Ghetto Livin (Radio Edit) - Akon/Sheesh

Composed by：Aliaune Akon Thiam

Produced by：Akon

2 brothers born in the struggle

Drugs violence and hustling

Freestyles on prison buses

Making something outta nothing

Even though they come from

Living in the ghetto ghetto

They lock us up to keep us down the feds know

She don't make no money if her legs closed

Don't you know we come from queens and pharaohs

Outta sight and outta mind

Lil boy only 8 but he got a 9

Don't you ever think we chose poverty and crime

Blueprint from the government it's all by design

Running out of time

I ain't got no patience

Dog you either talking money or don't say

Bills due gotta help my mama pay rent

Daddy locked up ain't been the same since

Judge gave him the book he on page 10

Yeah I'm free but I'm still feeling caged in

Granny got us up in church yelling "Amen"

I just prayed for a lick so we can make ends

Lord knows I tried finna go slide right now

I ain't got so whatever they got that's mine

Really wanna cry right now

But I'm too tough to let a tear drop from my eyes

She wear her smile upside down

But he don't love her he just love what's between her thighs

Know the block hot right now

But all my custos outside so that's why

Cooking up dope in it

Killers and

Here come the 5-0 tripping

Everybody po' pimpin'

Pour up more liquor

Everybody broke in the

Ain't a lot of hope in the

Hot summers cold winters

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

Another day new homicide

Son dust new mother cries

Look her in the eyes

Technically she still alive

They buried her too when he died

Still in denial

She say it ain't real

She won't admit so she can't heal

Cop cold as ice he don't feel

Yellin' "Freeze" but he won't chill

But that's every day when surviving the slums

Call out for help ain't nobody gon' come

Seen what I saw now the trauma is done

Pills just to cope started poppin' 'em young

Gotta do better

Gotta unite because we in this together

We gotta fight won't be like this forever

I know I'm flawed just like you I ain't special

Lord knows I tried finna go slide right now

I ain't got so whatever they got that's mine

Really wanna cry right now

But I'm too tough to let a tear drop from my eyes

She wear her smile upside down

But he don't love her he just love what's between her thighs

Know the block hot right now

But all my custos outside so that's why

Cooking up dope in it

Killers and

Here come the 5-0 tripping

Everybody po' pimpin'

Pour up more liquor

Everybody broke in the

Ain't a lot of hope in the

Hot summers cold winters

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out

I might not make it out

I might not make it out

I pray I make it out

I pray I make it out