* originally appeared on P. Diddy's "The Saga Continues..." Yo, yeah, yo Uhh, uhh, yeah, yo Uhh, uhh, yeah, yo Uhh, uhh, G. Dep! [G. Dep] A child of the ghetto, nobody explain it to me L...

It's crazy out here (uhhhhhhh) Yo mama I'm tryin to keep my head strong (whats up Mystikal?) Uhhhhhh! (uhhhhhh) I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it Uhhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child try...

It's crazy out here (uhhhhhhh) Yo mama I'm tryin to keep my head strong (whats up Mystikal?) Uhhhhhh! (uhhhhhh) I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it Uhhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying ...

ared on P. Diddy's "The Saga Continues..." ...A child of the ghetto, nobody expl...Livin the scripture the picture they painte... snap, I'm light in the sack ...eel and that's part of the deal ...m like, Seagal with the steel but "Harder t... swing yeah back to the scene ...ate, we can wrinkle the town ...Niggaz rock the heaters, my clique ...Didn't know the blocks were where the spots would lead us...A child of the ghetto, nobody expl...Livin the scripture the picture they painte...t wasn't, it wasn't the game or the greed ...A child of the ghetto, nobody expl...Livin the scripture the picture they painte...now me they told me the game it could be - ...I take you back to the scene of the stunt ...Scene of that rhyme and you ...t boom, put shit in the air (yeah yeah yeah...lem - citizen where the kid is in gear, gua...Take you back to the 80's around ...Niggaz hit the rooftop, y'all was roofin the rocks ...tops, only youth on the block ...Skiddin - I guess the niggaz told me righ... and stack it - get the money nigga ... live, eight-six in the mix ...Eighty-seven in the kicks, eighty-eight in the whips ...Eighty-nine I had the grind, now I know i...Nine-three was the key, nine-four was ...en now I'm made out the gate ...Sit back, countin the cake, and lounge in

Fuck the whole industry you tried to get rid of me?...Aye yo fuck the whole industry come...The rhinestones in my F...Fuck bitches on the reg' with no proble...Iceberg rabbits and the fox and more...Catch me by the pool in my Tony Sta...This is the remix special deliv...Yeah G-Dep 'Child of the Ghetto'...d delivered in just the nick of time... design is rhyme in the ghettoist form...Show power the 'Child of the Ghetto' is born...Groove let the shit just spit now ...a like a hustler on the first ya need work...Stand by the grand high exalted...oor with a portrait of the raw shit...t really wanna jump the gun...In the airless flow with p...If ya want the problem we can hurr...I'ma play the courier...This is the remix special deliv...You softer than the Queen of England...Yo Murray what the deal how ya feel?... school niggas like the United Negro Colleg...This is the remix special deliv...up a second this is the remix...ou must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records...As the dumbest motherfucke...This is the remix special deliv...Child of the Ghetto special delivery

Fuck the whole industry you tried to get rid of me?...Aye yo fuck the whole industry come...The rhinestones in my F...Fuck bitches on the reg' with no proble...Iceberg rabbits and the fox and more...Catch me by the pool in my Tony Sta...This is the remix special deliv...Yeah G-Dep 'Child of the Ghetto'...d delivered in just the nick of time... design is rhyme in the ghettoist form...Show power the 'Child of the Ghetto' is born...Groove let the shit just spit now ...a like a hustler on the first ya need work...Stand by the grand high exalted...oor with a portrait of the raw shit...t really wanna jump the gun...In the airless flow with p...If ya want the problem we can hurr...I'ma play the courier...This is the remix special deliv...You softer than the Queen of England...Yo Murray what the deal how ya feel?... school niggas like the United Negro Colleg...This is the remix special deliv...up a second this is the remix...ou must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records...As the dumbest motherfucke...This is the remix special deliv...Child of the Ghetto special delivery

