We went from ashy to classy Broke to fancy You can take a nucca out the ghetto Butchu can't take the ghetto out me Nucca All black immaculate flows Impacting culture fighting off the vultures Show you how to move in a room full of (Okay) This Ray Charles and Rick James (Bitch) Sam Cooke and Etta James James Brown and BB King All got it out a them streets From the ghetto yeah the belly of beast If you sweet get to tricking they gon beat that ass Always a preacher man with the preacher dad And my cousin know so and so So where the feature at And we don't feed the rats OGs on wax Othello legends birthed from the ghetto Rebels so iconic we get it popping If I like it then I'm gon cop it and stunt on all them They don't like me cause my hair is nappy Keep your head up hanging round by them alleys Street cats creeping like Mr O'Malley And the polices mission is to make you unhappy Shoot em down we finna light em up A mother cry's because she lost her son Another one and then another one dying by the gun In the ghetto Lowkey pimpin got the fur on the back Diamond in the back of the Cadillac Going half on a sack got to watch my back I was cutting class moving work for half Pulling up in the Jag kitty purr like cat Stay with the strap bullets fly like bats Bet that thing sing like scat scat scat Catch you lacking lil nucca make it slap slap slap And if you smoking on the tree pass the backwood back Kool-aid with the drip got the juice in the bag Nappy headed with the braids they Pray I'm set in my ways Cause self hatred pays the polices wage They say I'm wild cause my Afro shine Still screaming fuck the regime still ain't excepting defeat In the ghetto there ain't no guarantees We counting receipts don't fuck with the beast Nah They don't like me cause my hair is nappy Keep your head up hanging round by them alleys Street cats creeping like Mr O'Malley And the polices mission is to make you unhappy Shoot em down we finna light em up A mother cry's because she lost her son Another one and then another one dying by the gun In the ghetto Fuck is you talking bout bruh We done survived apartheid Segregation racism classism And every single mutha fucking ism there is You feel me bitch We out here bitch we out here They don't like me cause my hair is nappy Keep your head up hanging round by them alleys Street cats creeping like Mr O'Malley And the polices mission is to make you unhappy Shoot em down we finna light em up A mother cry's because she lost her son Another one and then another one dying by the gun In the ghetto