Cham, Akon - Ghetto Story Chapter 3 (feat. Akon)(2006)

[00:04.36] Said thys is my story
[00:05.06] True ghetto story
[00:06.03] Said thys is my story
[00:08.64] Real ghetto story
[00:11.84] Hey
[00:12.42] See, I was born poor like many men who didn't have notin'
[00:15.17] Came to America trying to make sometin' outta sometin'
[00:18.28] See we Africans we love huntin'
[00:21.10] Found my way up to da top like it wasn't nothing
[00:24.04] And hooked up wit some Puerto Ricans up in Jersey
[00:26.70] We use to be call laa baw and pot see
[00:29.97] Had a lot after sometin', after union city
[00:32.76] In a couple of projects in NYC
[00:35.87] I remember those days when hell was my home
[00:38.47] When me and mama bed was a big piece a foam
[00:41.53] An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb
[00:44.50] When mama gone a work me go street go roam
[00:47.33] I remember when Danny dem tek me snow cone
[00:50.30] An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome
[00:53.22] I remember when we visit dem wid pure big stone
[00:56.13] An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome
[00:59.14] But dats no betta than to play around me
[01:02.24] And knew I kept the AK displayed around me
[01:04.91] And I moved out to da eight to find more cheese
[01:07.96] And I found out Cars make more dan weed
[01:10.88] I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown
[01:13.66] An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him dome
[01:16.89] I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone
[01:19.57] An, Mickey madda fly him out, cau she get a loan
[01:22.55] (What?)
[01:23.28] But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun Al Capone
[01:25.44] Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own
[01:28.22] Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known
[01:31.22] Yesterday Mickey call me pan mi phone
[01:33.58] Mi say Mickey
[01:34.47] Wi get di ting dem, dem outta luck now
[01:37.64] Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now
[01:40.46] (This a survival story)
[01:41.35] Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now
[01:43.34] (True ghetto story)
[01:44.10] Rah, rah, rah, rah
[01:45.66] (Said this my story)
[01:46.91] Wi get di ting dem, so dem haffi rate wi
[01:48.77] (Akon Story)
[01:49.73] Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
[01:51.68] (This is my story)
[01:52.81] And now the whole community a live greatly
[01:54.74] (Real ghetto story)
[01:55.52] Rah, rah, rah, rah
[01:57.31] Hey
[01:57.96] I remember bout '80, Jamaica explode
[02:00.46] When a Trinity and Tony Hewitt dem a run road
[02:03.45] That a long before Laing dem and even Bigga Ford
[02:06.41] When Adams dem a Corporal nuh know the road code
[02:09.37] I remember when we rob the chiney shop down the road
[02:12.22] An rumour have it sey the chiney man have a sword
[02:15.29] But we did have a one pop wey make outta board
[02:18.23] So you know the next day mama pot overload
[02:21.12] How could that be?
[02:23.87] Shop, shops in the city call me the relieve
[02:27.49] Never thought of flee
[02:30.00] Some hotter po po styll caught up wit me
[02:32.61] But then I got locked up
[02:34.52] Then while I was boxed out
[02:35.92] Broke us some locked out, then they let me out but
[02:38.81] Two Years later my brother skrew got shot up
[02:41.89] And got the whole block royal like now wat
[02:44.76] Rah
[02:45.26] Jamaica get screw, tru greed an glutton
[02:47.44] Politics manipulate and press yutes button
[02:50.31] But we rich now, so dem caan tell man notin
[02:53.17] Cuz a we a mek mama a nyaam fish an' mutton, ehh
[02:56.21] Ova dehso mek mi tell unnu some'in
[02:59.12] Tru mi dey a foreign now a guy kill me cousin
[03:01.84] An mi here sey TD deh dey but him sey he wasnt
[03:04.74] Anytime mi fly down him a get bout dozen 'cause
[03:07.71] Wi get di ting dem, dem outta luck now
[03:11.05] Mi squeeze seven and the whole a dem a duck now
[03:13.98] (This a survival story)
[03:14.63] Wi have whole heap a extra clip cau we nuh bruk now
[03:16.76] (True ghetto story)
[03:17.35] Rah, rah, rah, rah
[03:19.09] (Said this my story)
[03:20.22] Wi get di ting dem, so dem haffi rate wi
[03:22.26] (Akon Story)
[03:22.77] Cau we a tek it to them wicked of lately
[03:25.05] (This is my story)
[03:25.86] And now the whole community a live greatly
[03:27.80] (Real ghetto story)
[03:28.67] Rah, rah, rah, rah
[03:30.83] Hey
[03:31.60] I remember those days when hell was my home
[03:34.17] When me and mama bed was a big piece a foam
[03:37.25] An mi never like bathe and my hair never comb
[03:40.12] When mama gone a work me go street go roam
[03:42.90] I remember when Danny dem tek me snow cone
[03:45.85] An mek him likkle bredda dem kick up Jerome
[03:48.81] I remember when we visit dem wid pure big stone
[03:51.87] An the boy Danny pop out something weh full chrome
[03:54.71] I remember when we run, Fatta get him knee blown
[03:57.66] An mi best friend Richie get, two inna him dome
[04:00.58] I remember so the avenue tun inna warzone
[04:03.49] An' Mickey madda fly him out, cau she get a loan
[04:06.37] But, Mickey go to foreign and go tun Al Capone
[04:09.20] Mek whole heap a money and sen in our own
[04:12.33] Now a we a lock the city and, that is well known
[04:15.01] Yesterday Mickey call me pan mi phone
[04:17.22] Mi say Mickey
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