Ghetto Life - The Dove Shack

[00:00.88]How do I survive each day
[00:03.71]Livin ghetto life
[00:06.55]Twist me up a fat ass J
[00:09.32]And livin indo high
[00:24.12]Can I keep my freedom
[00:25.90]At least give me that
[00:27.14]For any other come I had to use a ****** strap
[00:30.04]To get what I want in the ghetto
[00:31.88]And please, gutter for the drive-by
[00:35.58]Sucka ************* fly by
[00:37.83]But why try, to test this three five seven
[00:41.60]I know you wouldn't have catch me and my homies chillin in front of the shack
[00:46.34]See, but I'z be the ************ mack
[00:49.69]Tryna check a stack
[00:51.46]I gots a gap to watch my back
[00:53.58]And since I'm crazy
[00:55.62]That just mean no ****** won't be fade me
[00:59.53]Commin from a wicked city
[01:02.10]Long Beach, where everything gets s**tty (you know it)
[01:05.78]And ain't that a pity
[01:07.48]If you down on your luck
[01:09.62]Nobody's gon give a ****
[01:11.16]That's why I'mma always bring my ghetto life, my ghetto thing, my ghetto swing
[01:16.95]If it's lit take a hit and it's on
[01:22.43]How do I survive each day
[01:25.72]Livin ghetto life
[01:28.68]Twist me up a fat ass J
[01:31.44]And livin indo high
[01:33.75]Life in the ghetto
[01:35.23]Far from little China
[01:36.55]It's a place where the police is always down to find ya
[01:40.34]Cuz everybody in the momma snitches
[01:42.81]Brothers and ******, and sisters that's called b*****s
[01:45.68]Damn! the same people that holler out \"peace, brotha\"
[01:49.12]Will try to catch with the draws so they can **** ya
[01:52.28]Black folks in the ghetto straight ****** up
[01:54.70]And the whites on the outside bustin up
[01:57.95]Time to bust a cap in the chevrelo
[02:00.83]Whether you'z a *****, a *****, a negro
[02:03.39]If you're not a sollution you'z a problem
[02:06.66]Nine double one ain't be the only way to solve 'em
[02:09.83]Cuz it's oughter to cheese them crackers
[02:12.45]First you pimps gotta work with the jackers
[02:15.26]And both of y'all must work with the gangs and ****-dealers
[02:19.32]Cuz they'z the main ************* killers
[02:21.55]Untill then the ounces from the white devil
[02:24.17]And what's left for the blacks
[02:26.30]Life in the ghetto (in the ghetto)
[02:27.25]If it's lit take a hit and it's on
[02:32.79]Now all through high school I relied on drug-smugglin
[02:35.77]Cuz I was broke, a ***** was straight strugglin
[02:38.53]Not knowin where my next dollars comin from
[02:41.23]But I got a gun there's the double up I'mma jack one
[02:44.24]How I'mma let the fool be up when I'm on the bottom
[02:47.70]Anytime you broke a lot of friends you ain't got 'em
[02:50.64]To be a young man you got to be ready
[02:53.05]Cuz in my house there was no ****** daddy
[02:56.01]In the home, I roam with the homies from the block
[02:58.96]Experiencing, p**erty, clockin do' and passin Glocks
[03:02.13]I remember at the party the ho's didn't like me
[03:04.95]Cuz when the party was over I rolled out on my Nike's
[03:07.88]When times get rough and tough
[03:10.25]I'm gon grab that bud and take a superpuff
[03:13.20]Indo high, I replied on the bud for the pain
[03:17.07]And stayin leveled to the ground and true to the game
[03:19.89]You can't jump on my escalator if you ain't need it
[03:23.55]I'd rather pull a lick and stay weeded
[03:25.71]?? into the alley
[03:27.58]Smooth but fast now I'm headed to the shack
[03:30.52]To count yo cash
[03:33.86]If it's lit take a hit and it's on
[03:36.99] and it's on
[03:37.81]and it's on
[03:38.53] and it's on
[03:39.17] and it's on
[03:39.90]and it's on
[03:40.61] and it's on
[03:41.21] and it's on!
[03:42.67]How do I survive each day
[03:45.78]Livin ghetto life
[03:48.33]Twist me up a fat ass J
[03:51.30]And livin indo high