Singin a child of the ghetto and I'm known for b...I get the rush on the stage ...From the words I put on the page ...Lions in the cage ...onate dashin inside the ghetto maze ...Ways of the wise don't kill the messenger before the message ...heed from Philly to the Houston, Texas ...rni-A got a team in the bay L.A. ...Hot hot meet the eye of the storm in human form...Ring the alarm swarmin with ...Make the average female list...I have em by the tens of thousands lightin m...hrough me they feel the passion of my desire ...alk with my feet on the street ...The beats gonna keep my...My philosophy the block gone bleed ...But is you hearin the G-are-I double M ...Recluse the spider Grimm ...I an him the ryhmin twin shadows...The matrix is my guide ...d like them boys in the prison institution ...I love till I reach the greatest ultimatum ...But on the contrary ...n my blessings with the skills to give thes...In the Dope House you know...Everybody in the studio we puttin it...We won't quit to the day we die ... we try to abide by the rules of the game ...e when we ride fuck the bitches and the fame ...tta move over we in the fast ...na stop till we get the thousand plaques ma...they wasn't real to the heart ... true as I can from the movie screen to the rappin art ...Apart of the chosen few showin y...I have em to the tens of thousands lightin m...ough me they feelin the passion of my desire

Singin a child of the ghetto and I'm known for b...I get the rush on the stage...From the words I put on the page...Lions in the cage...onate dashin inside the ghetto maze...Ways of the wise don't kill the messenger before the message...heed from Philly to the Houston, Texas...rni-A got a team in the bay L.A....Hot hot meet the eye of the storm in human form...Ring the alarm swarmin with ...Make the average female list...I have em by the tens of thousands lightin m...hrough me they feel the passion of my desire...alk with my feet on the street...The beats gonna keep my...My philosophy the block gone bleed...But is you hearin the G-are-I double M...Recluse the spider Grimm...I an him the ryhmin twin shadows...The matrix is my guide...d like them boys in the prison institution...I love till I reach the greatest ultimatum ...But on the contrary...n my blessings with the skills to give thes...In the Dope House you know...Everybody in the studio we puttin it...We won't quit to the day we die... we try to abide by the rules of the game...e when we ride fuck the bitches and the fame...tta move over we in the fast...na stop till we get the thousand plaques ma...they wasn't real to the heart... true as I can from the movie screen to the rappin art...Apart of the chosen few showin y...I have em to the tens of thousands lightin m...ough me they feelin the passion of my desire

I was on the block right, wasn't...Movin' with the 9 double m...Forties in the fridge, chicken noodles on the table...Child of the ghetto, raised off ...If "The Price Was Right", I...gutter ways back in the gutter days...No education, but the gutter pays...From sellin' the yay', fist fights t...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never...f a block away from the cross road...I have, outgrown the fishbowl...But it's "fuck the world", like a fuck...Close line the beat tear, DB I say...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never...I ain't tryna see the grave or the penitentiary...id, but my heart in the streets... ya sign me up, get the scene right...use drivin' slow in the Lam', it doesn't se...Livin' the wrong life, but I m...All the struggling...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never

I was on the block right, wasn't...Movin' with the 9 double m...Forties in the fridge, chicken noodles on the table...Child of the ghetto, raised off ...If "The Price Was Right", I...gutter ways back in the gutter days...No education, but the gutter pays...From sellin' the yay', fist fights t...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never...f a block away from the cross road...I have, outgrown the fishbowl...But it's "fuck the world", like a fuck...Close line the beat tear, DB I say...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never...I ain't tryna see the grave or the penitentiary...id, but my heart in the streets... ya sign me up, get the scene right...use drivin' slow in the Lam', it doesn't se...Livin' the wrong life, but I m...All the struggling...Sittin' on the block and I'm doin'...Dreaming about the things that I never

uhhhhhh) I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...I'm stuck in this ghetto trying to have a li...se I'm running from the police ...seen little kids in the projects starving ...See in the ghetto the sun it barely shine... niggas in jail and the welfare lines ...ht Bill Clinton ran the country ... Bill Gates had all the money ...And the media starting east...I'm from the south, where they p...Come out of the powdered milk and e...But why the government sold us ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...That's why the rest of you niggas aint nev...How many niggas in the penn ...how many niggas in the cemetary don't know...nnocent children in the ghetto got to lose thier l...! She take you out of the street ...ass straight up off the wall ...lant my seeds, fear of high's gonna grow ...r than us, it's out of our hands ... keep my head above the water ..., trying to get out of the ghetto ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...ings, couldn't find the words to explain ...The only way to avoid s... I'm trying to make the whole world feel ...The way we express ours...But look into the eyes of a ghetto child influenced by the street ...shots, wake up from the sirens of the police ...w my life aint been the same nigga, life as...d to draw a picture of my life ...packed full of niggas who had drea... head up, to all my ghetto children it was har...Of course you gotta re...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy ...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it ...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it

