Is the place to find
Worst in drugs and crime
Where justice went to go blind
Spending time in the
Where preachers show the end of times
By pointing out the ghetto signs
Etched out in the chalk lines
Pick up or drop a dime
Either the way the cops are fine
Cause they be working over time
Where the streets are unkind
The residence feel confined
some say it’s just a state of mind

marked out with clear borders
crumbling brick and mortar
where the water, is colored
and cost a quarter
young runners taking orders
young gunners cause disorder
young stunna’s living shorter
cause of slaughter in the
where you boughta
a piece of pussy you ain’t oughta
and nobody taught her
leaving mothers raise the children of their daughters
far away from the reporters
with their cameras and recorders
with no supporters
crack games top importer


start school but never finish it
except for jail we don’t complete sentences
a new meaning of penmanship
the block crew has its benefits
see growth in its membership
but rico laws means nobody innocent
where hope is an invalid
and despair is so diligent
serve you your fill of it
for the thrill of it
foreigners own the business
locals take out witnesses
no peace on earth in 50 christmas’
where food stamps are collected
health is neglected
death is expected
where churches and liquor stores are erected
full of strung out and infected
where broken dreams are collected
and flaunted with a gold necklace
the police are running wreckless
you one thing on their checklist
then your suspected
get inspected
politicians say they can’t correct it
there help? dont expect it
so when they elected,
our views rejected

Kids dream of escaping it
Corporations steady raping it
We keep police taping it
Gang tags are defacing it
Gentrification is reshaping it
The rich are displacing it
Suburban kids dream of tasting it
Drug shopping, this is the place they went
Cause nicks and dimes pay the rent
America is shy in facing it
We need to start embracing it
I’m hell bent on erasing it
Cause it’s an abnormality
we’ve accepted as reality
the pain and brutality
A new sense of morality
And understanding of frugality
Could bring about a new vitality
When warring sides find neutrality
understand their commonality
ghetto is a nationality
And don’t take life so casually