Ghetto Children

We, we are the champions

We can't stop

'Cause you just can't keep them

Ruff Ryders down, down, down

By any means necessary

I'ma hold down tradition

White tee, blue jeans yeah

I fit the description

There's no restriction for the drugs in our waist

We dark, so they put the flashlight in our face

Racial profiling send me straight to the island

Hit me with the night stick

The captain start smiling

The foul smell of the ghetto will burn your nose hair

It's forbidden, so no one goes there

The struggle never stops

Till we wake up to spoiled milk

And roaches crawling out our cereal box

They feed us lies, blind our eyes

If your hand's the same color as mine, black man rise

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning

My people's been in the cage for their criminal ways

For the fact that we couldn't take minimum wage

We had stacks in the back of the building

Brothers is crooks but we still read books to the children

Now I keep my mind in the movement

Time in the movement

'Cause the ghetto needs a lot of improvement

No we gotta plan for the future and watch for the man

'Cause they don't cuff you no more

They just shoot you

Time for a new beginning

Revolution is coming

See the bullets out the ruger spinning

And we ain't gon' stand down

We gon' stand up

Black man, black power

Put your black hand up

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning

I used to wear bowties and listen to Farrakhan

Now I'm on the block like the strip is a marathon

The hood ain't been the same since Malcolm and King gone

Tales from the hood is what I sing on a rap song

Everybody petrified ever since 9/11

The hood was under attack before 9/11

Tell me how we got crack and automatic weapons

My worst nightmare is Bush getting re-elected

The jail is packed, everybody stressed out

Give me the key and I'm letting all the lifers out

So the could rebuild and work for a dollar bill

Take the shackles off ya mind

We running outta time

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning

To all my hustlers pumping cracks behind the buildings

Ghetto children this is how we living

All my gangsta soldiers in the prison

Don't worry, it's a totally new beginning