uhhhhhh) I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...I'm stuck in this ghetto trying to have a li...se I'm running from the police...seen little kids in the projects starving...See in the ghetto the sun it barely shine... niggas in jail and the welfare lines...ht Bill Clinton ran the country... Bill Gates had all the money...And the media starting east...I'm from the south, where they p...Come out of the powdered milk and e...But why the government sold us ...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...That's why the rest of you niggas aint nev...How many niggas in the penn...how many niggas in the cemetary don't know...nnocent children in the ghetto got to lose thier l...! She take you out of the street...ass straight up off the wall...lant my seeds, fear of high's gonna grow...r than us, it's out of our hands... keep my head above the water..., trying to get out of the ghetto...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...ings, couldn't find the words to explain...The only way to avoid s... I'm trying to make the whole world feel...The way we express ours...But look into the eyes of a ghetto child influenced by the street...shots, wake up from the sirens of the police...w my life aint been the same nigga, life as...d to draw a picture of my life...packed full of niggas who had drea... head up, to all my ghetto children it was har...Of course you gotta re...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Uhhhhhh! This ghetto got me crazy...hhhhhh! I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it...Mamma, I'm just a ghetto child trying to make it

When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child ...Papa did the best a man could do...A child's reality is paid f...ll never know why a child is blamed ...d shamed, we're all the same ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child, yeah ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child ...When you're a ghetto child

As the snow flies ...Another little baby child is born ...In the ghetto ...In the ghetto ...The child needs a helping han...And look the other way ...As the world turns ...Plays in the street as the cold wind blows ...In the ghetto (in the ghetto) ...o he starts to roam the streets at night ...In the ghetto ...This child needs a helping han...And look the other way ...As the world turns ...Face down on the street with a gun i...In the ghetto (In the ghetto) ...Another little baby child is born ...In the ghetto x 2 (In the ghetto x 2)

As the snow flies on a col...A poor little baby child is born in the Ghetto and his mama cries ...ry mouth to feed in the ghetto ...on't you understand child needs a helping han... our heads and look the other way while the world turns ...Plays in the streets as the cold wind blows in the ghetto and his hunger burn...o he starts to roam the streets of night ...rns how to fight in the ghetto ...ight in desperation the young man breaks aw...d gathers round and the angry young man ...Paces down the street with a gun in his hand in the ghetto and as her young ma...another little baby child is born in the ghetto ...(In the ghetto, in the ghetto, in the ghetto, in the ghetto)

le girl standin' on the corner...I'm just the ghetto child...ther, she's sick in the bed almost dying...Now this is the part that move me s...ool one mornin' and the teacher, she told...I'm just the ghetto child...please, please help the ghetto child...I'm just the ghetto child

As the snow flies ...A poor little baby child is born ...In the ghetto ...In the ghetto ...The child needs a helping han...And look the other way ...Well the world turns ...Plays in the street as the cold wind blows ...In the ghetto ...o he starts to roam the streets at night ...In the ghetto ...Face down in the street with a gun i...In the ghetto ...Another little baby child is born ...In the ghetto ...In the ghetto ...In the ghetto

As the snow flies ...A poor little baby child is born in the ghetto ...ry mouth to feed in the ghetto ...This child needs a helping han... our heads and look the other way? ...And the world turns ...And the hungry little boy with the runny nose ...Plays in the streets as the cold wind blows in the ghetto ...o he starts to roam the streets at night ...The young man breaks aw...Face down in the street with a gun in his hand in the ghetto ...This child needs a helping han... our heads and look the other way? ...Another little baby child is born in the ghetto