Ghetto's Of The Mind (LP版)-Pete Rock/CL Smooth

[ti:Ghetto's Of The Mind] [ar:Pete Rock] [al:Mecca And The Soul Brother] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ghetto's Of The Mind (LP版) - Pete Rock/CL Smooth [00:31.40]Ghetto of the Mind [00:33.89] [00:54.57]I catch a body at a party sort of herbal with the verbal [00:56.90]Look above and see the vultures fly around in a circle [00:59.12]Baggin' while you're lollygaggin' raggin' tow-taggin' [01:01.83]Assassin with the millimeter roars of a dragon [01:04.98]Here stood the black hood thirsty for the end [01:07.51]And for the love of money kind of funny new friends [01:10.14]Public housing a thousand in a tent [01:13.06]So I'm forced to sell hell just to pay the rent [01:15.27]Killing my own people I put 'em out of order [01:17.73]Just like the liquor store scene on every corner [01:20.29]I'm trying but the kids keep crying [01:22.14]And the bullets keep flying [01:23.43]Look a boy he's on the curb just dying [01:25.76]Finally the cops come dumb to the slum [01:28.05]Pull out a gun and arrest the wrong one [01:30.62]Wax all the Puerto Ricans and blacks [01:33.00]So they can never relax [01:33.88]I dwell might as well learn the facts [01:36.02]Pete Rock and C L can radio a shack up [01:38.64]Sparking off and have 'em all calling for backup [01:40.85]"Watch another crime and you're gonna do time" [01:43.54]All this you'll find in the ghettos of the mind [01:46.51]Ain't that something [01:46.99] [02:07.14]Listen to cats and rough rats war under the window [02:08.90]When the ghetto forts flarey never was a Tom and Jerry [02:11.50]Livin' ain't cheap my survival is deep [02:14.12]In this part of town where the city never sleep [02:16.58]A Barney Miller roller you can bet the car's stolen [02:19.45]Or static with your BM only when you see them [02:22.01]Speaking on your baby's mom a best for the drama [02:24.46]Always trying to make a movie little stark-raving looney [02:26.42]Stressing it but you know the ghetto keep ya busy [02:29.51]A place that when I die it would never even miss me [02:32.83]Crack phials in the aisles as one pimp smiles [02:35.17]D**e piles working hookers by the miles [02:37.26]But still my pop's got three jobs to stable [02:39.78]A family household and food on the table [02:42.36]So as we pray for all our souls to keep [02:44.92]Somebody's on the project roof ready to leap [02:47.48]I want to stop the pain or the bad situation [02:50.04]But backwards wisdom I can't afford to give 'em [02:52.90]Self savior is much braver with the conscious behavior [02:55.06] [02:55.57]Designed in the ghettos of the mind [02:57.68] [02:58.22]Ain't that somethin' C'mon [02:58.88] [03:20.30]It's like that y'all [03:21.05] [03:28.46]I could never look forward to an early retirement [03:30.80]But still I maintain in a hostile environment [03:33.00] [03:33.74]Hustling the concrete jungle for loot [03:35.63] [03:36.23]My parents hated blood money so they gave me the boot [03:38.48]Take a risk 'cause the peer pressure has the edge [03:41.25]It was a blessing when I saw my life dangle on the ledge [03:43.73]The streets coulda swallowed me whole [03:45.78]But the pain was all gone [03:47.06]When I got to see my healthy son born [03:48.95]And now I bring him home to the ghetto [03:51.01]Only to make a stronger fellow [03:52.34]Maybe do some good for the neighborhood [03:53.85]It's hard playing hero living less than a zero [03:56.62]Raging Bull like DeNiro the modern day pharoah [03:59.20]A concentration camp with the Section 8 [04:02.22]Welfare checks given at a monthly rate [04:04.37]Apply for the get high or just plain lazy [04:07.10]Many steady collect right around the fifth baby [04:09.61]The hawk is out but the niggaz never pack it [04:12.17]A hundred dollar sneakers with the skimpy-a** jacket [04:14.60]When people are deaf dumb [04:16.38]And blind they get left behind [04:17.62]Imagine in the ghettos of the mind