the world is a ghetto

kids is what make me feel so good

see you looking at the glory that's coming up into the future of life

see the younger youth is what's gonna make everything to keep going

after i done passed down the hill

young and black!

don't you know

that it's true

that for me

and for you

the world is a ghetto

then there's a lot of funky things in this country

and there's a lot of good things too

but there's more funky than good

we've changed some for the best

awful lot of cases for the worst

and some

they have not changed at all

walking down the street

foggy eyes

looking at the sky

starry eyes

searching for a place

weary eyes

crying in the night

teary eyes

don't you know

that it's true

that for me

and for you

the world is a ghetto

dude

we got to get our minds together!

anytime a brother was shot another brother in his own neighborhood

then go to his funeral and turn over his own casket

they need to have the police down there

cause see the niggas is n.a.a.c.p

niggas ain't actin' like colored people

if i can't work and make it

i steal and take it

they come up to me with a nigga who can put air in a bottle and sell it

he can do it man

a nigga can sell anything

as i watch the sky change colors

the rain flooded the neighborhoods of the black brothers

the black mothers are stressing

the coroners have covered

another statistic

episodes of a cold summer

the street runners got the same legs of michael johnson

the fast life surpassed life beyond the conscience

profanity in the air

the children use the content

the vanity's in the air

that louis bag: haunted

the black girl with the hair

that's kind of coarse

her baby daddy's in court

she smoking on a newport

seventeen with dreams of becoming a stripper

or becoming an aids victim while touching them zippers

the life that we living in

things we would do just to live again

how can an angel forever live in sin?

don't you know

that it's true

that for me

and for you

the world is a ghetto

you know

anybody that uses somebody else to gain is pimpin'

well

i tell you what soul brother

lookie here

can't nobody pimp you but your pimp ass self

you understand?

then there's a lot of funky things in this country

and there's a lot of good things too

but there's more funky than good

shit ain't gettin' better

we've changed some for the best

awful lot of cases for the worst

and some

they have not changed at all