.00]Born together voted alike [00:58.81]These uncle charm politicians ain't holdin us right [01:01.67]How could the same ni**a be 20 years in office [01:04.29]When it's clear the only thing [01:05.57]That's risin is unemployment [01:07.21]Abortion little kids havin kids [01:09.61]The school system is failing us [01:11.07]Now ain't that some sh*t [01:12.48]While the rich keep gettin richer [01:14.06]The poor keep dyin young [01:15.38]I can't hide no more the time has come [01:18.23]I was born in the ghetto [01:22.83] [01:24.52]Tremblin tryin' a stay alive [01:28.69] [01:29.75]Cause when you're born in the ghetto [01:33.52] [01:35.34]No one seems to hear your cry [01:39.76] [01:40.34]Brown skin [01:41.61] [01:42.18]You know I love my bra-ha-own skin [01:44.79]Everyday I'm confronted with racism [01:47.33]These motherf**kin coppers [01:48.81]Wanna bag us and have us shackled up in state prisons [01:51.65]After all the taxes I pay [01:53.65]You would think when they stop us [01:55.51]They would have something nicer to say [01:57.16]Than "get the f**k out the car where the drugs at [01:59.83]All the jewelry you wearin where the f**kin guns at [02:02.79]Once they search the car clean and find nothin [02:05.17]The same crooked cops try to act [02:07.06]Like they know us or somethin [02:08.38]Laughin tellin jokes by the thousands [02:10.74]Two seconds ago they tried to [02:12.27]Send us to the mountains [02:13.80]Leave my son without a father [02:15.44]My wife without a husband [02:16.82]The more I think about it [02:18.30]Man it's just disgusting [02:19.53]Still we live amongst 'em [02:20.81]Everybody wants out [02:21.83]That's why we rap like we got [02:23.37]Silver spoons in our mouths [02:25.10]Like we ain't grow up on welfare [02:27.21]Ni**a don't even go there [02:28.79]You probably wore Pro Players [02:30.36]We need to educate the youth [02:32.08]Tell our seeds the truth [02:33.13]Too much to share [02:34.15]The bare minimum will exceed the proof [02:35.71] [02:36.45]I was born in the ghetto [02:39.98] [02:41.90]Tremblin tryin' a stay alive [02:46.02] [02:46.79]Cause when you're born in the ghetto [02:51.02] [02:52.95]No one seems to hear your cry [02:57.13] [03:00.28]Oh yeah so much pain [03:06.17] [03:07.98]Tryin hard to stay alive stay alive [03:12.89] [03:14.32]Out in these streets oooh harmonizing [03:21.02] [03:23.52]Man sometimes in can get so tough [03:27.46] [03:28.25]Oh yeah yes it can [03:32.69] [03:33.77]Yes it can yeah [03:36.51] [03:39.71]It can get so hard so hard so hard