I'm from the ghetto where kids don't play

From the land where they use slang you won't say

City of gangstars and brotherly love

City of hustlers and suffering thugs

But there's a sign of life in our youth

They look up to the things we do

Teach them to love and we can't lose

Help them to find the right path to choose

Every day there's a struggle here

Life's a crack house socked in tears

Church a packed house covered in fear

God's love reigns down on his children

And everyday a life is thrown away

When everyday there's a life to gain

Christ accepts all sinners the same

Men and women just reaching for change

I'm from the ghetto, I'm from the gutter where it all goes down (It all goes down)

And in the ghetto is where the most high change me around (Change me around)

We've been praying and I think we see now (I think we see now)

We're gonna make it, we're gonna make it (Yeah)

I'm from the ghetto where stars are born

Record deals no sales leave young men scorned

Little women with big women bodies make them feel grown

You cast the first stone

Seventeen on the grind of formality

Cutting school, smoking weed a reality

Little babies having babies, it's so sad to see

Men and women of the church are taking back the streets

I'm from the ghetto, I'm from the gutter where it all goes down (It all goes down)

And in the ghetto is where the most high change me around (Change me around)

We've been praying and I think we see now (I think we see now)

We're gonna make it, we're gonna make it (Yeah)

I'm from the ghetto where guns are used by

Little ones that are often abused

20/20's Badlands the news consist of thugs

But Christians live here too, let's change (Yeah, yeah)

I'm from the ghetto, I'm from the gutter where it all goes down (It all goes down)

And in the ghetto is where the most high change me around (Change me around)

We've been praying and I think we see now

We're gonna make it, we're gonna make it

If I ever make it out the hood congratulate me (We're gonna make it)

Lately I've been feeling like I'm trapped here

Last year feels like the other day

And another day goes by but it's the same thing (We're gonna make it)

What can I do different, how can I make a change?

Feels like a deja vu but still I maintain

Feels like I paid my dues when I was eighteen

Would my music appeal to you if I was mainstream?